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These
presentations
and
accompanying
documents
are
part
of
a
symposium
for
the
annual
meeting
of
the
American
Education
Research
Association,
which
took
place
in
Montreal,
Canada,
in
April
2005.
The
Center
for
the
Assessment
and
Evaluation
of
Student
Learning
(CAESL)
is
committed
to
the
design
of
new
assessment
systems
that
truly
support
classroom
teaching
and
learning.
Building
on
current
knowledge
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This
article
provides
an
overview
of
an
Earth
System
Science
Education
Alliance
(ESSEA)
online
professional
development
course
for
middle
school
classroom
teachers.
The
course
uses
real-world
events
to
develop
content
understandings
of
Earth
system
science,
and
it
models
best
practices
for
age
appropriate
pedagogy.
Topics
include
a
brief
description
of
the
course
itself
and
of
efforts
to
evaluate
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This
article
provides
an
overview
of
data
collection
for
the
purpose
of
evaluating
environmental
education
(EE)
initiatives,
which
are
typically
not
based
on
the
formal
education
system.
It
defines
unobtrusive
measures
as
means
of
collecting
data
that
are
incorporated
into
the
activities
used
in
the
teaching/
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This
article
provides
instruction
on
how
to
read
and
interpret
an
evaluation
of
an
environmental
education
program.
Topics
include
the
benefits
of
conducting
a
sound
evaluation
and
finding
programs
with
similar
goals
as
examples.
Recommendations
include
understanding
the
program
description,
target
population,
methods
of
measurement,
and
the
reliability
and
validity
of
the
evaluation,
and
making
use
...
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This
is
one
chapter
from
a
textbook
entitled
Scoring
Rubrics
in
the
Classroom:
Using
Performance
Criteria
for
Assessing
and
Improving
Student
Performance.
In
this
chapter,
the
authors
link
assessment
and
instruction
by
exploring
the
use
of
rubrics
as
instructional
tools
to
involve
students
in
their
own
assessment
and
improve
student
performance.
Practical
strategies
for
teaching
performance
criteria
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This
tool
for
K-12
educators
provides
a
do-it-yourself
assessment
for
environmental
education
programs
to
determine
the
degree
to
which
they
deliver
a
comprehensive
set
of
learning
experiences,
and
to
determine
where
the
gaps
are.
It
consists
of
a
set
of
checklists
for
grades
PreK-4,
5-8,
and
9-12.
Each
checklist
features
a
column
of
strand
items;
users
can
check
off
whether
the
items
are
fully,
partly,
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The
Evaluation
Center,
a
research
and
development
unit
at
Western
Michigan
University,
seeks
to
provide
national
and
international
leadership
for
advancing
the
theory
and
practice
of
evaluation,
as
applied
to
education
and
human
services.
Evaluation
Center's
homepage
includes
a
directory
of
evaluation
projects;
tools
and
resources,
such
as
checklists,
a
glossary,
bibliography,
and
links
to
related
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This
article
describes
a
statistical
study
in
which
students
were
asked
to
predict
their
own
exam
scores.
The
actual
and
predicted
scores
of
61
students
in
6
years
of
an
advanced
plant
genetics
course
and
the
differences
between
their
actual
and
predicted
scores
were
analyzed
by
various
statistical
measures.
An
overall
mean
difference
between
actual
and
predicted
scores
showed
that
the
students,
on
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Provided by The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, this database of glossaries is intended to improve communication about evaluations. Users can search for a term in the Glossary Database or browse a list of terms. Glossaries are divided into Program Evaluation Terminology, Student Evaluation Terminology, and Other.
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This
article
describes
a
study
in
which
a
university
course
that
is
divided
into
many
sections
was
evaluated
for
grading
congruence
and
teaching
conformity
to
determine
the
effectiveness
of
weekly
teaching
team
meetings
and
a
comprehensive
instructors'
teaching
guide.
Three
grading
variables,
a
semester
project,
laboratory
reports,
and
examination
scores,
were
studied
over
a
five-semester
period
and
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