Traditional Versus Alternative Writing Assessment

traditional versus alternative writing assessment

The Relationship between Complementary & Alternative Healthcare versus Traditional Healthcare

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the relationship between complementary and alternative healthcare versus Traditional Healthcare. This study finds that all forms of alternative care looked at are complements to traditional forms of healthcare. We find that higher education and being married increase the likelihood of utilizing CAM. Furthermore it is shown that white people and females ...

Alternative Assessment Procedures in Iranian EFL Writing Classes: The Washback Effect and Learners’ Attitudes

This study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of Iranian EFL university learners. The participants taking part in the study were 156 native Iranian students in a mixed Reading-Writing course. Through the two three-month semesters, the learner...

static versus dynamic assessment of l2 learners’ reading ability

dynamic assessment according to vygotskys sociocultural theory, states that instruction and assessment are interrelated. using static forms of assessment with second and foreign language students could do more harm than good. many teachers neglect to take account of the complexity involved in learning a second or foreign language and often wonder why learning of a language take so long. thi...

Traditional versus Microbiological Periodontal Disease Assessment - Where are we today?

Most of what we learned about periodontal disease in dental colleges is largely outdated. The old calculus-based theory of periodontal disease has been replaced by a newer paradigm, one derived from microbiological & immunological studies that compel us to rethink the traditional "notched metal stick" approach developed in the 1900's. Presently, the diagnosis & classification of periodontal dis...