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2015

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Investigating The Most Appropriate Stimulus To Assess Student Ability In Writing – A Case Study Using A Criterion Referenced Marking Rubric, Chris Freeman, Jarrod Hingston, Frances Eveleigh Aug 2015

Investigating The Most Appropriate Stimulus To Assess Student Ability In Writing – A Case Study Using A Criterion Referenced Marking Rubric, Chris Freeman, Jarrod Hingston, Frances Eveleigh

Chris Freeman

This research is grounded in the theoretical framework of Criterion-Referenced Assessment and its use as a tool to identify the strengths and weaknesses of student achievement in writing.


The 'Literacy' Idea, Ross Turner Mar 2015

The 'Literacy' Idea, Ross Turner

Ross Turner

A central reason why researchers and practitioners refer to domain literacy is to draw attention to the kinds of things students learn in the domain. In a traditional learning domain the focus might be on the acquisition of discrete facts, skills and procedures that have little obvious connection or utility. In a learning domain with a literacy orientation, the focus is on applying the domain’s facts, skills and procedures to support creativity and inventiveness, to solve novel problems and to deal with the kinds of challenges that life presents outside the classroom. In the case of mathematics, for example, a …