16 how to use assessments to improve student learning

... an autopsy to assess the health of a patient Lezotte’s questions cannot be answered with an autopsy He wants to know what we have learned today and how we will know if we are successful today ... lost his touch because he failed to follow the stampede into stocks whose stories had more imagination than earnings Perhaps some of them wished that Buffet had invested in a hot Houston company ... guide The data-friendly leader uses measurement not only to suggest how children can improve their performance but more important how the adults in the system can improve their leadership, teaching,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... causation is not a reason to abandon correlation, but rather to understand the limits of this tool, to use it to test hypotheses, and to accumulate information over time to guide and inform effective ... record, because it expresses the degree to which our presumed cause variable is really related to the effect variable we are trying to influence Let me emphasize again: it is not necessary to use advanced ... feedback because students always have the opportunity to demonstrate their respect for feedback through improved performance and resubmission of student work • Student work is always compared to an...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... alternative to the vision is unacceptable This is the reason that a poorly articulated vision statement is worse than no vision at all The vision of a committee is too long, too complex, and too unfocused ... Practical Application to Student Achievement When I ask an audience of a thousand educators and leaders to consider what they would in the absence of educational standards, I have yet to hear as a response ... other cases, student performance on writing tests has been used to measure the horizontal axis No matter how the writing variable has been measured—writing time, assessment time, or student writing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... leadership time to student achievement Leadership time is inextricably linked to student achievement Every element of achievement, from professional development to organization to assessment to collaboration, ... educational organizations, however, find the present state of accountability tolerable The answer is not to abandon the present system, but to improve it—and most of all, to place the data that we ... extensive time to understanding and communicating methods of improving health Educational leaders are the wise physicians who must consider how to improve education, not merely how to analyze the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... Leadership Practice Inventory Curriculum Practice Inventory Factors Influencing Student Achievement, Not Controllable by Leader Factors Influencing Student Achievement, Subject to Influence by Leader ... how we grade a single paper to the calculation of final grades to the manner in which student work is communicated to parents and the community Just as I respect the human potential of every student, ... Specifically, how many people in your organization are now qualified to be superintendent? How many are qualified to occupy a senior position in the central office? How many are qualified to be a building...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... examinations, faculty members have time to collaboratively score student work, communicate with students, and allow students to respect faculty feedback as well as improve the quality of their own work ... rejoinders to this complaint First, in a standards-based school, teachers never compare the work of one student to that of another student “I’ll devote an entire hour to comparing your child’s work to ... serves not only to focus students and teachers but also as an antidote to administrators and policy makers who are sometimes tempted to suggest extras for the classroom To put a fine point on it,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... must take both form- focused and meaning- focused practice II How to improve your use of English grammar in Teaching : The best method of improving your use of English is to study the formulas ... Analysis : V Conclusion : Topic : How to improve your use of English grammar I Introduction : Grammar is general : Grammar is somtimes defined as the way words are put together to make correct sentences ... situation cue, and invited to compose their own responses ; they are directed to the use the structure Example : A picture showing a number of people doing deferent things I shown to class, they describe...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2016, 17:47

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:01

... listening skills in TOEIC test presented above is necessary for the study on how to improve listening skills in part II of TOEIC test which is given in the next chapter Chapter II How to improve listening ... Bangkok? how long length (time or space) How long will it take? how many quantity (countable) How many cars are there? how much quantity (uncountable) How much money you have? how old age How old ... bring in more customers Give in: to surrender In Hessen‟s Siddhartha, the main character‟s father finally gives in and allows hic son to leave home Give up: to stop; to yield to; to part with He...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... take the TOEIC because they want to improve their English Other students take the TOEIC because they need it for an intensive English course or they want to apply for a job that requires a TOEIC ... order to study: Their general attitude toward TOEIC test Their general attitude to ward listening comprehension in TOEIC test How they to improve listening skill in general as well as in TOEIC ... Anything new? - How are things with you? - How are you making out? - How goes it? - How go it with you? - How goes the world with you? - How is it coming? - Hows everything? - Hows life? - Hows life...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:59

... which students work together in small teams to accomplish a common learning goal" (Kagan, 1994) Cooperative learning is fundamentally different from simply asking students to work together to complete ... have to face is the use of mother tongue by students The students may want to shift from the target language to their mother tongue since they share a common language If students are speaking ... of language learning However, despite its significance, peer interaction in English teaching and learning in high schools has not been exploited to the maximum to improve English learning quality...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:39

... mistake is an opportunity to learn - Learning not to cheat oneself: Learning to read is learning to give students enormous advantages in life It may lead to better jobs, to personal development, ... clear goal for students to read Using games to introduce the topic Making students brainstorm words, structures or idea related to the topic Using visual aid to introduce the topic % N % 54 55.7 ... Consequently, the students have to learn how to this An effective way to promote this skill is to talk about texts in class - Taking risks: Students have to take the risk of making mistakes because a mistake...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:44

... question is that how to take advantage of the interest of learning 24 English in order to improve their studying and how to make the learning process interesting so as to attract students to this subject ... to learning English To the question Why not you like learning English?, ,many studenst said that English is a difficult subject because it is quite strange to them so they did not know how to ... levels The teacher should model storytelling before expecting students to tell stories As well, students should have opportunities to listen to Native Elders and other storytellers who can provide...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 16:47

... participants All issues were combined to a system to improve nowadays markets transparency The idea of the empirical study is to identify very important factors (key factor) to describe the land and real ... participants All issues were combined to a system to improve nowadays markets transparency The idea of the empirical study is to identify very important factors (key factor) to describe the land and real ... poor quality is used as fuzzy information to have an idea of market’s behavior However, the German land and real estate market is told to be intransparent So the aim should be to improve market...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... assumptions 4.9 Inappropriate or inadvertent use of metaphor 7 8 9 10 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 Useful Tips 17 Commonly Confused Words 18 Writing Support at Essex 19 ... close attention to where and how professional writers start new sentences Learn how to use semi-colons, colons, and commas so that you can form more complex sentences 3.11 Incorrect use of commas ... ‘commas act as separators between parts of a sentence’ (Cutts, 1995: 81) To this effect, they often need to be used in pairs The following is just one example of how commas are misused (see Swan,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:20

... more complex ways To so, you need to learn how to link different ideas and sentences in order to create a coherent and cohesive text The use of connectors in Arabic can help you improve your style ... conjunctions are connectors used to link two words, clauses, sentences or ideas Arabic is rich with additive conjunctions However, each has its own function ‫ﺍﻟﻮﺍﻭ‬ And Used to link words, clauses, sentences ... addition to linking words, clauses and sentences, ‫ ﻭ‬can be used to link paragraphs and is often used to begin one This is prevalent in media texts ‫ﺛﻢ‬ Then Like ‫ ﺛﻢ , ﻭ‬can be used to link...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:48

... câu sau: - To play the ‘oubou’ you need to have strong arms - The ‘oubou’ is considered one of the most difficult instruments to play - The ‘oubou’ is very difficult to play, because Karen must ... didn’t say Paul stole my watch! Nếu người nói nhấn mạnh từ theo cách khác nhau, cách nhấn từ ( I - didn’t - say Paul - stole - my - watch ) nghĩa khác hoàn to n: I didn’t say Paul stole my watch! ... denotation connotation hoàn to n khác (và mà hai từ hoàn to n có nghĩa giống hai ngôn ngữ khác nhau: father/mother không hoàn to n cha/mẹ - daddy/mummy không hoàn to n ba/má; tình cảm đính kèm...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 10:59

... www.esl-pro.com VI Listening Tips for the TOEFL® iBT Test The best way to improve listening skills for the TOEFL® iBT Test is to listen as much as possible to a variety of sources in various subject ... certainty? Listen for changes in topic or digressions Watch a recorded TV or movie comedy and pay particular attention to how stress and intonation patterns are used to convey meaning Copyright © ... _ IV How to Become a Better Listener Has someone ever said to you: "You are not listening to me"? Or, have you said angrily, "You haven’t heard a word I said!" Or, have you been told: "You...

Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2014, 09:26

... Americans Do To Improve Their Social Life? Teaching them to play sports What Do Americans Do To Improve Their Social Life? Giving them advice on how to choose friends What Do Americans Do To Improve ... Do Americans Do To Improve Their Social Life? School - Counsellors What Do Americans Do To Improve Their Social Life? thank to go to school, many children can make good things to improve their ... Do To Improve Their Social Life? What Do Americans Do To Improve Their Social Life? I Society The Government Schools What Do Americans Do To Improve Their Social Life? What Do Americans Do To Improve...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:41

... in the groups are now used to enlarge the preexisting de novo assembly contigs (Figure 1a) and, in some cases, to start new contigs To this, we attempt to assign each group to a contig, by first ... be applied to the entire assembly because, at low coverage, there would be too many false positives Joining scaffolds In a de novo assembly, single read pair links cannot be used to join scaffolds, ... unique alignment to the reference genome, and then use such single trusted links to join scaffolds Allowing trusted links to join scaffolds would work - but inefficiently - because in practice...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20