Teacher education programs are experiencing reform movements in both performance based assessment and in the integration of technology into the curriculum. Performance assessment entails movement away from traditional curricula and assessment means to achieve more authentic, "real world" ways of verifying the preparedness of education graduates. Our institution’s response to these reform effort...

This paper studies the modelling of large diversified portfolios in a financial market with jump-diffusion risks. The portfolios considered include three categories: equal money-weighted portfolios, risk minimizing portfolios, and market indices. Reduced-form dynamics driven jointly by one Brownian Motion and one Poisson process are derived for the asymptotics of such portfolios. We prove that ...

Large-scale data policies easily may have unplanned effects of ‘’homogeneity” on the available data supply. A narrowing of the scope of the data supply tailored to established research paradigms could limit the opportunities for unconventional, but also adventurous, new research directions with the risk of slowing down scientific progress. A systematic assessment of data portfolios not only on ...

In this paper an example of the questionnaires’ working out has been included about one topic: educational concept. The other topics, not worked out in this paper, from the questionnaire are:  Policy-related basic assumptions  Use of portfolio  Institution-wide portfolio systems  Freedom of choice of students portfolio  Roles with portfolios  Embedding curriculum  Guidance/coaching  Ass...

Credit portfolios, as for instance Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO’s) consist of credits that are heterogeneous both with respect to their ratings and the involved industry sectors. Estimates for the transition probabilities for different rating classes are well known and documented. We develop a Markov Chain model, which uses the given transition probability matrix as the marginal law, bu...

While portfolios have seen an unprecedented surge in popularity, they have also become the subject of controversy: learners often perceive little gain from writing reflections as part of their portfolios; scholars question the ethics of such obligatory reflection; and students, residents, teachers and scholars alike condemn the bureaucracy surrounding portfolio implementation in competency-base...

Competency based learning and e-portfolios are integral parts of modern teaching repertoires. Media and computer technology play an important role in supporting such scenarios. This paper presents an infrastructure consistent of a generic competency database that can be connected to various learning management systems or e-portfolio systems to implement competencebased assessment. The concepts ...