FULL VALUE ASSESSMENTS

Online formative assessments: exploring their educational value

Introduction: Online formative assessments (OFA’s) have beenincreasingly recognised in medical education as resources thatpromote self-directed learning. Formative assessments are usedto support the self-directed learning of students. Online formativeassessments have been identified to be less time consuming withautomated feedback. This pilot study aimed to determine whetherparticipation and pe...

Online formative assessments: exploring their educational value

Introduction Online formative assessments (OFA's) have been increasingly recognised in medical education as resources that promote self-directed learning. Formative assessments are used to support the self-directed learning of students. Online formative assessments have been identified to be less time consuming with automated feedback. This pilot study aimed to determine whether participation a...

Assessing the Value of Climate Assessments: Progress and Future Directions

The authors synthesize existing climate research and climate instruments, as well as introduce several frameworks to help educators understand how institutions and researchers have assessed diversity in the college environment. Over 90 instruments were reviewed and examined for their attention to multiple dimensions of the campus climate, diversity initiatives, and outcomes measures that captur...

Making Value - Added Inferences from Large - Scale Assessments

Assessments and Surveys (of Condition, Risk, Value, Etc

What distinguishes professional conservators from others who have a practical involvement with historic objects is the reflective nature of their decision-making. Decisions about practical treatments involve elements of risk: probabilities of unwanted outcomes that reduce the value of the treated object. The continuing development of conservators should be aimed at reducing the uncertainty of d...