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Jönsson, Anders; Balan, Andreia; Hartell, Eva – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
In Sweden, grades are used for selection to upper-secondary school and higher education, even though agreement in teachers' grading is low and the selection therefore potentially unfair. Furthermore, measures taken to increase the agreement have not been successful. This study has explored how to increase agreement in teachers' grading by…
Descriptors: Grading, Grades (Scholastic), Alignment (Education), Summative Evaluation
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Van Havere, Timo; Wils, Kaat; Depaepe, Fien; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Nieuwenhuyse, Karel – London Review of Education, 2017
Since the early nineteenth century, western governments have expected history education to play a vital role in the formation of a national identity and the pursuit of national cohesion, by fostering shared knowledge and a shared (master)narrative of the national past. This article reports on a qualitative study that examines which narratives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, European History, History Instruction, Secondary Education
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Yung, Kevin Wai-Ho; Fong, Natalie – ELT Journal, 2019
This study focuses on the perceptions of learning EAP of first-year undergraduates with high ESL proficiency admitted to an English-medium university in Hong Kong. Two in-depth individual interviews were conducted with nine participants and their written assignments were analysed. The data reveal several challenges facing the high achievers in…
Descriptors: High Achievement, English for Academic Purposes, Language of Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Skaftun, Atle; Igland, Mari-Ann; Husebø, Dag; Nome, Sture; Nygard, Arne Olav – Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
This socio-culturally informed qualitative study examines digitalised classrooms in Norwegian secondary schools, with a focus on the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and dialogic aspects of literacy practices. In the article, we foreground two cases: one on the use of digital mind maps and one on a writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Qualitative Research
Soiferman, Lisa Karen – Online Submission, 2017
The importance of direct explicit instruction in secondary schools has been shown to improve student learning outcomes across the curriculum. The question then becomes one of whether adapting direct explicit instruction in post-secondary institutions would have the same impact on student grades. Graham and Perin (2007) identified eleven elements…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Writing Strategies
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Lauren Esposito – English Journal, 2016
Whether novice or experienced, writers must come to terms with the daunting task of filling up a blank page, or screen, in an effort to produce writing. Student writers are no different. They enter teachers' classes having confronted similar difficulties with discovering what it is they want to say. In seeking to help students, they devote…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Creative Activities, Prewriting, Writing Instruction