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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Summative"”.
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Presence verification for summative e-assessments
… into online environments. The<br/>online summative assessment is a high-stake examination which counts towards a final course mark. Thus, as a result of the important consequences of such summative tests,<br/>security measures are put in place to ensure that only the ‘right’ students are …
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Summative Evaluation of Educational Television Material
The following dissertation " Summative Evaluation of Educational Television Material " consists of the following sections: Section I: Chapter 1: Introduction to the problem/task. A brief introduction to the problems of evaluation and research into educational television, with particular reference …
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Retaking Summative Assessments at the High School Level
… all students learn the state standards. Allowing summative assessment retakes was one of the methods that many teachers chose to implement in order to help students succeed in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to determine whether an association exists between whether a student …
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Summative assessment practices of Solomon Islands year nine science teachers
… they use in their science classrooms to serve a summative purpose. The study was divided into two parts. The first part involved a baseline study which explored the teachers’ existing summative assessment practices with the intent to understand how their views and knowledge of the summative …
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A Summative Evaluation of Southwest Texas State University's African-American Freshman Leadership Conference
The purpose of this investigation was to study the effects of participation in SWT's African-American Freshman Leadership Conference on the following variables: GPAs, retention rates, level of satisfaction, and the extent of involvement of African-American students who either attended or …
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A Summative Evaluation of FlightSafety International's Computer Assisted Instruction known as "Principles of Troubleshooting"
<p>The objective of this experimental research was to ascertain if cognitive skills developed by the "Principles of Troubleshooting" (POT) educational course improved aircraft fault diagnostic ability in aircraft maintenance trainees. Sixty randomly chosen Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University …
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Summative Evaluation of an Alternative Teacher Licensure Program Sponsored by a Large Suburban School Division
The number of alternative licensure programs has increased significantly over the past decade. Faced with critical shortages of public school teachers in several subject areas, the Commonwealth of Virginia first approved an alternative route to licensure in 1998. In accordance with the No Child …
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Behind the Curtain: An examination of dyslexic students’ responses to feedback on their written summative assignments
… responses to written feedback on their written summative assignments by inviting participants from a UK university to take part in Photovoice research. The insight and lived experiences of the nine participants were examined by reviewing transcripts alongside constructed images with captions to …
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The development of summative assessment literacy: An exploration of the experiences of beginner secondary science teachers in New Zealand
Summative assessment has been identified as an essential element of effective pedagogy. In the New Zealand context, secondary teachers are responsible for summative assessment within their own classrooms and for summative assessment that contributes to standards-based high stakes school leaving …
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Using data to guide curriculum development : how curriculum developers use formative and summative assessment data to inform the written curriculum
… districts in Central Texas use formative and summative assessment data to inform the written curriculum, and (b) how do commercially produced curricular programs use formative and summative assessment data to inform the written curriculum? A qualitative multiple-case study included curriculum …
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Impact of HIV and AIDS on intergenerational knowledge formation, retention and transfer and its implication for both sectoral and summative, governances in Namibia.
… the most effective ways. The thesis adopts the summative governance framework to demonstrate how our preoccupation with the quantifiable impacts shrouds our intellectual and practical ability to deal with the subtle impacts of AIDS. Governance is hypothesised to emerge amidst turbulent, …
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Understanding The Importance Of Formative Assessment Programs In Undergraduate Medical Education
… in undergraduate medical education has on summative assessment performance. Previous research has investigated the important role formative assessment has on the broad education process (Menéndez, Napa, Moreira, & Zambrano, 2019). This research study examined that role in undergraduate …
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The Effect of Nursing Faculty Presence on Students' Level of Anxiety, Self-Confidence, and Clinical Performance During a Clinical Simulation Experience
… conducted on nursing faculty presence during a summative evaluation. The faculty's decision of where to position themselves during a summative evaluation should not be based on convenience, preference, or tradition but on evidence from research. The purpose of this study, partially guided by the …
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Critical encounters: How some Japanese students understand and adapt to the practice of critique in the U.S. design studio
… their classmates. Critique can be formative or summative. In formative critiques, the instructor intervenes in the creative process, reviews drafts of work, and makes recommendations for revision. In summative crits, the instructor evaluates a finished product for a grade. The goal of a …
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Formative assessment: the effect on academic achievement and attitudes toward science
… and again at the end of the experiment. Summative test scores were also collected over the course of the investigation. The mean and standard deviation for summative test scores were compared. Analysis of the attitude surveys was done using an independent-sample t-test and a Bonferroni …
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Equitable Classroom Assessment Validity: Process or Product? A Mixed Methods Study at One Ontario College
… classroom assessment validity for one final summative assessment using validity concepts and a process that considered building assessment literacy, integrating the values of reconciliation, EDI, and sustainability. Participants included 71 students, seven faculty members, and the researcher …
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An investigation into student and teacher perceptions of, and attitudes towards, the use of information communications technologies to support digital forms of summative performance assessment in the applied information technology and engineering studies courses in Western Australia
… guidelines for educators in using ICT to support summative performance assessment. My study was part of the main research study undertaken by Edith Cowan University (ECU) and the Curriculum Council of Western Australia (CCWA) and will provides significant clarity into the implementation of ICT …
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A mixed methods study of teacher evaluation reforms and micropolitics in Illinois
… studies have shown that most teachers receive summative evaluation ratings of “satisfactory” or “excellent,” but more are underperforming than evaluation data indicate (Kraft & Gilmour, 2017). Illinois enacted education reforms known as Senate Bill 7 (SB7) and the Performance Evaluation Reform …
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Teacher Supervision Methods in Virginia
… The literature supports the use of formative and summative feedback, multiple data sources and methods, collaboration between teacher and supervisor, professional growth goals linked to school improvement, and measures of student learning.A web-based questionnaire was used to survey 229 public …
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