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Reading Strategies and Approaches to Learning of Bilingual Primary School Pupils
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Rao, Zhenhui; Gu, Peter Yongqi; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Hu, Guangwei – Language Awareness, 2007
The research reported here investigated primary school pupils' use of reading strategies. The study differed from most of the previous studies on reading strategies in that (1) the participants were young bilinguals in multicultural Singapore; (2) the data were examined within the Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) framework developed by John…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies, Foreign Countries
Assessment as Judgment-in-Context: Analysing How Teachers Evaluate Students' Writing
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Cooksey, Ray W.; Freebody, Peter; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In this paper, we analyse teachers' judgments of students' written texts. We document how teachers use evidence in ways that depend both on their knowledge of the students and on the assessment framework they need to use. We analyse teachers' judgments by contrasting the structures of assessments made using teachers' normal classroom judgment…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Teacher Attitudes, Student Writing Models