Classroom Assessment: Continuing the Discussion

Bringing Classroom-Based Assessment into the EFL classroom

This  paper  describes  how  English  as  a  Foreign  Language  (EFL)  teachers  can  bring  reliable, valid, user-friendly assessment into their classrooms, and thus improve the quality of learning that  occurs  there.  Based  on  the  experience  of  the  author  as  a  an  EFL  teacher  and  teacher-trainer, it is suggested that the promotion and development of autonomy, intrinsic motivation...

Predicting Specificity in Classroom Discussion

High quality classroom discussion is important to student development, enhancing abilities to express claims, reason about other students’ claims, and retain information for longer periods of time. Previous small-scale studies have shown that one indicator of classroom discussion quality is specificity. In this paper we tackle the problem of predicting specificity for classroom discussions. We ...

Ethical issues in risk communication: continuing the discussion.

Proposed in this article is one possible framework for classifying multiple types of ethical issues in risk communication research and practice to help continue a discussion initiated in 1990 by Morgan and Lave. Some of the questions that each stage of the process for planning risk communication strategies appears to pose for ethics are discussed (e.g., selecting issues to be communicated, know...

Six months of exclusive breastfeeding: continuing the discussion.

Mapping Discussion Roles: From the Classroom to the Online Discussion Board

In this study, we look at beginning to explore roles and how individuals fill those roles in face-to-face and online social networks. The long term goal of the research is to be able to map both the roles and the individuals as they move between the two types of social networks. The mapping of this migration will provide community administrators with tools and knowledge that can be used to bett...