one very significant issues in most educational systems, the question is educational achievement levels of students in exams. the educational system is one of the most important indicators of education performance and evaluation of teaching and the learning is the fact that the performance of the system output in each year. the method of the research is descriptive-survey. the research communit...

Improving student’s academic performance is not an easy task for the academic community of higher learning. The academic performance of engineering and science students during their first year at university is a turning point in their educational path and usually encroaches on their General Point Average (GPA) in a decisive manner. The students evaluation factors like class quizzes mid and fina...

Virtual learning environments (VLEs) are computer-based online learning environments, which provide opportunities for online learners to learn at the time and location of their choosing, whilst allowing interactions and encounters with other online learners, as well as affording access to a wide range of resources. They have the capability of reaching learners in remote areas around the country...

In an MIT calculus-based introductory Newtonian mechanics course we study the effectiveness of various instructional course elements: electronic and written homework, collaborative group problems, and class participation. We measure effectiveness by the slope of the regression line between a student’s score (used as a proxy for participation) on a particular course element and his normalized ga...

1 Shouling He, ECE department, Penn State Erie, 5091 Station Road, Erie, PA16563, [email protected] Abstract Nowadays, most engineering related departments offer microprocessor courses due to the broad applications of computers. However, understanding the basic concept of a microprocessor behind the physical device is a difficult task for most primary learners. Under this circumstance, laboratory e...

As part of your work as a counselor, you will be exposed to a wide variety of assessment instruments. At times, you might be asked to comment on the appropriateness and strengths/weaknesses as a given test. The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) is an outstanding initial source for this type of information. While we have discussed details about the psychometric strengths and weaknesses of a num...

This study aims to investigate the effect of integrating the Argument-Based Science Inquiry (ABSI) approach with multi-modal representations on students’ achievement, and their argumentation and writing skills. The study was conducted with 62 female and 57 male college students at the Central Anatolian Turkish University. All participants were in their third year of the science education progra...