Towards building a computer-aided accreditation system

Accreditation is a big subject. What is accreditation? Why should it matter to us? How many types of accreditation can an institution have? Is the government involved? What issues are present? How can we improve the accreditation process? All these questions will be covered in this paper. In addition, I will build towards a software that will apply the most important points in this paper, like applying the mission, objectives, and outcomes expected from the students in the form of a syllabus. This will help the faculty with the accreditation process and will help the students know what is expected from them since the first day of class. In addition, it will improve their performance

Teaching Econometrics Using Formative Assessment

This article studies the effectiveness of formative assessment techniques for an econometrics course. A large scale project with extensive formative assessment was included in the course, incorporating both summative and formative assessment. The specific assignment is for students to learn all steps to turn raw data obtained from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) using the statistical software SPSS into a viable thesis that is worthy of undergraduate conference presentations and publications. Learning gains from implementation of this project using extensive formative assessment are measured by changes in student course grades.undergraduate economics education, teaching of economics

Crafting Assessment Regulations for First Year Students: Stringency,Academic Alignment and Equity

The research has identified key variations in Higher Education institutional regulatory frameworks relating to the first year of Honours degree programmes, and has demonstrated the potential impact of these variations on student success and progression rates. The findings raise questions about the comparability of academic standards and equity for students. In a climate of considerable debate regarding academic standards and about public and student funding of an increasingly diverse system, the findings will be of interest to national and institutional policy makers and to all stakeholders in Higher Education

THE EFFECT OF INDIVIDUALIZATION SRATEGY AND LEARNING STYLE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION AT FACULTY OF TARBIYAH SCIENCE AND TEACHER TRAINING OF STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITYNORTH SUMATRA

The objectives of this study were to examine whether (1) the students’ achievement in reading comprehension taught by Individualization Strategy, (2) the achievement in reading comprehension of the students with introvert learning style if they taught by Individualization strategy higher than extrovert learning style, (3) there is significant effect of Individualization Strategy and Learning Styles on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension. It was an experimental research with factorial design 2x2. The data were analyzed by using two-way ANOVA by using SPSS program. After the data had been calculated, it is found that (1) DRTA and Individualization strategies has affect students’ achievement in reading comprehension (Sig. = 0.026<0.05), students’ achievement in reading comprehension taught by Individualization strategy (76.10). (2) the achievement in reading comprehension of the students with Extrovert learning style is higher than the students with Introvert learning style (83.64>73.80) and (3) there is no interaction between teaching strategies and Learning Style if they combined on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension (Sig. = 0.658 > 0.05).Key Word: Individualization Teaching Strategies; Learning Style; Students’ Achievemen