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Nicholas, Erika L. – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2017
This piece focuses on increasing writing instruction for secondary English teacher candidates in the form of integrating reading and writing. Often, teacher candidates are not sufficiently prepared in university coursework to teach writing and are left to rely on formulaic writing that merely prepares their students for the end-of-year tests.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Berrett, Dan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
As pressure mounts on colleges to document what their students learn, it remains tough to judge from outside the classroom how much knowledge they gain from their academic experience. The traditional measure of learning is the course grade. Nothing says academic success more succinctly than an A. Alternative methods to document learning have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Standardized Tests
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Nicholas, Mark C.; Labig, Chalmer E., Jr. – Journal of General Education, 2013
An analysis of interviews, focus-group discussions, assessment instruments, and assignment prompts revealed that within general education, faculty assessed critical thinking as faceted using methods and criteria that varied epistemically across disciplines. Faculty approaches were misaligned with discipline-general institutional approaches.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Critical Thinking, Interviews, Focus Groups
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Hathcoat, John D.; Penn, Jeremy D. – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2012
Critics of standardized testing have recommended replacing standardized tests with more authentic assessment measures, such as classroom assignments, projects, or portfolios rated by a panel of raters using common rubrics. Little research has examined the consistency of scores across multiple authentic assignments or the implications of this…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Performance Based Assessment, Writing Across the Curriculum, Standardized Tests