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A Path to Formative Assessment through Naturalistic Inputs
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Cohen, Jonathan; Leroux, Audrey – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2017
This paper reports on the development of a system in which naturalistic inputs are collected by a web-based e-reader and, in combination with a measurement of readers' comprehension of that text, are analyzed by a neural network to determine the nature of the relationship between the annotations and comprehension. Results showed that neural…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Input Output Analysis, Data Collection, Electronic Publishing
The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country. Africa Growth Initiative. Working Paper 5
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Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, Justin – Brookings Institution, 2013
Existing studies from the United States, Latin America and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya--a poor country with weak public institutions--we find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Effect Size, School Effectiveness
Reading, K-12; Language Arts K-5. Program Evaluation, 1989-90. Report No. 90-115.
Robinson, Maxine – 1990
The evaluation process and results asociated with 1989-1990 reading (kindergarten through grade 12) and language arts (kindergarten through grade 5) programs of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District are presented. The evaluation is divided into four parts: context; input; process; and product. Language arts instruction…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods