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Gillis, Shelley; Griffin, Patrick – International Journal of Training Research, 2005
To help achieve national consistency of assessment and reporting in the Australian Vocational Education and Training sector, there is a need to develop a set of national principles for graded performance assessment. This paper challenges a number of prevailing principles from both a theoretical and assessment perspective, namely that grades must…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Vocational Education, Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Papousek, Ilona; Schulter, Gunter – Brain and Cognition, 2004
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether verbal fluency tasks may specifically induce relatively greater left than right hemispheric activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The effectiveness of the manipulation was evaluated by EEG, which was recorded during performance of the verbal fluency task and during two control…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Arithmetic
Gelfer, Jeffery I.; Xu, Yaoying; Perkins, Peggy G. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2004
One goal of the teacher's professional portfolio is to describe the full range of abilities and document effective teaching over an extended period of time. In this article we discuss the procedure that teachers can use in developing their own portfolio assessment to help generate data for making decisions about teaching performance. The…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Early Childhood Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Magliaro, Susan G.; Lockee, Barbara B.; Burton, John K. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2005
Rooted in behavioral theory, particularly the radical or selectivist behaviorism of B.F. Skinner (1953, 1954, 1966, 1968, 1974), the direct instruction (DI) approach to teaching is now well into its third decade of influencing curriculum, instruction, and research. It is also in its third decade of controversy. Our purpose is to present the DI…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
Trohler, Daniel – Educational Theory, 2006
Pragmatism has been rediscovered in recent years and presented as emblematic of modern thinking. At the center of this worldwide interest in late-nineteenth century Pragmatism stood, first, a rejection of the traditional dualistic construction of the world in philosophy and psychology; second, a distinguishing of the findings of learning theory…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Educational Philosophy, Learning Theories, Performance Based Assessment
Noonan, Brian; Renihan, Patrick – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2006
In a climate of accountability, the development of "assessment literacy" among school professionals has become critical to school success. The provision of "assessment leadership" is viewed as the means by which such literacy can be enhanced. The writers examine the conditions under which student achievement gains can be…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Role, Achievement Gains
Gumbus, Andra – Journal of Management Education, 2005
This experiential exercise presents the concept of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and applies it in a university setting. The Balanced Scorecard was developed 12 years ago and has grown in popularity and is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500 companies as a performance measurement and strategic management tool. The BSC expands the traditional…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Measurement, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Gulikers, Judith; Bastiaens, Theo; Kirschner, Paul – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
This study focused on determining the facets of assessment authenticity by exploring the perceptions of both students and teachers of vocational education and training. It elaborates on a theoretical five-dimensional framework (5DF) that differentiates between five dimensions and several sub-elements of authenticity. This framework led to the…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Vocational Education, Readability, Factor Analysis
Silvestri, Lynette; Oescher, Jeffrey – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2006
This study examined the use of rubrics in scoring a performance-based assessment. After receiving a health lesson of ways to have a healthy brain, fifth grade students were given an assignment to illustrate and write a booklet that demonstrated their knowledge of the topic. From students' responses the researchers constructed four sample papers…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Achievement Tests, Brain, Grade 5
Thilakaratne, Ruffina; Kvan, Thomas – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
This paper investigates the appropriateness of competence-based assessment in professional education validation, considering architectural education in Asia as a case study. Competence-based assessment originated in teacher training and vocational training settings in the USA and the UK. Competence-based assessment has been increasingly adopted by…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Architecture, Vocational Education
Barragues, J. I.; Guisasola, J.; Morais, A. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 2006
The great interest aroused by the incorporation of Statistics and Probability into curricular projects has been accompanied by considerable evidence of significant difficulties in the meaningful learning and application of the concepts. These difficulties have been the subject of many studies, mostly concerning secondary school students. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Introductory Courses, Engineering
Choy, Sarojni – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
In 2004 the Australian Flexible Learning Framework developed a suite of quantitative and qualitative indicators on the uptake, use and impact of e-learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. These indicators were used to design items for a survey to gather quantitative data for benchmarking. A series of four surveys gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Electronic Learning, Benchmarking
Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Program: Year One Evaluation Report. Policy Evaluation Report
Springer, Matthew G.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Lopez, Omar S.; Patterson, Christine H.; Stecher, Brian M.; Taylor, Lori L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
This report presents findings stemming from the first-year evaluation of the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas. In June 2006, Governor Perry and the 79th Texas Legislature created the Governor's Educator Excellence Award Program, one component of which is the TEEG…
Descriptors: Program Design, Incentives, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
Khalil, Mohammed K.; Paas, Fred; Johnson, Tristan E.; Su, Yung K.; Payer, Andrew F. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
This research is an effort to best utilize the interactive anatomical images for instructional purposes based on cognitive load theory. Three studies explored the differential effects of three computer-based instructional strategies that use anatomical cross-sections to enhance the interpretation of radiological images. These strategies include:…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Control Groups, Medical Students, Cognitive Style

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