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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"learning assessment"”.
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Transformative Effects of Learning & Assessment-Focused Educational Development
… development practice; I define my practice as learning&assessment-focused educational development. The inquiry maps the ways in which my early doctoral work shaped both my thinking and my practice as an educational developer eventually leading me to undertake a collaborative empirical study …
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The Benziger Early Learning Assessment Test: A Study of Predictive Validity
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Automated Multiple-Choice Question Generation and Analysis for Language Learning Assessment
… to the development and evaluation of language assessment tasks in computer-assisted language learning. It focuses on three interrelated areas: evaluating candidate responses, analysing multiple-choice reading comprehension items, and generating assessment questions. The work is situated within …
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Prior learning assessment for credit at the University of Central Missouri : a program evaluation
Institutions of higher learning have focused recruiting, retention, and persistence efforts on the "traditional" student. In doing so, the retention and persistence rates of the highest growing population in higher education (the nontraditional student) is even lower than traditional students. …
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A Phenomenological Study of Adult Learners' Experiences with the Portfolio Form of Prior Learning Assessment
… implement ways to asses and recognize the prior learning of this population as a viable reservoir of knowledge, in many cases equivalent to that acquired in college-level courses. The portfolio form of Prior Learning Assessment offers adult learners the opportunity to demonstrate their …
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Student Learning Assessment in the Social Sciences: Establishing A National Baseline for Criminal Justice Programs
This dissertation focuses on student learning outcomes assessment in criminal justice programs in American colleges and universities. Particularly, this research sought to establish a baseline understanding about how criminal justice programs are measuring student achievement toward learning …
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A Case Study of United States History Teachers in Virginia in an Era of the Standards of Learning Assessment
… a single criterion, the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) United States history assessment scores, was used to assess academic outcomes for students. Policy implementation research frequently fails to include an analysis of teaching practice. The goal of this study, then, was to explore …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Provosts in Building a Student Learning Assessment-Supportive Organizational Culture: A Multiple-Site Evaluation within the California State University System
… research on cultivating support for student learning assessment at the institutional level points to the necessary involvement of all campus stakeholders, researchers have commented on the particularly important role of institutional administrators. Most research on the role of administrators …
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Experiment centered design in a massively multiplayer online educational game
… engineering, and mathematical (STEM) subjects. Learning assessment techniques coupled with machine learning algorithms can be utilized to record student's in-game actions and formulate a model of the student's knowledge. This paper describes "Experiment Centered Assessment Design" (XCD), a …
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The Relationship Between Teachers' Perceptions Of Student Management With Out-Of-School Suspensions And High School Graduation Rates
… called the Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) survey to assess teaching conditions in eight areas to predict teacher satisfaction, employment trajectories and ultimately guide school improvement. The New Teacher Center found a correlation exists between the Managing Student …
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A Quantitative Assessment and Comparison of Conceptual Learning in Online and Classroom-Instructed Anatomy and Physiology
… equivalence of such courses to enhance student learning is necessary, especially in lab-based science courses – where research is currently lacking. This study compared conceptual learning of online and on-campus students in a two-semester anatomy and physiology course sequence. Two terms of …
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The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing
The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing concerns the Collegiate Learning Assessment+, a standardized test of collegiate learning currently being piloted at Purdue, and its potential impacts on writing programs and pedagogy. From an empirical, theoretical, and …
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Electronic Portfolio Adoption: Developing a Framework by Exploring Faculty Perspectives Through the Lens of Diffusion of Innovation Theory
… electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) to support learning, assessment, and professional development across higher education has increased in recent years. However, higher education faculty who are instrumental to successful adoption and implementation are not often invited as active participants …
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A Study Of Blended Learning At A Metropolitan Research University
… this research was to better understand blended learning at the University of Central Florida (UCF). The investigator examined blended learning from the institutional, faculty, and student perspectives in an attempt to capture the complexities of this learning environment. For the institutional …
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Elementary School Enrollment Size and the Academic Success for English Language Learners in High and Low English Learner Population Schools
… students. ESSA (2015) not only required annual assessments to ensure high level learning but also requires annual assessments for assessing ELL language acquisition. School divisions are required to monitor and report on how many ELLs made language acquisition growth and how many successfully …
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Persistence and Retention of Adult Learners: Results of a Program Evaluation of Tuition Funding Provided by Employers
… to be used for transfer credits, awarding Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) credit for college-level level knowledge and competencies at both the undergraduate and graduate-levels, increasing scholarship opportunities for Master-level students, creating articulation agreements with statewide …
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Avaliação para Aprendizagem e(m) Língua Inglesa: narrativas de professores/as do Ensino Fundamental acerca das práticas avaliativas
Assuming that assessment is a form of monitoring, this study aimed to understand how Assessment for Learning in English Language was developed in public elementary school classrooms in Salvador. A qualitative research approach was employed, grounded in Narrative Inquiry, to analyze teachers' …
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Avaliação formativa no ensino de eletroquímica: implicações do uso de atividades avaliativas como instrumento mediador
… the implications of integrating formative assessment into Electrochemistry teaching through the development and implementation of a set of original assessment activities. To this end, the theoretical principles of learning assessment were initially examined through a literature review, with …
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Variables Associated with Student Performance on SOL Tests in Virginia: A Comparison of Two Schools
… policies that address the state's Standards of Learning Objectives. Administrators and teachers continue to search for innovative ways to adapt the curriculum to guarantee individual student and school success for meeting accreditation requirements in the 2006-2007 school term. This demand for …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Building Conditions, Selected Teacher Qualifications, and Student Attendance in High and Low Performing Elementary Schools
… student percent pass rate on the Standards of Learning assessment. This evaluation may result in schools being categorized as either low or high performing. The major difference between the two categories is obviously student academic performance, but there may be other differences in the …
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