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The Contribution Of Iea Research Studies To Australian Education, John Ainley, John Keeves, Jan Lokan, Petra Lietz, Geoff Masters, Sue Thomson
The Contribution Of Iea Research Studies To Australian Education, John Ainley, John Keeves, Jan Lokan, Petra Lietz, Geoff Masters, Sue Thomson
Prof Geoff Masters AO
This chapter is concerned with the contribution of the research studies conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) to Australian education. During a period of 50 years education across the world has undergone a remarkable transformation. Many of the changes that have occurred have been initiated by the United Nations Organization and its agen¬cies, particularly UNESCO. From its origins within the UNESCO Institute in Hamburg, IEA and its programs have evolved to develop the worldwide conduct of research in education both through the undertaking and reporting of studies as well as the informal training of …
How To Make Teaching Of Statistics More Effective In Business Schools?, Kuldeep Kumar
How To Make Teaching Of Statistics More Effective In Business Schools?, Kuldeep Kumar
Kuldeep Kumar
Statistics is taught in almost all Business Schools as a core course and prerequisite to may advance economics, finance and accountancy courses. However, Statistics has to be taught in a different way in Business Schools as compared to how it is taught in their own statistics department. There should be more emphasis on applications in Business area rather than theory. There has been lot of interest in teaching of statistics in Business schools for a very long time, for example see Cox (1965), Moore (1976) and Love and Hildebrand (2002). This paper discusses author's experience of teaching statistics in an …
Which Form Of Assessment In A Chemistry Examination Best Describes Student Understanding?, Ross Hudson
Which Form Of Assessment In A Chemistry Examination Best Describes Student Understanding?, Ross Hudson
Dr Ross Hudson
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Assess Without Distress, Susan Adams, Trish Mullaney
Assess Without Distress, Susan Adams, Trish Mullaney
Susan Adams
Workshop presented at the 2011 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 16-19, 2011.