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An Investigation Of Volunteer-Student Relationship Trajectories Within School-Based Youth Mentoring Programs, Thomas Keller, Julia Pryce
An Investigation Of Volunteer-Student Relationship Trajectories Within School-Based Youth Mentoring Programs, Thomas Keller, Julia Pryce
Julia Pryce
This prospective, mixed-method study investigates the development of school-based mentoring relationships using direct observations, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires from the perspective of mentors and students. A pattern-oriented analysis of qualitative data explores the diversity observed in the life-course of mentor-student relationships. Systematic variation in developmental trends across relationships revealed four distinctive groupings. Some relationships showed progressive improvement in strength and quality. Others started well but reached a plateau and did not become particularly close. A third group struggled throughout to make a connection. Finally, some relationships succeeded after a breakthrough to overcome their challenges. These inductively derived categories are corroborated …
Factors That Influence The Difficulty Of Problem Solving Items, Dara Ramalingam, Ray Philpot
Factors That Influence The Difficulty Of Problem Solving Items, Dara Ramalingam, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Computer-based assessment of problem solving allows problems of both static and interactive natures to be posed. Examples of static problems are scheduling and logic puzzles in which all relevant information is available to the solver at the outset. Problems of an interactive nature, on the other hand, require exploration of the situation to acquire additional knowledge needed to solve the problem. Examples include discovering how to use an unfamiliar mobile telephone or automatic vending machine. This study used data from the 2011 Field Trial of the PISA 2012 computer-based assessment of problem solving which comprised 34 static and 45 interactive …
Engineering Assessment Development Report: Ahelo Feasibility Study, Jacob Pearce, Julian Fraillon, Hamish Coates, Sarah Richardson
Engineering Assessment Development Report: Ahelo Feasibility Study, Jacob Pearce, Julian Fraillon, Hamish Coates, Sarah Richardson
Julian Fraillon
No abstract provided.
Knowledge Of Future Primary Teachers For Teaching Mathematics : An International Comparative Study, S Senk, M Tatto, M Reckase, Glenn Rowley, Ray Peck, K Bankov
Knowledge Of Future Primary Teachers For Teaching Mathematics : An International Comparative Study, S Senk, M Tatto, M Reckase, Glenn Rowley, Ray Peck, K Bankov
Ray Peck
This article reports the results of the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M) that are related to prospective primary teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics. TEDS-M was conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement with additional support from the US. National Science Foundation and the participating countries. In 2008 more than 15,000 future primary teachers, enrolled in about 450 institutions that prepare future primary teachers, were surveyed. Two domains of knowledge for teaching mathematics were assessed using items that had been developed and validated in a cross-national field trial. Large differences in …
Assessing Creative Thinking Skills - An Interdisciplinary Approach, Mark Butler
Assessing Creative Thinking Skills - An Interdisciplinary Approach, Mark Butler
Mark Butler
The Australian Council for Educational Research (A.C.E.R.) is a not-for-profit organisation that works with Australian and international governments to develop and improve learning and assessment practices. In 2012 A.C.E.R. was contracted by the Victorian government to undertake research in the assessment of critical and creative thinking skills for students aged 8 to 18. Over 300 test items were developed for this purpose and these items were used to form a developmental scale for thinking. The research highlights the how critical and creative thinking skills can be incorporated into lessons which transcend traditional subject boundaries. This presentation focuses on the process …
How Does Student Performance On Process Items Compare To That Of Knowledge Items In Science Assessments?, Ross Hudson, Stewart Monckton
How Does Student Performance On Process Items Compare To That Of Knowledge Items In Science Assessments?, Ross Hudson, Stewart Monckton
Dr Ross Hudson
No abstract provided.
Where Equity Is A Dirty Word: Contradictions In Hong Kong's Policy Of Support Measure For Ethnic And Linguistic Minority Students, J. Connelly
Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer
No abstract provided.
Trialling Of Test Items; How Reliable Is It?, Ross Hudson, Stewart Monckton
Trialling Of Test Items; How Reliable Is It?, Ross Hudson, Stewart Monckton
Dr Ross Hudson
No abstract provided.
Shifting Cultural Perspectives: Collaborative Learning For Preservice Teachers And Els, Susan Adams, Brooke Cisco
Shifting Cultural Perspectives: Collaborative Learning For Preservice Teachers And Els, Susan Adams, Brooke Cisco
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 6, 2012.
Secondary Esl Round Table: Excavating Our Common Core Subject Standards Hopes And Fears, Revealing New Literacy Possibilities For Ells, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks
Secondary Esl Round Table: Excavating Our Common Core Subject Standards Hopes And Fears, Revealing New Literacy Possibilities For Ells, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 6, 2012.
Creative Text-Based Summarization And Pre-Writing Engagements For Diverse Learners, Susan Adams
Creative Text-Based Summarization And Pre-Writing Engagements For Diverse Learners, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference, Noblesville, IN, October 13, 2012.
Research As Collaborative Act: A Latherian Approach To Collaborative Analysis Of Race-Based Professional Development With K-12 Educators, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October 19, 2012.
Demonstrating Your Library's Value: The Basics Of Library Assessment, Sonya Shepherd
Demonstrating Your Library's Value: The Basics Of Library Assessment, Sonya Shepherd
Sonya S. Gaither
No abstract provided.
What Do You Do As An Educational Leader In The Conceptual Age? Purpose Paper “Assessment: Quo Vadis?”, Gabrielle Matters
What Do You Do As An Educational Leader In The Conceptual Age? Purpose Paper “Assessment: Quo Vadis?”, Gabrielle Matters
Dr Gabrielle Matters
No abstract provided.
‘(Re-)Interpreting Redshifts: How The Fusion Of Two Traditions Transformed The Conceptual Space Of Modern Cosmology, Jacob Pearce
‘(Re-)Interpreting Redshifts: How The Fusion Of Two Traditions Transformed The Conceptual Space Of Modern Cosmology, Jacob Pearce
Dr Jacob Pearce
No abstract provided.
Naplan And My School : Shedding Some Light On A Work In Progress, Geoff Masters
Naplan And My School : Shedding Some Light On A Work In Progress, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Debate about NAPLAN and the My School website has generated plenty of heat. Geoff Masters casts some light on what is essentially a work In progress.
Pat Science : Getting Good Assessment Down Pat, Geoff Masters
Pat Science : Getting Good Assessment Down Pat, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
A new school assessment resource in science from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has just been launched, following more than two years of development and trial testing. Called PAT Science, the new addition to the Progressive Achievement Tests series complements PAT Reading and PAT Maths, which are now widely used in Australian schools. PAT Science fills an identified need for better classroom information about the progress students make in their science learning between Year 3 and Year 10. By the time they reach 15 years of age, 13 percent of Australian students are classified as 'at risk' of …
The Power To Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning And Schooling To Life, Stephanie Pace Marshall
The Power To Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning And Schooling To Life, Stephanie Pace Marshall
Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.
The Power to Transform is a call to re-conceive and re-design schooling. Rather than offer “best practices” or “prescriptive solutions,” it invites leaders of all ages and walks of life to think differently about learning and schooling. It illuminates the “why” and “what” of educational transformation and explores its deepest roots. It offers new language, new design principles, a new framework, and a new map for creating vibrant, imaginative and adaptive learning landscapes that integrate the dynamic properties of living systems with the generative principles of learning. It is from this natural integration that the new story of learning and …
Science Literacy For The 21st Century, Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A. Scheppler, Michael J. Palmisano
Science Literacy For The 21st Century, Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A. Scheppler, Michael J. Palmisano
Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.
Presents a collection of essays by prominent scientists, scholars, and educators on ways to transform science education in the United States and promote a more literate society. Edited by Marshall, Palmisano and Scheppler of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, this remarkable collection of forward-looking essays are written by such distinguished scientists and science educators as Stephen J. Gould, Howard Gardner, Lawrence M. Krauss, Mae C. Jemison, and James Trefil.
Thinking About Diagrams: A General Diagrammatic Literacy, Brad Jackel
Thinking About Diagrams: A General Diagrammatic Literacy, Brad Jackel
Dr Brad Jackel
No abstract provided.
Literacy And New Literacies Practices: Blurring The Boundaries Towards A Pedagogy Of Convergence Of Online/Offline Texts, J. Connelly
Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer
No abstract provided.
Evaluation Of Booklet Effect In Pisa Mathematics Across Countries, Luc Le
Evaluation Of Booklet Effect In Pisa Mathematics Across Countries, Luc Le
Dr Luc Tu Le
In PISA 2003, 13 main linked test booklets were constructed by item cluster rotation design. Each student was randomly assigned one of the test booklets. Each of the selected clusters was located in four of the test booklets in different positions. There were seven mathematics clusters with a total of 85 items. Booklet effect was identified and was used to adjust the measure of student performance in PISA (see PISA 2003 technical report; OECD, 2004). This study was designed to explore which factors could account for this booklet effect in mathematics across 41 PISA countries. A three-faceted partial credit model …
Secondary Esl Round Table: Excavating Our Ccss Hopes And Fears, Revealing New Literacy Possibilities For Ells, Susan Adams
Secondary Esl Round Table: Excavating Our Ccss Hopes And Fears, Revealing New Literacy Possibilities For Ells, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Literocity Conference, Indianapolis, IN, July 9, 2012.
The Comprehension Of Metaphor By Preschool Children: Implications For A Theory Of Lexicon, Barbara Pearson
The Comprehension Of Metaphor By Preschool Children: Implications For A Theory Of Lexicon, Barbara Pearson
Barbara Zurer Pearson
Comprehension of metaphor in preschoolers was studied through an elicited repetition task. Subjects were 52 children ages 3;0 to 5;2. Repetition performance on metaphors was compared to repetitions of semantically well-formed literal sentences as well as semantically anomalous sentences, all matched for length, vocabulary and sentence structure. Accuracy on literal and metaphoric stimuli were comparable and both were significantly better than performance on anomalous sentences. There were no effects for age or sex. It was shown that the metaphors were not semantically anomalous to the children and that they were processed on a par with literal language. The argument is …
Attracting Students To The Field Of Measurement, Sara Finney, Dena Pastor
Attracting Students To The Field Of Measurement, Sara Finney, Dena Pastor
Dena A Pastor
No abstract provided.
Impact Of Scaffolding Characteristics And Study Quality On Learner Outcomes In Stem Education: A Meta-Analysis, Brian Belland, Andrew Walker, M. Olsen, Heather Leary
Impact Of Scaffolding Characteristics And Study Quality On Learner Outcomes In Stem Education: A Meta-Analysis, Brian Belland, Andrew Walker, M. Olsen, Heather Leary
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
This paper employs meta-analysis to determine the impact of scaffold characteristics and study and assessment instrument quality on cognitive student outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at the K-12, college, graduate, and adult levels. Studies were coded for necessary information for effect size calculation, contextual information, threats to internal and external validity, and assessment instrument validity and reliability. Results indicate (a) scaffolding positively impacts student learning (g = 0.53), (b) studies with zero threats to internal validity had lower effect sizes than studies with two threats, (c) studies with one threat to external validity had higher effect sizes …
Teach For Australia Pathway: Evaluation Report Phase 2 Of 3, Paul R. Weldon, Phillip Mckenzie, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Kate Reid
Teach For Australia Pathway: Evaluation Report Phase 2 Of 3, Paul R. Weldon, Phillip Mckenzie, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Kate Reid
Dr Paul Weldon
No abstract provided.
From Styles Of Reasoning’ To Modes, Techniques And Objects Of Inquiry: Conferring Positivity On The Cosmos As A Whole, Jacob Pearce
From Styles Of Reasoning’ To Modes, Techniques And Objects Of Inquiry: Conferring Positivity On The Cosmos As A Whole, Jacob Pearce
Dr Jacob Pearce
No abstract provided.
Creating Conditions For Transformation Of Adult Learners, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks
Creating Conditions For Transformation Of Adult Learners, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Midwest Scholars Conference, Indianapolis, IN, March 9, 2012.
Lunchtime Talkback - Indigenous Students And Large Scale Assessments Such As Naplan: How Do We Make Sure We Get An Accurate Picture Of What Indigenous Students Know?, Chris Freeman, Frances Eveleigh
Lunchtime Talkback - Indigenous Students And Large Scale Assessments Such As Naplan: How Do We Make Sure We Get An Accurate Picture Of What Indigenous Students Know?, Chris Freeman, Frances Eveleigh
Chris Freeman
No abstract provided.