This contribution describes an experimentation involving two classes of basic Italian as L2 during the A. Y. 2014-15 I term at the University Complutense of Madrid. Within a general MALL and BYOD approach, Twitter was adopted as in-classroom tool for language learning Dynamic and Authentic Assessment, aiming at boosting the learning success and overall language proficiency. Students’ satisfacti...

The Interpretive Visualization (IVIS) Group at the Division of Biomedical Communications, Dept. of Surgery, University of Toronto has developed a visually-oriented, Internet-based Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course on Sentinel Node Biopsy. The site design methodology involved an extensive needs assessment, iterative formative evaluations of site and media design, a summative evalu...

The article discusses the implementation of integrated STEM learning - based on Case-Based Learning when teaching section "Laws Inheritance and Variation" in biology distance learning. aim study is to investigate effectiveness education. involved four groups 9th grade schoolchildren. selected classes were randomly divided into experimental control ensure validity this study. To methodology, res...

The MRCP(UK) PACES examination has been sat by almost 40,000 candidates in 10 countries around the world since its introduction in 2001. The examination assesses skills of relevance to the practice and delivery of high quality clinical care and is the leading international postgraduate summative assessment of this kind. In 2009, the examination was revised, and this article describes those revi...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for assessment, developed through the web-based module named PASS-Personalized ASSessment, which can be integrated in an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System to provide personalized assessment. PASS estimates learner’s performance through multiple assessment options pre-test, self-assessment and summative assessment tailored to learner’s res...

doi:10.1017/S1368980015002669. Published by Cambridge University Press, 28 September 2015 In our paper entitled “Association between breakfast consumption and educational outcomes in 9–11 year old children”, we described linkage of our trial data to Key Stage 2 educational attainment data. The educational outcome measures were incorrectly described as Statutory Assessment Tests (SATs). These we...

Two studies evaluated the effectiveness of a WWW-based formative assessment package used in undergraduate psychology courses. Students taking on-line multiple-choice tests received instant feedback on areas of weakness and how to address them. In Study 1, students used the package as an integral part of their course syllabus. Level of use correlated with performance in the end-of-course summati...

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique for inferring meaning from a text. Existing LSA-based applications focus on formative assessment in general domains. The suitability of LSA for summative assessment in the domain of computer science is not well known. The results from the pilot study reported in this paper encourage us to pursue further ...