When members can’t take constructive criticisms of their work and see it as criticisms of themselves.
When members aren’t as enthused as each other (including myself) about the piece.
When members make judgments about other members based on age, gender, race or any other factor, and frame their interactions according to those judgments. Of course, especially when [...]
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See… I’m all for cooperative, collaborative learning and love sharing ideas, having meetings and generally have a good time whilst learning in a group. In fact, I love it. Where it gets my back up is having my grades rely on other people’s effort. I can name very few people that have as strong a [...]
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Posted in assessment, writing on Apr 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Outline
Organize a working outline. Include an introductory paragraph that gives reader background on the problem or issue.
Introduce the topic
Provide background on the topic
State your thesis. Let your readers know how you will develop the paper and form it will take.
Counter Argument
Summarize the counterclaims
Provide supporting information for counterclaims
Refute [...]
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The use of non-verbal tests of intelligence in an attempt to avoid cultural bias has led to growing controversy, and there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that non-verbal tests may be more culturally biased than language tests.
I could see that happening due to written language itself. Written English is far more formal, [...]
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Posted in assessment on Apr 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
I came up with a universal measuring system to collect evidence of a student’s oral English capability. Spoken English is a difficult thing to test for, however everything has aspects to it.
Oral English has:
pronunciation (are the words clear?)
flow (hesitation? confidence?)
tone (word/sentence stress correct? Does it have feeling or is the speech robotic?)
language (choice of words, [...]
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A few interesting papers I found on podcasting:-
Mark, J.W. & Anthony, C. (2007) Reducing the Effects of Isolation and Promoting Inclusivity for Distance Learners Through Podcasting, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE January 2007, 8(1), from http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde25/pdf/article_7.pdf
Willians, J. & Fardon, M. (2006) Perperual connectivity: Lecture recordings and portable media players, Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007, from [...]
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I’m thinking of relabeling this course for my own benefit to Assessment Principles in Practice. This new title sits better with the aims I have in mind for this course. Beginning with the end in mind these are my thoughts regarding Assessment Principles in Practice’s learning aims.
What do I need to know about assessment that [...]
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