68 research outputs found
Teacher Use of Loss-Focused, Utility Value Messages, Prior to High-Stakes Examinations, and Their Appraisal by Students
This study set out to assess a new instrument designed to measure the perceived frequency that teachers use fear appeals (communicated value messages that focus on avoiding failure) prior to a high-stakes examination and their appraisal as a challenge or a threat. Data were collected from two samples of students preparing for their high-stakes school exit examinations. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a three-factor structure of message frequency, challenge, and threat appraisal. Challenge appraisal positively correlated with value, academic self-efficacy, and engagement. Threat appraisal negatively correlated with academic self-efficacy and engagement. Message frequency was unrelated to value, academic self-efficacy, and engagement. The critical factor in determining relations with antecedents and outcomes is not the message frequency but how it is appraised
Mechanisms of Change in Dutch Inspected Schools: Comparing Schools in Different Inspection Treatments
Verifying the learning process in Physics
The paper describes an automated evaluation system for the learning of
general Physics. The system whose name is Test on Line (ToL) is based on a
questions bank from which an appropriate software generates individual
multi-issue questionnaires to be submitted through the web. ToL has been
extensively experimented during three years and is presently in use for basic
Physics courses at the Engineering Faculties of the Turin Politecnico. The
results of the experimentation and use are presented and discussed. Cumulating
data allows for an optimization of the internal partitions of the questions
bank and of the selection criteria for the generation of the questionnaires.
The instrument proved to be useful and reliable and could become the core of an
agreed common standard for physics education at university level.Comment: HTML, 10 pages, 8 figures. To appear on European Journal of Physic
Facts and fallacies: differentiation and the general education curriculum for students with special educational needs
High-Stakes Decisions: The Legal Landscape of High School Exit Exams and the Implications for Schools and Leaders
The Effects of Instruction in an Inference Strategy on the Reading Comprehension Skills of Adolescents with Disabilities
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