BACKGROUND Although the flipped classroom model has been widely adopted in medical education, reports on its use in graduate-level public health programs are limited. This study describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a flipped classroom redesign of an introductory epidemiology course and compares it to a traditional model. METHODS One hundred fifty Masters-level students enro...

Abstract. This study aims to 1) investigate the ways of EFL novice secondary school teachers conducted Formative Assessment (FA) in offline classroom mode 2) its implementation based on five key strategies FA 3) reveal students’ responses toward teachers’ classroom. The participants this were and students several schools East Java, Indonesia. employed qualitative research semi-structured interv...

Business and government organizations are increasingly pressed to deal effectively and efficiently with multiple criteria evaluation in a variety of contexts, among which are education and training. This paper demonstrates that a “fuzzy set” assessment approach implemented with a Group Support System can be successfully applied in university classroom contexts. Student learning was significantl...

This study examined the effects of classroom assessment practices on students’ achievement goals. The study included 1,636 ninth grade students and 83 science teachers from Muscat public schools in Oman. Results from hierarchical linear modeling techniques showed that class contextual features and teachers’ teaching experiences and assessment practices interacted significantly with students’ ch...

Sustainable development is a popular phrase often associated with environmental studies, but the phrase can serve as ecological metaphor through which to view environments associated with writing assessment and writing program development. Sustainable environments depend on symbiotic relationships. Writing assessment and writing program development constantly rely on the classroom environment a...

The flipped classroom approach has recently gained prominence in education. However, a review of previous studies shows that the relationship associated with gender difference, student perceptions and learning outcomes has still remained unexplored, and there has been little discussion regarding flipped classroom environment. To fill this gap, this study aimed to provide a further study by deve...

Is learning for assessment an inevitable outcome of assessment for learning? We plan to investigate on this – by showing the effects of traditional continuous assessment modes we have implemented, and inviting student opinions on an e-assessment proposal which was virtually tested in a university setup. Student’s perceptions are checked in the case of traditional continuous assessment technique...

This study investigated the impact of Iranian EAP teachers’ familiarity with or knowledge of alternative assessment (AA), teaching experience, academic degree and gender on their assessment literacy. To this end, 106 EAP teachers (74 males and 32 females) holding PhD degree (N=77) or MA/MSc degree (N=29) in different fields of study selected based on convenience sampling, participated in the st...

Classroom observation research and research on teacher expertise are similar in their reliance on observational data with high-inference procedure to assess the quality of instruction. Expertise research usually uses low-inference measures like eye tracking to identify qualitative difference between expert and novice behaviors and cognition. In this study, we used mobile eye-tracking technology...