In our pursuit to broaden and deepen understandings of what it means engage in an assessment activity, we explored the designing implementing a geometry performance task as instantiation authentic assess elementary school students’ mathematics learning. Using participatory action research, incorporated end-of-unit with grade 4/5 students. We found that authenticity within are calling generative...

Virtual Reality technology offers new options for the study, assessment, and rehabilitation of cognitive/functional processes. This paper describes the initiation of a research program aimed at developing a virtual “classroom” for the assessment of ADHD. The system uses a head mounted display, head, hand, and leg tracking, and is laptop deliverable. The classroom environment contains desks, a v...

This study examined a recently developed short version of the Children's Social Desirability (CSD-S) scale with 157 fourth-grade children. Of interest was a) whether one-month test-retest reliability would vary as a function of test assessment mode (interview or classroom), gender, race, SES, and BMI percentile, and b) whether the degree of social desirability would vary as a function of these ...

OBJECTIVE To develop classroom games as alternatives to traditional pharmacokinetic instruction. DESIGN three classroom games were created for the following purposes: simple semester review, application of pharmacokinetics in a community-pharmacy setting, and development of critical thinking skills and concept application. All the games incorporated some degree of group activity. ASSESSMENT...