Name: Marwa Saleh Assessment as learning 1-Definition Through this process students are able to learn about themselves as learners and become aware of how they learn – become megacognitive (knowledge of one’s own thought processes). Students reflect on their work on a regular basis‚ usually through self and peer assessment and decide (often with the help of the teacher‚ particularly in the early stages) what their next learning will be. Assessment as learning helps students to
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1)The Principle of Utility is the belief that when a person has a number of options in a moral situation he should chose the one that results in the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. However‚ the definition of happiness is up to interpretation. I feel as though people should follow this principle in certain situations. For example‚ if you are faced with the choice of playing videogames by yourself at home or going out to dinner with your family you should chose the
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The Smurfette Principle The Smurfette principle is a controversy on how TV shows and movies have all men/boys as characters with zero to one girl. A writer by the name Katha Pollitt writes an article in the New York Times talking about this principle. She defines her principle as‚ “…a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female‚ stereotypically defined” (Pollitt). She uses her daughter to explain to us that there is just not enough shows for little girls to watch. She mentions how
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ASSESSMENT METHODS What is assessment? Black and William (1998) declare that the term assessment is generally used to refer to all activities teachers use to help students learn and to gauge student progress. There are many different forms of assessment‚ however they can generally be divided into two main categories; formative and summative which can be formal or informal. Formative assessment focuses on the gap between where a learner is in their learning‚ and where they need to be. Marshall
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Understanding leadership5517515-638810 Learner name: Learner registration number: Note: Learners must satisfy all the assessment criteria by achieving at least 50% of the marks available for each criterion. The ‘lines/box’ below a question is for guidance purposes only. Marks are not deducted for writing more. It is perfectly acceptable for all answers to be continued on additional forms provided they are attached to the assignment when making a submission. The availability of the form electronically
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“Assessment practises have a powerful impact on learning and teaching” (Curriculum Council of Western Australia‚ 2004‚ p. 37). For teachers the focus is on the use of assessment results; how they use those results to inform instructional decision making and whether they provide results that verify students have indeed met the learning targets originally set. Thus‚ judgements are made about the quality of assessments after the students’ performance. ‘High-quality’ assessments encompass a number of
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CHAPTER 1 Ten Principles of Economics Economics P RINCIP LES OF N. Gregory Mankiw Premium PowerPoint Slides by Ron Cronovich © 2009 South-Western‚ a part of Cengage Learning‚ all rights reserved In this chapter‚ look for the answers to these questions: § What kinds of questions does economics address? § What are the principles of how people make decisions? § What are the principles of how people interact? § What are the principles of how the economy as a whole works?
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Assessing Family Health Patterns: Evaluating the Usefulness of a Heritage Assessment Tool Sarah Potter Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0191 October 5‚ 2014 Assessing Family Health Patterns: Evaluating the Usefulness of a Heritage Assessment Tool In the United States today cultural diversity is growing more prevalent every day. The report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM: Unequal treatment‚ 2002) presented information that racial and ethnic minorities of all ages receive lower
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Introduction This document has been written in response to teacher interest in gaining increased understanding of the use of a variety of assessment methods. Connecting the Pieces encompasses a series of three documents focused on assisting teachers in developing a repertoire of skills in authentic assessment: Performance Assessments: A Wealth of Opportunities; Portfolios: More Than Just a File Folder; and Rubrics: Before an individual‚ team or organization forms a plan for performance improvement
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Understanding Food: Why they say what they say 1 Understanding Food Americans have been told for decades that gaining weight is a simple equation: calories in minus calories out equals weight gained. Time has proven this theory wrong over and over again‚ yet still we think that if we can only starve ourselves that much more‚ we can get thin and healthy. It’s time to learn otherwise. This report is excerpted from a larger book entitled “How to Eat Food”‚ available on my website. “How to Eat
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