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Item Response Theory for Peer Assessment
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Uto, Masaki; Ueno, Maomi – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2016
As an assessment method based on a constructivist approach, peer assessment has become popular in recent years. However, in peer assessment, a problem remains that reliability depends on the rater characteristics. For this reason, some item response models that incorporate rater parameters have been proposed. Those models are expected to improve…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Peer Evaluation, Bayesian Statistics, Simulation
Supporting the Professional Development of Teacher Educators in a Productive Way
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Boei, Fer; Dengerink, Jurriën; Geursen, Janneke; Kools, Quinta; Koster, Bob; Lunenberg, Mieke; Willemse, Martijn – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
This study reports on what 13 teacher educators going through a procedure to become registered as a teacher educator in 2011-2012 learned, what goals they formulated for their further professional development and what activities they planned to achieve these goals. The methods used in this study are mainly the same as were used at the time the…
Descriptors: Teacher Educator Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Certification, Faculty Development
Which Preparatory Curriculum for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Is Best? The Challenge for International Schools with Regard to Mathematics and Science
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Corlu, M. Sencer – International Review of Education, 2014
There are two mainstream curricula for international school students at the junior high level: the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). The former was developed in the mid-1990s and is currently being relaunched in a 21st-century approach.…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Junior High School Students, International Schools, Educational Change
Learning What Works in ITS from Non-Traditional Randomized Controlled Trial Data
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Pardos, Zachary A.; Dailey, Matthew D.; Heffernan, Neil T. – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2011
The well established, gold standard approach to finding out what works in education research is to run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) using a standard pre-test and post-test design. RCTs have been used in the intelligent tutoring community for decades to determine which questions and tutorial feedback work best. Practically speaking, however,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Pretests Posttests, Educational Research
A Second Year Evaluation Study of Promethean ActivClassroom. Final Report
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Marzano, Robert J.; Haystead, Mark W. – Marzano Research Laboratory, 2010
During the 2009-2010 school year, Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL) was commissioned by Promethean Ltd. to conduct a second year evaluation study of the effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on student academic achievement. This report describes the findings from the second year study along with aggregate findings from the first and second year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Research Reports, Program Evaluation