It has been argued that students’ understanding of science ideas and concepts is based on their engagement in engineering practices. However, research studying practices engaging the content school textbooks particularly limited. The aim present study to develop a framework investigate (through it) level at which engage Greek middle Physics about forces motion. analysis was carried out total 61...

The aim of this study was to validate a health professions ethics rubric by an interprofessional team. The rubric was used by two pharmacy and two dental faculty members to score ethics cases submitted by 16 teams comprised of 80 pharmacy and 50 dental students. A debriefing session for each case was moderated by a non-rater faculty member to arrive at a consensus score for the cases. Interrate...

in assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. this study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among iranian efl learners. for this purpose, two groups of intermediate efl learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...

Students who are solving open-ended problems would benefit from formative assessment , i.e., from receiving helpful feedback and from having an instructor who is informed about their level of performance. Open-ended problems challenge existing assessment techniques. For example, such problems may have reasonable alternative solutions, or conflicting objectives. Analyses of open-ended problems a...

30 Purpose/ Content (K) Paper has no purpose. No hypothesis/thesis is evident. Paragraphs do not support purpose throughout paper. Purpose is weak or unclear in four or more paragraphs. Paragraphs do not support purpose in 75% or more of paper. Thesis/hypothesis fails to assert idea. Purpose is fairly clear but lost in two or more paragraphs. Support for purpose is unrelated in at least two or ...

The current study sought to investigate how far dialogic inquiry influences the oral communicative competence of EFL learners and their willingness communicate levels. participants comprised thirty female in an English language translation context. By using ten topics distributed over cycles, administering comprehension test with analytic rubric for analysis, a questionnaire, observation form, ...

PURPOSE To determine whether disclosure of scoring rubric for objective basic clinical skills can improve the scores on the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in medical students. METHODS Clinical performance score results of one university medical students (study group, n=345) were compared to those of another university (control group, n=1,847). Both groups took identical OSCE...

Greatly influenced by the work of Rasch (1960/1980), Mokken (1971) presented a nonparametric scaling procedure that is based on the theory of invariant measurement, but draws upon less strict requirements related to the scale of measurement. Because they are theoretically and empirically related to Rasch models, Mokken’s nonparametric models have been recognized as a useful exploratory tool for...

In assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. This study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, two groups of intermediate EFL learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...