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Direct linkChau, Juliana – Language Learning Journal, 2005
TutorWhile assessment and its effects on learning such as "washback" have been the subject of much debate (e.g. Alderson & Wall, 1993; Bachman, 1995: 356; Alderson & Hamp Lyons, 1996; Shohamy "et al", 1996; Andrews "et al", 2002), assessment as a tool for developmental, not merely evaluative, purposes has…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning
Mannan, Hasheem; Summers, Jean Ann; Turnbull, Ann P.; Poston, Denise J. – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
The authors undertook a review of measures available for assessing outcomes of early childhood services for children with disabilities and their families. With principles of family-centered practice mandating the inclusion of both family and child outcome measures in effective evaluation plans, the review examined measures with established…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Quality of Life, Disabilities
Sims, Rod; Dobbs, Graeme; Hand, Tim – Distance Education, 2002
A major issue confronting educators is the extent to which they wish to conform to so-called paradigm shifts in teaching and learning. In the contemporary world of tertiary education these shifts embrace both pedagogy (from instructivist to constructivist) and technology (from classroom to online). As teachers and learners are faced with the…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Evaluation Criteria, Online Courses, Formative Evaluation
Lingard, Bob; Mills, Martin; Hayes, Debra – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
Drawing on the Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (QSRLS), this paper documents the assessment practices of about 250 Queensland primary and secondary classrooms and the extent to which they align with those pedagogical practices described as "productive pedagogies" in the research. In considering the extent of this alignment,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Student Evaluation, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
Psaromiligkos, Yannis; Retalis, Symeon – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2003
Much is unknown about the effectiveness of networked technology in education. Although a great deal of research exists dealing with the effectiveness of various types of web-based learning systems, the focal question of most evaluation studies does not concern the innovation of the delivery model itself and the factors that contribute to its…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Introductory Courses, Web Based Instruction, Computer Software
Fox-Turnbull, Wendy – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2006
Students involved in holistic technological practice need to develop an understanding of technological practice outside the classroom and to participate in tasks set as close as practicable to actual technological practice. This paper investigates the context of assessment and its relationship to achievement and the importance of teacher knowledge…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Characteristics, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Bacon, Donald R.; Anderson, Elizabeth Scott – Business Communication Quarterly, 2004
Employers consistently rank communication skills, in particular writing ability, among the most important skills for undergraduate business students to possess. However, improving writing skills, especially with respect to punctuation, grammar, and word choice, often requires substantial teacher time and effort. To assess and improve student…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Writing Improvement
Hudley, Cynthia – New Directions for Evaluation, 2006
Direct observation in natural settings has been recognized for nearly a century as an important methodology to capture the nuances of children's behavior for research, clinical assessment, and program evaluation. These ecologically valid descriptive data complement more widely used behavior rating scales to evaluate the impact of intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Evaluation, Aggression, Observation
Chard, David J.; Clarke, Ben; Baker, Scott; Otterstedt, Janet; Braun, Drew; Katz, Rachell – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2005
As recent research efforts have focused on preventing reading difficulties and enhancing the effectiveness of special education services for students with reading problems, similar efforts in mathematics have not been realized. This article describes the development and preliminary field testing of a set of measures designed to screen students in…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Predictive Validity, Field Tests, Kindergarten
Download full textDeno, S. L. – Journal of Special Education, 2003
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is an approach for assessing the growth of students in basic skills that originated uniquely in special education. A substantial research literature has developed to demonstrate that CBM can be used effectively to gather student performance data to support a wide range of educational decisions. Those decisions…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Curriculum Based Assessment, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities
Payne, Stephen L.; Kleine, Karynne L. M.; Purcell, Jim; Carter, Ginger Rudeseal – Innovative Higher Education, 2005
The authors investigated student and faculty perceptions of academic challenge at their institution, based on early administrations of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). This analysis revealed that the NSSE did not fully capture many meanings of academic challenge held by these faculty and students. This study led to a proposal for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
McGhee, Debbie E.; Lowell, Nana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
This study compares mean ratings, inter-rater reliabilities, and the factor structure of items for online and paper student-rating forms from the University of Washington's Instructional Assessment System. (Contains 3 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Factor Structure, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Test Items
Villar Angulo, Luis M.; Alegre De La Rosa, Olga M. – Higher Education in Europe, 2006
This article reports on a six-week online capacity learning and telementoring program at the Universities of the Canary Islands. Firstly, the authors give their view of online training and mentorship perspectives. They structure the argument introducing concepts about the mentor method. Simultaneously, the empirical project is illustrated with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
Welham, Nathan V.; Marriott, Gerard; Bless, Diane M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: Proteomic methodologies offer promise in elucidating the systemwide cellular and molecular processes that characterize normal and diseased thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle. This study examined methodological issues central to the application of 2-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D SDS-PAGE) to the study of…
Descriptors: Animals, Anatomy, Evaluation Methods, Cytology
Caldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
