The purpose of this article is to describe the process and procedures involved in the implementation of portfolio assessment at two dental schools. Portfolios can be defined as a purposeful collection of student work that involves reflection in which students identify gaps in their knowledge and abilities and develop strategies for correcting those gaps. Framed within the current context of den...

Investors use different approaches to select optimal portfolio. so, Optimal investment choices according to return can be interpreted in different models. The traditional approach to allocate portfolio selection called a mean - variance explains. Another approach is Markov chain. Markov chain is a random process without memory. This means that the conditional probability distribution of the nex...

Using a Web-based portfolio assessment system to elevate project-based learning performances Chi-Cheng Chang a & Kuo-Hung Tseng b a Department of Industrial Technology Education, National Taiwan Normal University, No. 162, Section 1, He-Ping E. Road, Taipei, Taiwan, 106 b Graduate Institute of Business Management, Meiho Institute of Technology, No. 23, Ping Kuang Road, Neipu Hsiang, Pingtung, T...

Alternative assessments have evolved from an epistemological change in education. They see assessment and instruction as two sides on the same coin which go hand in hand. The traditional roles of both teachers and learners are, consequently, modified which is essential for better language development. In this line, the present study aimed at comparing the effects of portfolio and journal writin...

Although recently a lot of attention has been devoted to IT project portfolio management in theory as well as in practice, research in this area is particularly focused on approaches for project selection. Related tasks and especially the organizational environment in which IT project portfolio management is embedded are often excluded. This paper relates existing findings from the field of IT ...

Research and development portfolio management is traditionally technologically and financially dominated, with little or no attention to the sustainable focus, which represents the triple bottom line: not only financial (and technical) issues but also human and environmental values. This is mainly due to the lack of quantified and reliable data on the human aspects of product/service developmen...

The article analyses in detail two lessons that were part of a larger research project on English teaching Canada, England and Scotland. It considers whether the are by their nature both dialogic formative practice. undertaken was carried out using arts-based criticism. found Eaglestone’s notion good synonymous with Alexander’s idea assessment decisions teachers took to encourage students think...