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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Approaches to Assessment"”.
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Teacher Educators' Approaches to Assessment
Teacher educators have the potential to wield tremendous influence in shaping educational reform through the education of teacher candidates. Brookhart, a leading assessment researcher, argues that a primary influence on teacher candidates’ assessment capability involves teacher educators’ …
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Assessment matters: a critical appraisal of assessment practice in higher education with a particular focus on enhancing student understanding of standards and criteria
… body of work is drawn from a wider contribution to pedagogic research and together the papers constitute a coherent programme of study. The papers trace a research journey developed over seventeen years that focuses on how assessment and feedback are both conceptualised and practised within …
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Cracking The Code: Accreditation Of Prior Experiential Learning And The Discourses Of Higher Education
This thesis seeks to examine the process of Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) in a university in the CK, in order to discover how it is working. The starting premise is that APEL generally is not fulfilling expectations in terms of either benefiting students or widening …
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The assessment of undergraduate final year projects : a study of academic professional judgment
The premise of this study is that the assessment of student performance is an interpretive process. This raises a fundamental validity question: on what basis do academic communities evaluate the soundness of their interpretations? The central problem which this study explores is how academic …
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A framework for formative assessment led learning strategies for built environment higher education
Assessment is a powerful driver of learning and lies at the heart of the learningexperience. This research explores the nature of emerging assessmentresearch in Built Environment (BE) education. In HE the investigation andexploration of assessment practices has received very little attention to …
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They're learning, I'm learning, everybody is learning: the design and use of a questionnaire to deepen an appreciation of the role of formative assessment in primary teaching
… recognizing the contribution that formative assessment can make to learning. It is largely based on Black & Wiliam's (1998) meta-analysis, which provided evidence that strengthening the practice of formative assessment raised standards and produced significant learning gains. Whether …
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An Exploration of the Interplay between Assessment and Mobile Pedagogies, in Secondary School Mathematics
… that it is becoming commonplace for individuals to use mobile technologies to support their mathematical thinking, it is non-trivial for an education system to evaluate this learning. This thesis considers what teachers perceive to be the value of engaging with student-centred mobile …
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Understanding Post-Stroke Fatigue
… is no widely accepted evidence-based method of assessment, measurement or management of fatigue. Improved knowledge of both stroke survivor and health care practitioner perspectives on post-stroke fatigue could inform care pathways. This thesis addresses four research questions 1) How is …
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Design and implementation of appreciative writing assessment in secondary English Language Arts classrooms
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore with English Language Arts (ELA) teachers how to design and implement appreciative (Bomer, 2011) approaches to writing assessment in secondary ELA classrooms. This study aimed to counter deficit (Paris, 2012; Valencia, 1997) approaches to assessment …
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Equitable Classroom Assessment Validity: Process or Product? A Mixed Methods Study at One Ontario College
Classroom assessment validity is the cornerstone to preparing grading judgments about students. To date, few studies document approaches to classroom assessment validity for college contexts. This participatory, mixed methods research study explored classroom assessment validity for one mandatory, …