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Full-Text Articles in Curriculum and Instruction
Teacher Candidate Success On State Mandated Professional Tests: One Predictive Measure, Connie Mcdonald, Jill Jones, Annyce Maddox, Steven Mcdonald
Teacher Candidate Success On State Mandated Professional Tests: One Predictive Measure, Connie Mcdonald, Jill Jones, Annyce Maddox, Steven Mcdonald
Steven McDonald
This article presents a predictive model using teacher candidates' Grade Point Average (GPA) and its relationship to success on two professional state mandated teaching exams, the Virginia Communication Literacy Assessment (VCLA) and Virginia Reading Assessment (VRA).
Cross-Cultural Moral Explorations In Plagiarism, Bradley Baurain
Cross-Cultural Moral Explorations In Plagiarism, Bradley Baurain
Bradley Baurain
No abstract provided.
Morality, Relationality, And Listening Pedagogy In Language Education, Bradley Baurain
Morality, Relationality, And Listening Pedagogy In Language Education, Bradley Baurain
Bradley Baurain
Listening pedagogy in language education treats listening proficiency almost exclusively as a function or skill, the purpose of which is to generate products or outcomes desired by language users. Though listening is rhetorically acknowledged to be an active and complex process of making meanings within contexts and relationships, in practice teacher education and pedagogical discourse treat listening simply as a linguistic transaction and listening pedagogy as a technical and instrumental process of skill building, with the goal of enabling learners fluently to perform such transactions. Such a means-to-ends orientation, however, is inadequate or insufficient to encompass holistic moral and relational …
Queensland Teachers’ Conceptions Of Assessment: The Impact Of Policy Priorities On Teacher Attitudes, Gavin Brown, Robert Lake, Gabrielle Matters
Queensland Teachers’ Conceptions Of Assessment: The Impact Of Policy Priorities On Teacher Attitudes, Gavin Brown, Robert Lake, Gabrielle Matters
Dr Gabrielle Matters
The conceptions Queensland teachers have about assessment purposes were surveyed in 2003 with an abridged version of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Inventory. Multi-group analysis found that a model with four factors, somewhat different in structure to previous studies, was statistically different between Queensland primary and (lower) secondary teachers. Primary teachers agreed more than secondary teachers that ‘assessment improves teaching and learning’, while the latter agreed more that it ‘makes students accountable’. The inter-correlation of ‘assessment is irrelevant’ to ‘makes students accountable’ was statistically stronger for primary teachers. Teacher beliefs reflected the differing practices of assessment by level of schooling.
Voices, Identities, Negotiations, And Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures, Bradley Baurain, Ha Phan
Voices, Identities, Negotiations, And Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures, Bradley Baurain, Ha Phan
Bradley Baurain
No abstract provided.