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Use of Interactive-Informal Assessment Practices: New Zealand Secondary Students' Conceptions of Assessment
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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Irving, S. Earl; Peterson, Elizabeth R.; Hirschfeld, Gerrit H. F. – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This study aimed to investigate how students' conceptions of assessment relate to one another, how students define assessment, and how student conceptions of assessment relate to their definitions of assessment. A nationally representative sample of New Zealand secondary students (N = 705) responded to a 45-item Conceptions of Assessment inventory…
Descriptors: Informal Assessment, Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Evaluation Methods
Explorations of Relationships among Learners, Tasks, and Learning
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Goldman, Susan R. – Learning and Instruction, 2009
Based on a critical re-analysis of cognitive load theory (CLT), Schnotz and Kurschner identified the need for research on more sensitive ways of assessing learner characteristics, both prior to and during instruction, in order to understand learning processes and outcomes. One emergent theme of the papers in this special issue is that the "same"…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Learning Processes, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes
Accounts and Explanations in Group Decisions Concerning Students with Learning and Social Disabilities.
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Granstrom, Kjell – Learning and Instruction, 1995
Explanations and accounts used by teachers in 4 team meetings to make decisions about 12 pupils with learning and social disabilities were studied. Teachers, under certain circumstances, were able to apply an elucidative model based on shared explanations, but they often used a more restricted model. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education