Several researchers stress the fact that students focus their learning according to the content in the assessment and to how this is carried out. Assessment in this particular study is not in a “usual” formal situation. Instead it refers to assessment which can be found in the interaction between teacher and pupil during hands-on work in mathematics. The analytical tools are derived from resear...

ReaderBench is a multi-purpose, multi-lingual and flexible environment that enables the assessment of a wide range of learners’ productions and their manipulation by the teacher. ReaderBench allows the assessment of three main textual features: cohesion-based assessment, reading strategies identification and textual complexity evaluation, which have been subject to empirical validations. Reader...

Introduction: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common behaviour disorders of childhood. Mental health and school practitioners are increasingly faced with the challenge of assessing children and adolescents who might have ADHD. The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of dance movement therapy (DMT) among ADHD children. Methods: Data collection ...

The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System determines the effectiveness of school systems, schools, and teachers based on student academic growth over time. An integral part of TVAAS is a massive, longitudinally merged database linking students and student outcomes to the schools and systems in which they are enrolled and to the teachers to whom they are assigned as they transition from grade ...

A teacher requested behavioral consultation services to address a first-grade student’s disruptive behavior. Functional behavior assessment (FBA) suggested the behavior was being reinforced by “negative” teacher attention (e.g., reprimands, redirections, response cost). Based on this analysis, the teacher and consultant posited that this student had a learning history such that presentation of ...

In the United States, the use of educational technology is mandated by accredited teacher preparation programs and by state accrediting departments of education. Yet, the majority of teacher education faculty fail to infuse educational technology procedures into their courses at substantial levels (Mitchell, Dipetta and Kerr 2001) and teachers fail to infuse technology into their teaching (Ande...

We explore the potential of dilemma analysis as an assessment tool to reveal student teachers thinking and concerns about their practice. For this purpose we analyze the dilemma analyses completed by 22 student teachers enrolled in our science teacher preparation program over a period of four semesters. Student teachers dilemmas fall into two main groups: dilemmas about student performance and ...

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the critical thinking demonstrated within student teacher blog posts as student teachers discussed and reflected in an online community of practice during their student teaching experiences, and to determine the critical thinking demonstrated within student teaching blog posts as the blog posts related to the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Suppor...

the present article is about the character and performance of the teacher o f russian language in iran . in the article we have tried to investigate the role of the russian language teacher and his / her duties in the educational system o f the university of tehran . according to the authors of the article , among all other duties of a language teacher the motivational - stimulational task is t...