Assessing Outcomes Using Program Assessment Portfolio Approach

the impact of portfolio assessment on iranian efl students essay writing: a process-oriented approach

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

Assessing Program Outcomes

1. Abstract Assessment of the degree program objectives and the individual course outcomes are critical components of an overall degree program review and evaluation. When assessment is in a form of a test, the administration, collection and the final aggregate report generation become somewhat time consuming and generally lags behind. In this paper we present web-based software that is primari...

Program Outcomes Assessment Using Key Performance Indicators

Deferent types of assessment are used to measure the achievements of the Student Learning Outcomes (SOs) and the Course LearningOutcomes (COs) like direct, indirect, quantitative and qualitative. It is powerful to have a good approach to report the data and automated system for evaluatingthe performance indicators used in the outcomesmeasurement.Since the Student Outcomes are unmeasurable, grou...

Assessing the Assessment: using psychometrics to establish reliability and validity of portfolio assessment

Stock Portfolio Optimization Using Water Cycle Algorithm (Comparative Approach)

Portfolio selection process is a subject focused by many researchers. Various criteria involved in this process have undergone alterations over time, necessitating the use of appropriate investment decision support tools. An optimization approach used in different sciences is using meta-heuristic algorithms. In the present study, using Water Cycle Algorithm (WCA), a model was introduced for sel...