about the Importance of Goals‚ Objectives‚ and Strategies By Bob Freitag Direction is provided only when there are clear and concise goals and objectives. You may know the “what”—such as rivers flood. You may understand the “so what”—the impacts caused by the flooding. But can you devise a “now what”—a course of action‚ a— To avoid the adverse impact you need a direction. You need goals and objectives. The clearer and more measurable your goals the easier your actions are to perform and evaluate
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Assessment is a systematic process of collecting information or evidence about a student’s progress towards meeting the learning expectations. Assessment is embedded in the instructional activities throughout a unit. The expectations for the assessment tasks are clearly articulated and the learning activity is planned to make that demonstration possible. This process of beginning with the end in mind helps to keep focus on the expectations of the course. The purpose of assessment is to gather the
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and the learning support practitioner in assessment of learner’ achievements. “Assessment for learning is the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning‚ where they need to go and how best to get there”. Assessment Reform Group‚ 2002 The teacher has ultimate responsibility for setting schemes of work for the class with clear objectives (Formative assessment) and writing end of term and end of year reports
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Assessment in Schools. Course Description Unit Content Reason and purpose for assessment‚ Baseline and benchmarking‚ Target setting‚ Assessment for learning‚ Assessment as learning‚ Assessment of learning‚ Marking‚ recording and reporting‚ Assessment and improving quality of pupils work. Unit objectives The learner will:- 1. State reasons and purpose of assessment 2. Describe baselines and benchmarking 3. Describe skills in target setting 4. a) Apply the principles of target
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Marielena Hincapie’s article “Let Us DREAM” from the Huffington Post‚ published December 10‚ 2010 explains the argument on the passing of the DREAM Act and how she and the DREAMers are hoping for a better future and that will happen if the DREAM Act is passed‚ Marielena is in favor of the DREAM Act. She is the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center she’s a public interest lawyer who protects the rights of immigrant workers as herself‚ she serves on the American Bar Associations
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like to do some further study in England but realises that her level of English needs to improve before she would be accepted onto a course. She sees the benefits of her improvement and this motivates her to learn more. She is very much a concrete learner. She enjoys the oral interaction and believes this is how she learns most effectively. She believes her strengths are in reading and listening. She says she understands most things she reads and hears but struggles when trying to express herself
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group of people with a common interest would naturally coordinate to exercise their common goal. However‚ this is generally not the case‚ as Mancur Olson‚ the author of The Logic of Collective Action‚ argues. Olson (2004: 2) states that "it is not in fact true that the idea that groups will act in their self-interest follows logically from the premise of rational and self-interested behavior." Collective action groups‚ without some sort of coercion or special device to make individual participants
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Requirements | Video-game design | Learning design | Well-defined goals | Players understand the desired outcome of a game and howto play | Learning objectives are clear | Patience | Players may perform tasks repeatedly if necessary | Students may redo assignments repeatedly if necessary | Team play | Players work together to win | Groups of students work together to complete andreview tasks | Tracking | Games are organized in levels‚ and point values ofaccomplishments are known | Students
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Learning Skills for Distance Learners: Providing 21st Century Learning Support Sara Al-Oraini Dep. Curricula & Teaching Methods College of Education‚ King Saud University Abstract One of the main goals of open and distance education (ODE) programmes is to ensure that knowledge and skills gained positively affect performance or behavior. Apart from that‚ ODE programmes should also ensure learners extend their existing learning skills into new directions. However‚ it has always been a
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RESEARCH PAPER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INTRODUCTION Affirmative Action is an employment legislation protection system that is intended to address the systemized discrimination faced by women and minorities. It achieves this by enforcing diversity through operational intrusions into recruitment‚ selection‚ and other personnel functions and practices in America. Originally‚ Affirmative Action arose because of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s desire to integrate society on educational
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