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Full-Text Articles in Education
Where Do I Start?, Andrea Crystelle, Lori Schultz
Where Do I Start?, Andrea Crystelle, Lori Schultz
Research Analytics Summit 2024
In this session, we will start at the beginning and talk about what you need to think about in setting up research analytics capabilities for your organization. There are so many options for tools and other resources to get started, but what if you only have Excel? How do you get reporting off the ground when it hasn’t been done (or done consistently) at your workplace? We’ll talk about ways to get started, including who you need to talk with, what you need to consider, and how to move forward with basic reporting.
Undoing The Traditions Of Grading And Reporting, Thomas R. Guskey
Undoing The Traditions Of Grading And Reporting, Thomas R. Guskey
Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications
One silver lining from the ongoing public health crisis might be the lasting impact of two modified approaches to grading and reporting of the past year.
Learning From Failures: Lessons From Unsuccessful Grading Reform Initiatives, Thomas R. Guskey
Learning From Failures: Lessons From Unsuccessful Grading Reform Initiatives, Thomas R. Guskey
Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications
This article describes accounts of grading reform initiatives that while well-intentioned, met with staunch opposition and eventually were abandoned. The implementation strategies employed by the leaders of these reform initiative are explored, along with reasons these strategies failed to result in meaningful and enduring change. Alternative grading reform strategies with supporting evidence are offered, justification for their use explained, and new directions for grading reform initiatives recommended.
Lifting Achievement Levels And Improving The Return On Australia’S Investment In Schooling : Submission To The Review To Achieve Educational Excellence In Australian Schools (Chair: Mr David Gonski), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)
Lifting Achievement Levels And Improving The Return On Australia’S Investment In Schooling : Submission To The Review To Achieve Educational Excellence In Australian Schools (Chair: Mr David Gonski), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)
Program monitoring and evaluation
Many students in our schools are not learning as well as they could because they are not being given learning opportunities at an appropriate level of challenge. Instead, students are grouped by year level (age) and teachers deliver curricula assumed to be appropriate for all students in the same year of school. However, the most advanced ten per cent of students in any year of school are five to six years ahead of the least advanced ten per cent. For less advanced students, the year-level curriculum is often too far ahead. Many are judged to be underperforming year after year, …
Torch : Tests Of Reading Comprehension, Leila Mossenson, Andrew Stephanou, Margaret Forster, Geoff Masters, Margaret Mcgregor, Prue Anderson, Peter Hill
Torch : Tests Of Reading Comprehension, Leila Mossenson, Andrew Stephanou, Margaret Forster, Geoff Masters, Margaret Mcgregor, Prue Anderson, Peter Hill
Prue Anderson
This set of twelve reading tests is designed to assist teachers of students from Year 3 to Year 10 in their assessment of students' reading comprehension skills. Each of the twelve reading tests consists of a reading passage and a corresponding answer sheet.
Torch : Tests Of Reading Comprehension, Leila Mossenson, Andrew Stephanou, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Mcgregor, Prue Anderson, Peter Hill
Torch : Tests Of Reading Comprehension, Leila Mossenson, Andrew Stephanou, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Mcgregor, Prue Anderson, Peter Hill
Prof Geoff Masters AO
This set of twelve reading tests is designed to assist teachers of students from Year 3 to Year 10 in their assessment of students' reading comprehension skills. Each of the twelve reading tests consists of a reading passage and a corresponding answer sheet.
Why A To E Grades Paint The Wrong Picture, Geoff Masters
Why A To E Grades Paint The Wrong Picture, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Geoff Masters makes the case for a new approach to assessment so that teachers can better monitor the progress their students make and the effectiveness of their own teaching.
Interpreting Data: Where’S The Evidence?, Katherine Dix
Interpreting Data: Where’S The Evidence?, Katherine Dix
Dr Katherine Dix
Measuring Progress, Geoff Masters
Measuring Progress, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Geoff Masters discusses the need for a system of educational assessment that provides long-term pictures of student progress.
Education Assessment In The 21st Century, Geoff Masters
Education Assessment In The 21st Century, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The author argues that there is a need for significant reform in educational assessment. Instead of judging student success only in terms of year-level expectations, assessment needs to recognise the progress that all students can make in their learning, regardless of students' starting points.
Grading And Reporting Purposes And Practices In Catholic Secondary Schools And Grades' Efficacy In Accurately Communicating Student Learning, Peter Imperial
Grading And Reporting Purposes And Practices In Catholic Secondary Schools And Grades' Efficacy In Accurately Communicating Student Learning, Peter Imperial
Doctoral Dissertations
Few aspects of school are as controversial as the practice of grading, for grades affect students' educational opportunities. The purpose of this study was to identify the practices Catholic high-school teachers employed in determining students' grades. The study investigated the extent to which academic achievement comprised the grades teachers reported, and the extent to which teachers' practices are consistent with their expressed purposes for grading. The study also explored the extent to which Catholic teachers' grading practices are consistent with their schools' purpose for grading. Using random sampling, 486 Catholic secondary school teachers and 50 administrators from 33 high schools …
Repurposing Learning Objects As Assessment Instruments, S Atkins, Gayl O'Connor
Repurposing Learning Objects As Assessment Instruments, S Atkins, Gayl O'Connor
Gayl O'Connor
No abstract provided.
Assessing Assessment: What Is Being Assessed? So What? And Then What?, K Rowe, Andrew Stephanou
Assessing Assessment: What Is Being Assessed? So What? And Then What?, K Rowe, Andrew Stephanou
Dr Andrew Stephanou
No abstract provided.
Performance Feedback To Schools Of Students’ Year 12 Assessments : The Vce Data Project, Ross Turner, Ken Rowe, K Lane
Performance Feedback To Schools Of Students’ Year 12 Assessments : The Vce Data Project, Ross Turner, Ken Rowe, K Lane
Ross Turner