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Wren, Doug; Cashwell, Amy – Educational Leadership, 2018
The author describes how Virginia Beach City Public Schools developed a performance assessment that they administer to all 4th graders, 7th graders, and high school students in the district. He describes lessons learned about creating good performance tasks and developing a successful scoring process, as well as sharing tools connected to this…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Grade 4
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Doroudi, Shayan; Holstein, Kenneth; Aleven, Vincent; Brunskill, Emma – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
How should a wide variety of educational activities be sequenced to maximize student learning? Although some experimental studies have addressed this question, educational data mining methods may be able to evaluate a wider range of possibilities and better handle many simultaneous sequencing constraints. We introduce Sequencing Constraint…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Sequential Approach, Problem Solving, Learning Processes
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van Loon-Hillen, Nelleke; van Gog, Tamara; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
A large body of research has shown that for novice learners, instruction that relies more heavily on worked examples than on problem solving, is more effective for learning as shown by higher test performance. Moreover, this beneficial effect is often obtained with less acquisition time and lower cognitive load during acquisition and test phase.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Quasiexperimental Design, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving
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Mundia, Lawrence – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2012
This mixed-methods study incorporated elements of survey, case study and action research approaches in investigating an at-risk child. Using an in-take interview, a diagnostic test, an error analysis, and a think-aloud clinical interview, the study identified the child's major presenting difficulties. These included: inability to use the four…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies, Surveys, Action Research
Sak, Ugur; Maker, C. June – International Education Journal, 2005
In this study we investigated relationships between convergent and divergent thinking with an emphasis on fluency, originality, flexibility and elaboration in the mathematical domain. A related purpose was to examine relationships between problem types in mathematical tasks. The math section of a performance-based assessment was used to assess 857…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Creative Thinking, Convergent Thinking