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LCTL Teachers’ Assessment Knowledge and Practices: An Exploratory Study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2013
Language assessment allows teachers to gather information about student learning and adjust their instructional practices accordingly. When integrated with instruction, assessment can support student-centered teaching by helping instructors understand
Megan Montee   +3 more
doaj  

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring teacher assessment literacy in digital environments: Development and validation of a scenario-based instrument

open access: yesEducational Technology & Society
The significance of teacher’s assessment literacy (AL) was originally captured by the 1990 standards for teacher’s competence in educational assessment.
Zahra Banitalebi, Masoomeh Estaji, Gavin T. L. Brown
doaj   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHEMISTRY TEACHERS' ASSESSMENT LITERACY IN TURKEY [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
The aim of this research was to find out the assessment literacy level of chemistry teachers in Turkey. For the purpose of the research, different types of formative assessment techniques were included in the research. This research was conducted as a case study, which is a kind of qualitative research design.
openaire   +1 more source

An Exploration of the Professional Standards for Pre-service Teacher Assessment Literacy in the United States: From the Perspective of External Quality Assurance

open access: yesJiaoshi jiaoyu xuebao
Assessment literacy, as a component of teachers' professional competence, cannot be cultivated and shaped without the teacher education institutions at the pre-service stage.
JIANG Shan
doaj   +1 more source

“It's Not Deterministic and It Will Never Be Deterministic”: A Qualitative Study on Stakeholder Perspectives of Polygenic Risk Score Testing for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Teachers’ Understanding of Formative Assessment

open access: yesLingua Cultura, 2018
The research explored teachers’ understanding of formative assessment in the secondary school level, particularly in the context of English teaching and examined factors related to the teacher assessment in the literacy level.
Mohammad Arsyad Arrafii, Baiq Sumarni
doaj   +3 more sources

How Do Teachers View Themselves as Assessors?

open access: yesEducation Sciences
Within the broader debate on teacher professionalism, there has been a notable increase in research interest in the identity that teachers develop over the course of their careers as assessors. More specifically, teacher assessment identity is considered
Serafina Pastore
doaj   +1 more source

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