The Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center has for the last several years been involved in the development of an assessment system, which we call the BEAR Assessment System. The system consists of four principles, each associated with a practical “building block” [Wilson 2005] as well as an activity that helps integrate the four parts together (see the section starting on p. ...

Formative assessment is recognized as an important component of teachers’ classroom assessment strategies; recent research has pointed to peer and self-assessment as a way to operationalize the principles of formative assessment. The purpose of this study was to explore the nature and frequency of high school teachers’ use of peer and self-assessment. The results indicate that many teachers fin...

university of virginia abstract Contemporary education reforms focus on assessing teachers’ performance and developing selection mechanisms for hiring effective teachers. Tools that enable the prediction of teachers’ classroom performance promote schools’ ability to hire teachersmore likely to be successful in the classroom. In addition, these assessment tools can be used for teacher training a...

Objective To compare specificity and sensitivity of a commercially available fixed cell-based assay (F-CBA) to radioimmunoprecipitation (RIPA) for acetylcholine receptor antibody (anti-AChR) detection in myasthenia gravis (MG). Background Approximately 50% ocular 85% generalized MG are anti-AChR positive by RIPA, the current gold standard test. Clustered live (L-CBA) can detect low-affinity tha...

Background: AChR antibodies (Abs) in Myasthnia Gravis (MG) are detected approximately 50% of ocular and 85% generalized MG by the current gold standard radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA). Recently, fixed lived Cell-Based assays (L-CBA) developed. We clinically validated our in-house L-CBA detecting Ab suspected patients. Methods: Between January 2020 April 2022, we assayed 10167 sera for RIP...

This article explores the shortcomings of conventional validity theory for guiding classroom assessment practice and suggests additional theoretical resources from sociocultural theorg and hermeneutics to complement and challenge conuentionaZ theorg. T o illuminate these concerns and possibilities in a concrete context, the author uses her own classroom experience in teaching a qualitative rese...

N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune neurological disease, diagnosed by a specific autoantibody against NMDAR. Antibody testing using commercially available cell-based assays (CBA) or immunohistochemistry on rat brain tissue has proven high specificity and sensitivity. Here we compare an immunofluorescence live CBA to a flow cytometry (FACS) based assay to detect ...

The aim of the study was to perform an analysis of the emotional reactions, perception of stressful life and behavioural changes related to Haemodialysis (HD) in order to identify those variables that can improve lifestyle and the adherence to treatment. Some psychometric assessment, such as the Cognitive Behavioural Assessment, Hospital Form, (CBA-H) and the Health Survey (SF-36), which provid...