Nowadays in higher education, the teaching procedures that lead to better learning outcomes (LO) require continuous analysis. Rubrics such as teaching feedback procedures have demonstrated their effectiveness at heightening the reflection of university students on their own practice. The aims were (1) to study the effects of different types of rubric-based feedback [from process-oriented feedba...

Carried on in non-English major freshman students setting, this study aims to examine how critical thinking skills can be developed through cooperative learning their argumentative essay writing. An experimental group (n=20) and a control were randomly set up, the pre-tested post-tested see if there is significant difference assigned Illinois Critical Thinking Essay Scoring Rubric. The implemen...

Aim of the study was to reveal impact instruction with concept cartoons on primary school 3rd graders’ speaking skills. The group consisted 58 third grade students in two different classrooms a state Ankara. classes were appointed as experimental and control groups. Quasi-experimental model pretest-posttest employed for research. Speaking given through group, current instructional program group...

The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the on-line performance assessment instrument--the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). Issues that will be addressed in the paper include: (a) the establishment of the scoring rubric and its implementation in an extended Rasch model, (b) training of raters, (c) validation of the scoring rubric and procedures for monitoring ...

To help guide design and development of embodied conversational agents, this study reviews the evolving qualities of naturalistic agents by identifying and tracking their most relevant features. The study extends prior taxonomies of characteristics of ECAs, developing a rubric that distinguishes agents’ visual and functional characteristics. The study applies the rubric to 15 agents representin...

BACKGROUND The validity of high-stakes decisions derived from assessment results is of primary concern to candidates and certifying institutions in the health professions. In the field of orthopaedic manual physical therapy (OMPT), there is a dearth of documented validity evidence to support the certification process particularly for short-answer tests. To address this need, we examined the int...

Despite itsubiquity asthewaythat instructors represent their views on teaching andlearning, the statement of teachingphilosophy can be afrustrating document to write and theresults are often uneven. This chapter describes a rubric created at the University ofMichigan's Center forResearch onLearning andTeaching to help faculty andgraduate students craft teaching statements. We describe theresear...