Author: Gudrun R. HanselmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Teachers and community
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
An Assessment of Teacher Change in Role Perception as the Result of Participation in the Elementary School Evaluation by the Assembly of Elementary Schools, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Author: Gudrun R. HanselmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Teachers and community
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Can We Talk?
Author: Roberta Chinsky MatusonPublisher: Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN: 1398601314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
WINNER: Independent Press Award 2022 - Career Are you avoiding an uncomfortable conversation at work? If you're an executive or a team leader, strengthening your organization's ability to have difficult conversations is necessary and worth the discomfort. The key to successful dialogue starts and ends with changing the conversation. Recognizing that it takes two people to engage in meaningful outcomes, Can We Talk? outlines what each contributor needs to do to achieve the best possible result. Using examples from everyday work situations, this book offers guidance on how to create the right conditions for a meaningful discussion. The author identifies the seven key principles that enable both parties to gain a deeper understanding of what the other person may be thinking and will help establish their point of view more clearly: confidence, clarity, compassion, curiosity, compromise, credibility, courage. Can We Talk? includes examples and advice from those who have been there and thrived, as well as lessons learned from conversation failures and example scripts of productive conversations. Readers will learn how to prepare, start and manage the potentially challenging exchange of words that typically occur at work, and come away with an understanding that for any conversation to take place, both parties must be engaged.
CHANGING ASSESSMENT PERCEPTION
Author: Jiming ZhouPublisher: Open Dissertation Press
ISBN: 9781361041727
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This dissertation, "Changing Assessment Perceptions and Practices in Chinese College English Classrooms" by Jiming, Zhou, 周季鳴, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This study examines teachers' and students' perceptions and practices of classroom assessment in an English curriculum innovation at a Chinese university. It slices through the layers of the innovation onion to reveal the agentive spaces in which teachers and students interpret and enact assessment for learning (AfL) in first-year college English classrooms. This study adopts a case study approach. A university which actively engaged itself in a change towards AfL was selected as a critical case. Individual and focus group interviews, classroom observations and a documentary analysis were conducted to collect a variety of data from a key change initiator, a faculty leader, three teachers and their students. Data analysis generally followed the qualitative-analysis protocols established by Miles and Huberman (1994). The three teachers demonstrated different awareness of and competence in assessing higher-order learning skills, enhancing learning-facilitating feedback and transforming the students' role in assessment and feedback. A recurring theme emerging from the comparison of teachers' assessment practices is the distinction between convergent and divergent approaches to planning, framing, conducting and using assessment. Teachers' assessment knowledge and their perceptions of English language learning and assessment interplayed with their assessment practices. Perceptual gaps were detected between teachers and their students with regard to the learning goals, the content and forms of classroom assessment, and the way to deliver and use feedback. The interplay between assessment perceptions and practices was interpreted from a perspective of Wenger's social theory of learning. The perceptual mismatches between different stakeholders were bridged through conferring legitimacy of reification and participation to members in other communities of practices. This study contributes to an enhanced understanding of culturally appropriate ways to implement AfL in a Chinese tertiary education context. A convergent-divergent classroom assessment continuum is proposed based on classroom assessment data. An exploratory model is developed to understand change stakeholders' legitimate peripheral participation in assessment innovation. This model advances the argument that change stakeholders' engagement in assessment innovation is interdependent and interrelated. Coordination, transparency, and the negotiability of assessment practices and standards were found to facilitate teacher and student learning. Implications on disseminating assessment changes are discussed on the basis of empirical findings and theoretical abstraction. This study also incorporates a discussion on the implications for teaching Chinese first-year university students and the design, use, and validation of a classroom observation scheme. Future research is needed to explore whether and how teachers' and students' cognitive and metacognitive gains through their participation in assessment innovation can be sustained and transferred to teaching and learning scenarios in the future and/or in other disciplines. Subjects: English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - China
How Do Students' Perceptions of Assessment and Learning Change when Standards Based Assessment Practices are Introduced to an American International High School?
Author: Karen BonthroneThe Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors
Author: Kanako TakuPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040039367
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors is the first edited volume to present multidisciplinary perspectives on various aspects of changes that humans experience. The handbook is designed to highlight the different contents, types, ways, meanings, applications, and moments of changes that have been recognized by experts in various fields within the life and social sciences. Comprised of four sections, the chapters address changes in a variety of contexts related to human perceptions and behaviors; the moment of change and fluctuations; changes in applied settings; and the meaning of changes, including resistance to change. Written by a range of expert international contributors, the book brings together discussions and insights about how different levels and types of changes in human perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors have been studied and considered in diverse fields. It also explores the various mechanisms that account for changes, exploring how and when changes occur and what changes mean to humans. Relevant for empirical and theoretical work, the handbook will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students across psychology, behavioral sciences, and social sciences.
Time-Dependent Measures of Perception in Sensory Evaluation
Author: Joanne HortPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118991680
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyse and interpret responses to products perceived through the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing. It is used to reveal insights into the way in which sensory properties drive consumer acceptance and behaviour, and to design products that best deliver what the consumer wants. It is also used at a more fundamental level to provide a wider understanding of the mechanisms involved in sensory perception and consumer behaviour. Sensory perception of products alters considerably during the course of consumption/use. Special techniques are used in product development to measure these changes in order to optimise product delivery to consumers. Time-Dependent Measures of Perception in Sensory Evaluation explores the many facets of time-dependent perception including mastication and food breakdown, sensory-specific satiety and sensory memory. Both traditional and cutting-edge techniques and applications used to measure temporal changes in sensory perception over time are reviewed, and insights into the way in which sensory properties drive consumer acceptance and behaviour are provided. This book will be a valuable resource for sensory professionals working in academia and industry, including sensory scientists, practitioners, trainers and students; and industry-based researchers in QA/QC, R&D and marketing.
Democracy’s Destruction? Changing Perceptions of the Supreme Court, the Presidency, and the Senate after the 2020 Election
Author: James L. GibsonPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610449274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
On January 6, 2021, an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. This assault on America’s democratic system was orchestrated by then President Donald Trump, abetted by his political party, and supported by a vocal minority of the American people. Did denial of the election results and the subsequent insurrection inflict damage on American political institutions? While most pundits and many scholars say yes, they have offered little rigorous evidence for this assertion. In Democracy’s Destruction? political scientist James L. Gibson uses surveys from representative samples of the American population to provide a more informed answer to the question. Focusing on the U.S. Supreme Court, the presidency, and the U.S. Senate, Gibson reveals that how people assessed the election, the insurrection, and even the second Trump impeachment has little connection to their willingness to view American political institutions as legitimate. Instead, legitimacy is grounded in more general commitments to democratic values and support for the rule of law. On most issues of institutional legitimacy, those who denied the election results and supported the insurrection were not more likely to be alienated from political institutions and to consider them illegitimate. Gibson also investigates whether Black people might have responded differently to the events of the 2020 election and its aftermath. He finds that in comparison to the White majority, Black Americans were less supportive of America’s democratic institutions and of democratic values, such as reverence for the rule of law, because they often have directly experienced unfair treatment by legal authorities. But he emphasizes that the actions of Trump and his followers are not the cause of those weaker commitments. Democracy’s Destruction? offers rigorous analysis of the effect of the Trump insurrection on the state of U.S. democracy today. While cautioning that Trump and many Republicans may be devising schemes to subvert the next presidential election more effectively, the book attests to the remarkable endurance of American political institutions.
The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
Author: Dominic WysePublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473952727
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1762
Book Description
The research and debates surrounding curriculum, pedagogy and assessment are ever-growing and are of constant importance around the globe. With two volumes - containing chapters from highly respected researchers, whose work has been critical to understanding and building expertise in the field – The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment focuses on examining how curriculum is treated and developed, and its impact on pedagogy and assessment worldwide. The Handbook is organised into five thematic sections, considering: · The epistemology and methodology of curriculum · Curriculum and pedagogy · Curriculum subjects · Areas of the curriculum · Assessment and the curriculum · The curriculum and educational policy The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment’s breadth and rigour will make it essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students around the world.
Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards
Author: Mien SegersPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402013577
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. It addresses relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective and, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches.
Advances and Innovations in University Assessment and Feedback
Author: Carolin KreberPublisher:
ISBN: 9780748694549
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores changing perspectives and innovations in assessment in light of recent theorising and empirical research ...