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Assessment Best Practices: A Review Of Current Best Practices At The Secondary And Local Level, Amanda Reed
Assessment Best Practices: A Review Of Current Best Practices At The Secondary And Local Level, Amanda Reed
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
Assessment is a critical component of being an educator. Research has shown that educators put more of their trust in their local assessments’ data, rather than that of state mandated testing. Therefore educators must be well educated on the best practices that surround assessments, in order to ensure that the data in which they are trusting is the most accurate and appropriate measure of their student’s success. This capstone project reviews the current literature surrounding such practices in order to answer the question: Is it possible to extend the knowledge of current research, to educators, through the form of a …
Assessing English Language Learners For Special Education Services, Emily Grams
Assessing English Language Learners For Special Education Services, Emily Grams
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The importance of understanding how to assess ELs for special education is a critical topic in the education field. According to Becker & Deris (2019) many school professionals lack the appropriate understanding of testing tools to properly assess and evaluate ELLs; once referred to an assessment team, the student has a greater than 50% chance of being identified as disabled. In order to better assess ELs, evaluation teams need to consider the whole student including their second language acquisition of English, culture, background, and their native language. Over the last decade, the amount of ELs and language minority students in …
Utilizing The Teaching/Learning Cycle, Assessment For Learning And Talk, Read, Talk, Write Strategies To Improve Text Cohesion And Noun Phrase Expansion: A Case Study Of A Long-Term English Language Learner, Christine Dietz
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
Commonly used EL supports, such as sentence stems may help students complete one writing task, but do not promote a deeper understanding of the language that would allow students to generalize language patterns across assignments. Through the exploration of the research questions: 1. “What instructional strategies build the metalinguistic knowledge necessary for ELLs to successfully produce and revise their writing?” 1a. “How effective is the teaching learning cycle when it is paired with Assessment for Learning Strategies ? ” 2a. “How effective is the teaching/learning cycle when it is paired with the Talk, Read, Talk, Write framework?” this case study …
Using Digital Communication Technologies To Record A Student’S Thinking During The Solving Of Physics Problems, John Gaalaas
Using Digital Communication Technologies To Record A Student’S Thinking During The Solving Of Physics Problems, John Gaalaas
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The question addressed in this project aims to develop strategies to record student thinking while solving physics problems. Literature pointed to the benefits of conversation as a form of assessment and strategies for developing good physics problems. The project demonstrates two different ways to implement the recording strategy and develops ways to assess these recordings. A slide presentation is developed for use in workshops with other physics teachers demonstrating how to put the strategies into place. Future research might involve quantitative measurement of the effects of these strategies in physics classrooms.