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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Alternative assessments"”.
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Alternative Assessments and English Language Enhancement: Perspectives of Saudi EFL Undergraduate Students
The current study investigates the use of alternative assessments in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in Saudi Arabia. While alternative assessments have been recently recognized as a prospective approach to assessing EFL learning, little research has examined how language learners …
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Alternative Assessments for Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities in the Areas of Reading and Writing
… the areas of reading and writing have a need for alternative assessment strategies. Alternative assessment refers to » alteration to the standard form of assessment such as examinations and/or assignments, or an alteration of the conditions related to the assessment which will accommodate the …
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Fourth and Fifth Grade Children's Understanding of Physical Activity: The Development of Three Alternative Assessments
… study was to design, pilot, and evaluate three alternative assessments that measured fourth and fifth grade student's understanding of physical activity guidelines as contained in the Surgeon General's Report (USDHHS, 1996). The alternative assessments were: 1. designing a booklet for a peer …
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The effect of alternative assessments in natural science on attitudes towards science in grade 8 girls in South Africa
… This study focused on the implementation of an alternative assessment in Natural Science in Grade 8 at an all-girls independent school. Students were given an open-ended questionnaire at the beginning and end of the school year to determine their choices for their favourite and hardest parts of …
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Investigating Burnout at a County Mental Health Agency
… further research. Factors to consider include alternative assessments to measure burnout and/or self-care and increased sample size.
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Makerspaces and academic advancement in Hamilton County secondary schools
… effects on career readiness, the development of alternative assessments, and the differential impact across diverse student populations.
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Mental Health Professsionals: Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders and Moral Development
… and with the inclusion of additional or alternative assessments related to evaluating attitudes toward sex offenders.
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An Examination of a Teacher's Use of Authentic Assessment in an Urban Middle School Setting
… learn differently. Therefore, using authentic assessments is an alternative way to measure what students know. Conventional testing also distorts educational goals. On the other hand, authentic assessment can foster good education practices and enhance the learning process (DePascale, 2011; …
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Assessment Practices Of Students With Learning Disabilities In Lebanese Private Schools: A National Survey
… though special education teachers thought that alternative assessments were important, some of their assessment practices were still imprinted with traditional methods. Product evaluation revealed that teachers and administrators' perceived impact of student assessment was positive on the …
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Judicial Review, Climate Change and Argumentation: The Case R (on the application of ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Drax Power Ltd.
… This thesis critically evaluates such alternative assessments of judicial review in the arena of climate change action. In this evaluation, it examines the critical case of R (on the application of ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Drax …
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Exploring Instructors' Classroom Test Beliefs and Behaviors in Fundamental Engineering Courses: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study
Classroom tests are a common and default form of assessments in concept-heavy, fundamental engineering courses. Tests have benefits to learning, such as the testing effect that helps with the retrieval of knowledge, but there are also disadvantages, like discouraging deep learning approaches and …
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The development and implementation of a joint management procedure for the South African pilchard and anchovy resources
… used in these simulation tests are derived from assessments of each resource, which fit models to the observations from research surveys and commercial catches using maximum likelihood estimation. Assessment results indicate adult and juvenile natural mortality values of 0.4 and 1.0.year-1 for …