personal experiences with assessments is an ongoing and continuous life event; every individual on earth is either assessing or being assessed in almost every interaction one can think of. Assessment is especially important in the educational commun Continue Reading...
Readability
Anyone using Microsoft Word can determine the Flesch-Kincaid readability score for their own work by doing little more than running spell-check from the top navigation bar on their computer screen. It is conceivable that the ubiquitous p Continue Reading...
6) Doiron, R. (1994). Using Nonfiction in a Read Aloud Program: Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves. The Reading Teacher, 47(8), 616-624.
This article challenges the pervasive role that fiction has played in read-aloud programs and develops a r Continue Reading...
Learning through Social interaction
What personal experiences do you have with assessments? While teaching middle school in San Diego, California, many of my colleagues, encouraged by worried administrators (who feared a loss of funds) were simply Continue Reading...
Students then move to advisory to discuss what they learned from the principal, then begins first period science class.
Science is tutorial based, but often broken up into groups of four for lab and experimentation work. Math lab includes a number Continue Reading...
Dyslexia in IrelandPurcell (2001) notes that nearly 50% of the adult population in Ireland are parents with more women working than ever before. As a result, children are provided more materially in todays Irish society compared to any other previous Continue Reading...
Millions of dollars are spent on test-prep manuals, books, computer programs and worksheets (Gluckman, 2002). Static/captive learning can help teachers around the nation prepare their students for standardized testing.
Significance of the Study to Continue Reading...