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Optimalisation Of E-Resources From National Library And Online Information Of Covid-19 To Develop Literacy And Numeracy Test Like Pisa, Nadi Suprapto, Binar K. Prahani, Utama A. Deta Feb 2022

Optimalisation Of E-Resources From National Library And Online Information Of Covid-19 To Develop Literacy And Numeracy Test Like Pisa, Nadi Suprapto, Binar K. Prahani, Utama A. Deta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

By utilising the online information of Covid-19 from e-resources including the national library and online information, the development of literacy and numeracy item test called PISA-Cosains (science context of Covid-19) was carried out. The process was oriented to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) science framework that has been carried out to produce an instrument product that is valid and practical. The method used in this study is the Research and Development method. The analysis in this study uses Rasch's Item Response Theory (IRT) model. The development process utilises e-resources from national library and online portal of Indonesian …


Nebraska Reading First Final Report, Guy Trainin, Kathryn Ac Wilson Oct 2010

Nebraska Reading First Final Report, Guy Trainin, Kathryn Ac Wilson

Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design

Reading First has been implemented in Nebraska since the 2004-5 academic year. In two rounds of funding and participation, schools have transformed the way they trained their teachers, measured student progress, and taught. This transformation is one of the hardest tasks in education and it has taken the considerable dedication of school personnel as well as dedicated leaders from the Nebraska Department of education. The program has seen great success in increasing the proportion of students acquiring basic literacy skills of phonemic awareness, decoding, and oral reading fluency. That initial success has led to an increase in outcomes even for …