Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment

Formative assessment and motivation: Theories and themes

The crisis of ineffective learning interactions in schools was expressed in 1998 by Black and Wiliam: ‘in terms of systems engineering, present policies in many countries seem to treat the classroom as a black box’. Since that time many nations have adopted formative assessment as a key strategy for improving classroom instruction and student engagement. The ‘black box’ is an object of criticis...

Inside the Black Box: Organisational Buying Behaviour and Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentary

Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”

In the editorial published in this journal, Daniels and colleagues argue that his and Sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (HTA)-process, especially concerning fairness. In contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they war...

Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom

roponents of assessment reform and advocates for performance-based assessments as important components of broader educational change readily acknowledge the shortcomings of testdriven reforms in the past. Indeed, a now familiar litany of unintended negative side effects of high-stakes uses of standardized tests generally accompanies calls for moving to a performance-based assessment system. WYT...

Reliability and Quality Control – Practice and Experience 38 SOFTWARE QUALITY VERIFICATION THROUGH EMPIRICAL TESTING

Included is research that contributes to raising the quality of programs written in C/C++. Empirical testing was tackled. The empirical nature is characterized by the partial quality of its elements, the absence of systematic behavior in the process and the idea of random attempts at program behavior. Empirical testing methods are used the program as a black box view, as well as for the source ...