997 Search Results for The Differences Between Assessments and Testing in Education
CyborgED:
Hybrid Pedagogy and Student performance
Harkening to the roots of educational episteme, in What Does it Mean to be educated, John Spayde (2010), addresses the convergence of knowledge formation in late-capitalism from the position of a So Continue Reading...
Early Childhood
Norm-referenced vs. criterion-referenced test
A norm-referenced test is an assessment that usually brings out an estimate of the position of the person who is being tested in a population that is predefined with the focus being the Continue Reading...
Organizational Health
Educational institutions generally approach organizational improvement by addressing the performance standards to which students, educators, and administrators are held. The standards movement has been a dominant theme in educa Continue Reading...
MCG
Explain the OSI reference model and TCP/IP protocol architecture.
The Open Systems Interconnection reference model is made up of seven layers to establish reliable communication between nodes. The first layer, the physical layer, controls how t Continue Reading...
The advantages of the PPVT-III are that it provides a quick estimate of the individua;'s verbal intelligence and can be administered to groups with reading problems or cognitive developmental issues. Because the individual may either speak or point Continue Reading...
For countries such as the U.S. And France, these needs can be reasonably expected to relate to the respective national cultures involved. For instance, in their book, Education in France, Corbett and Moon (1996) report, "An education system needs to Continue Reading...
This study also aims at showing the declining attributes of those faced with the unfortunate fate of receiving a poor education. By tracking individual's professional and academic experiences after high school, results should portray a dim picture Continue Reading...
Figure 2: "Information System for Geography" (GIS)
2. The Map View: A GIS consists of a set of intelligent maps and other views depicting features and feature relationships on the earth's surface. Students can use GIS to support their queries, mak Continue Reading...
By making students familiar and comfortable with authorities outside of their home environments, students are more prepared to meet the educational challenges of the classroom, to receive a greater exposure to the language of classroom instruction, Continue Reading...
462). The pattern of adjusting to the feelings and needs of the advisor rather than the advisor adjusting to meet the needs of the advisee is seen repeatedly in the different types of relationships between women who are pursuing doctoral studies on Continue Reading...
Role of Testing and Assessment in EducationTesting and assessment are needed in education because they serve as a way to gauge student learning and progress. The main objective is to gather data that can inform teachers about what they need to do bas Continue Reading...
MILITARY DEPLOYED PARENT PERCEPTIONS OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDYbyEder G. BennettLiberty UniversityA Dissertation Presented in Partial FulfillmentOf the Requirements for the DegreeDoctor of EducationLib Continue Reading...
Investigating Student Understanding:
Year 3 Students’ Understanding of the Step-Over Skill in a Football (Soccer) Focused PE Lesson in an International School
Introduction
Background
Within the PE curriculum, basic skills to practice in a varie Continue Reading...
Vaismoradi, 2013)
Qualitative thematic and content analyses represent two widely utilized nursing data analysis techniques. However, no explicit boundaries have been identified between them. That is, researchers utilize them interchangeably and, ap Continue Reading...
Memory Recall
Author(s) First, Middle Initial (if applicable) and Last Name(s) in Starting with the Individual who Made the Biggest Contribution (not alphabetical)
This study examines the difference that categorization makes in memory recall exerci Continue Reading...
Validating Qualitative Data
Dissimilar to quantitative research, establishing or ensuring validity and reliability in qualitative research can be a difficult task. This is mainly because of the inherent differences between the two types of research Continue Reading...
Thus, we assume that children gifted in the arts are every bit as intellectually endowed as those with academic gifts.
The relationships among giftedness, talent development, and creativity are challenging areas of research. Because researchers lac Continue Reading...
Vaughn et al. (2003) report that the identification of LD students has increased upwards of 200% since 1977, with explanations ranging from a likely outcome of the growing knowledge field, to LD as a field serving as a sink for the failures of gene Continue Reading...
OCR recognizes that colleges and universities are under a lot of legal and political pressure to stop using racial and ethnic factors in admission," Clegg commented. "[In response,] the agency wants to intimidate colleges and universities to contin Continue Reading...
This view is reflected in increasing calls for financial equity among schools, desegregation, mainstreaming, and standardized testing for teachers and students alike; it has been maintained that by providing the same education to all students, schoo Continue Reading...
Class Assessment Techniques
Classroom Assessment Techniques are decisive methods of evaluation that are useful in two major areas. The level of which the student has understood the content of the course can be assessed and provides information reg Continue Reading...
The study had two central purposes:
1. To identify reform-related practices in mathematics instruction that have increased, decreased, or not changed since the implementation of high-stakes testing, based on educators' perceptions.
2. To determine Continue Reading...
For the purposes of this review, Web-based instruction is considered to be any educational or training program distributed over the Internet or an intranet and conveyed through a browser, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. Java applet Continue Reading...
That responsibility is of the school -- to ensure that the adult citizens so needed by contemporary society are produced by the school system -- those individuals being responsible for their views and able to analyze and synergize information so the Continue Reading...
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Abdal-Haqq, I. (1995, June). Professional standards development: Teacher involvement. Retrieved July 28, 2009, from ERIC Digests - ED383693: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/fd/a6.p Continue Reading...
The achievement gap also may ultimately negatively affect the U.S. As it may cause the nation to become less competitive in the increasingly global communities (What is the…, 2009). In addition, research indicates that the achievement gap cont Continue Reading...
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This perception alludes to a certain inflexibility which might be fundamentally obscuring of real performance values and indicators.
The same may be said of 'testing,' if we are to leave this concept to stand on its own. While many educators are Continue Reading...
construction of created rubrics of checklists of goals have become increasingly popular as a way of rending the educational process more effective and efficient. Student-directed assessment involves students actively in the process of assessment and Continue Reading...
Web Technology
Effective Teaching
Extant literature has attempted to explore the concept of an effective teacher. The question of what constitutes an effective teacher is one that is asked by several stakeholders in the educational sector. Accordin Continue Reading...
PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING African-American STUDENTS
PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING
African-American STUDENTS
"They never want to hear what I have to say…it doesn't matter who started a fight, or what a teacher said to you that made you ma Continue Reading...
Free access for students and teachers will be available at school and home at any time (Charp, 2002, p. 10).
Schools have also been helped by funding from corporations of various types, many of which see the need for a workforce in the future that Continue Reading...
Democracy, Multiple Intelligence, Art
Project Site and Participants
The project that this research is based on took place at Pantera Elementary School in Diamond Bar, California. The school population comprises approximately 200 students and twelve Continue Reading...
However, according to Johnson, Christie, and Yawkey, (1999), "play is an extremely difficult concept to define -- there are 116 distinct definitions listed in the Oxford English Dictionary!"
Some adults think play is trivial while others believe pl Continue Reading...
Gokhale, a. (1995). Collaborative Learning Enhancing Critical Thinking. Journal of Technology Education, 7, 22 -- 31.
In the article titled, Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking, the authors are seeking to understand the true effect t Continue Reading...
21-32; Lyster et al., 1999, pg. 457-467). Chaudron (1986, pg. 64-84) explained that the error correction exercise might not have statistical backup on its constrictive impact but nonetheless has proven to have a beneficial impact on the overall comm Continue Reading...
Possible mistakes in program and the methods used to solve them.
During the developemnrt of the project the developer met set of mistakes, that were fixed. They refer to different aspects of program development:
1) While working with real variabl Continue Reading...
Using this index, XP outperformed Windows 7 in almost every category. This test found that XP would be better for running games, but the author noted that newer games that require DirectX 10 or 11 will not run on XP.
Of course, some newer software Continue Reading...