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Stein, Barry; Haynes, Ada – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Many assessment experts believe it is essential to develop faculty-driven assessment tools in order to engage faculty in meaningful assessment that can improve student learning. Tennessee Technological University (TTU) has been involved in an extended effort during the last ten years to develop, refine, and nationally disseminate an instrument to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Evaluation, College Faculty
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Jordan, Sally – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2009
Feedback on assessment tasks has an important part to play in underpinning student learning. Online assessment enables instantaneous feedback to be given so that the student can act on it immediately. However, concern has been expressed that e-assessment tasks (especially multiple-choice questions) can encourage surface-learning. Several projects…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response), Accuracy, Computer Uses in Education
Williamson, Victoria – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2006
In this article, the author compares how her pupils responded to the same task when working individually and in small groups. She wants to look at communication and the effect that increasing the opportunities for collaborative group work has had on the quality of her pupils' understanding. She became concerned that the 23 "Level D" children (age…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Individual Activities, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Willmott, Gary; King, Bruce – Distance Education, 1984
Documents some issues surrounding the development of the Grand Diploma in distance education at the South Australian College of Advanced Education and contrasts critical features of this program with that offered at the Fernuniversitat in Hagen, Federal Republic of Germany. Outlines of the two distance education courses are included. (MBR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Littlewood, William; Danli, Li – Language Awareness, 2006
This paper explores the sociolinguistic awareness in English of tertiary level students in Hong Kong and Wuhan (Mainland China). The language data consisted of specific instances when a native speaker presenter made changes, in the course of oral delivery, to the written text of a conference paper that she had prepared in advance. Matched pairs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Native Speakers
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Connor-Greene, Patricia A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2000
Describes the use of daily essay quizzes to encourage thorough preparation for class and higher level thinking. Explains a study assessing student reaction to daily quizzes, which compared anonymous student questionnaire responses from two classes: (1) a test-based class and (2) a daily quiz-based class. (CMK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Educational Benefits, Educational Strategies
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Jerome, Annamaria; Barbetta, Patricia M. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2005
An alternating treatments design with a best treatments phase was used to compare two active student response (ASR) conditions and one on-task (OT) condition on the acquisition and maintenance of social studies facts during computer-assisted instruction. Each week for six weeks, five students were provided daily computer-assisted instruction on 21…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Social Studies, Learning Disabilities
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Swain, Merrill; Lapkin, Sharon – International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
This article documents the importance of collaborative dialogue as part of the process of second language learning. The stimulus for the dialogue we discuss in this article was a reformulation of a story written collaboratively in French by Nina and Dara, two adolescent French immersion students. A sociocultural theoretical perspective informs the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Test Construction, French, Immersion Programs
Asher, Colin; Malet, Regis – Compare, 1999
Explores the views of 120 student teachers, from two higher education institutions in England and France, on their initial teacher training programs. Provides information on the reforms of initial teacher training programs in England and France. Discusses the results. (CMK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
McCann, Patrick H. – 1975
The efficiency of using games presented on the PLATO IV instructional system to provide remedial mathematics training for Basic Electricity/Electronics School trainees was tested. Two learning tasks which provide the most difficulty for students were selected and instructionally programed for the PLATO IV system. Drill and practice routines for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction
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Levy, Mike – On-Call, 1997
Explores the ways in which academic literature engages linear and nonlinear texts. Focuses on the future of the technology of the book and contrasts student experiences drawn from their insights into writing essays and constructing Web pages. Concludes that teachers and students must recognize that language learners are engaging with texts in new…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Text
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Zehr, David – Teaching of Psychology, 2000
Describes an exercise designed to encourage active learning in which groups of students compared and contrasted the content of historical introductory psychology texts with contemporary ones. Reports that student evaluations suggest the exercise helps students understand the history and development of psychology. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Course Evaluation
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Watson, Jane M.; Shaughnessy, J. Michael – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2004
This article presents two statistical tasks, one on comparing data sets, another on repeated sampling, both of which have powerful connections to proportional reasoning. Students' work and reasoning on these tasks are included, as well as suggestions for ways to use these tasks with middle school students to connect statistical thinking to…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Curriculum, Problem Solving
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Humphries, Thomas W.; Wilson, Anne Keeton – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1986
Overreliance on test-based assessment of learning disabilities can produce diagnostic results of questionable validity and prove stigmatizing for the child. An instructional-based model focuses on evaluation of the child's response to teaching. Observation and analysis of the student's reaction yeilds results that are more readily translatable…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching
Cabrillo Coll., Aptos, CA. Office of Institutional Research. – 1999
This report presents the statistical data of the 1999 issue of the Cabrillo College (California) Student Survey. The 1999 survey utilizes many of the questions in the 1995 survey, called the Campus Climate Survey, for the purpose of comparative analyses. The data listed under the 1999 column and the 1995 column are placed side by side whenever…
Descriptors: College Environment, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education
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