Malaysia government had been trying hard in order to find the most efficient methods in learning. However, it is hard to actually access and evaluate students whom will then be called an excellent student. It is because in our realties student who excellent is only excel in academic. This evaluation becomes a problem because it not balances in our real life interm of to get an excellent student...

It also incorporates student learning through a separate Student Impact Rating that determines the length and intensity of an educator’s evaluation plan, an element distinct from educators’ Summative Performance Rating.2 This aspect of the EEF stands in contrast to other states’ educator evaluation systems, which include specific formulas and base up to 50 percent of educators’ ratings on stude...

Joanna Dickert is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research and National Fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University. In this role, she directly advises and supports undergraduate students through each phase of the research process beginning with proposal development through learning assessment and program evaluation. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Evaluation and Measurement a...

The increased adoption of online student evaluations from 2% in 2000 to almost 33% in 2005 by a variety of institutions reporting to Brigham Young University's Online Student Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education (OnSET) Web resource has not been without controversy. The major concern voiced about online course evaluations is reduced response rates from the students. However, our experienc...

pg-MathTrails is an application developed to assess math skills of school students. It includes i) topic hierarchy to categorize the questions, ii) question template repository using which teachers can add different types of questions, iii) question play module to play questions, iv) student evaluation module to evaluate student performance, and v) recommender that recommends videos residing in...

Maps are used to track diseases and illustrate the social context of health problems. However, commercial mapping software requires special training. This article illustrates how nonspecialists used Google Earth, a free program, to create community maps. The Bronx, New York, is characterized by high levels of obesity and diabetes. Residents and medical students measured the variety and quality ...

Since the early 1970s, ballot initiatives and court rulings have sought to equalize funding across California schools. Yet 30 years later, variations in funding remain both across and within school districts. Moreover, although “funding per pupil” provides a readily available and understandable measure of school resources within a district, it provides little insight into how individual schools...