Resistance to Confounding Style and Content in Scoring Constructed-Response Items     

William D. Schafer  Phill Gagné  Robert W. Lissitz 《Educational Measurement》2005,24(2):22-28

An assumption that is fundamental to the scoring of student-constructed responses (e.g., essays) is the ability of raters to focus on the response characteristics of interest rather than on other features. A common example, and the focus of this study, is the ability of raters to score a response based on the content achievement it demonstrates independent of the quality with which it is expressed. Previously scored responses from a large-scale assessment in which trained scorers rated exclusively constructed-response formats were altered to enhance or degrade the quality of the writing, and scores that resulted from the altered responses were compared with the original scores. Statistically significant differences in favor of the better-writing condition were found in all six content areas. However, the effect sizes were very small in mathematics, reading, science, and social studies items. They were relatively large for items in writing and language usage (mechanics). It was concluded from the last two content areas that the manipulation was successful and from the first four that trained scorers are reasonably well able to differentiate writing quality from other achievement constructs in rating student responses.  相似文献   

Advocacy in the college classroom     

Anne D. Neal 《Academic Questions》2006,19(4):71-77

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Public domain and copyright: The final frontier     

Sandra Wertz Ph.D. 《TechTrends》1997,42(5):9-11

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CD–ROM publishing—is it for you?     

D. P. Murphy 《Learned Publishing》1990,3(4):213-216

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Some experiments with high-voltage cathode rays outside of the generating tube     

W.D. Coolidge  C.N. Moore 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1926,202(6):722-736

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Atomic orientation : T. R. Merton. (Phil. Mag., October, 1919, p. 463.)     

Paul D. Foote  W.F. Meggers 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1920,189(2):254-256

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Midnight at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial     

W.D. Ehrhart 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》1993,16(3):109-109

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Toward an Expanded Concept of Rhetorical Delivery: The Uses of Reports in Public Policy Debates     

Carolyn D. Rude 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2004,13(3):271-288

Preparing students for civic engagement requires new knowledge about the uses of documents for advocacy and social change. Substantial social change results from repeated rather than from single rhetorical acts. Reconsideration of the rhetorical canon of delivery suggests expanding the concept beyond its present connection to publication (visual design, medium) to a rhetorical situation comprehensively defined. Delivery may take place over time and embrace a web of activities including field work, updates, and interconnections with other publications.  相似文献   

How environmental knowledge measures up at a Big Ten university   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Michael D. Kaplowitz  Ralph Levine 《Environmental Education Research》2005,11(2):143-160

The reported research examines the level of environmental knowledge of Michigan State University students relative to the results of a biannual national study of the environmental knowledge of the general population of the United States. While the university students were found to possess higher levels of environmental knowledge than the general public, the students' overall environmental knowledge, on average, was deficient with only 66% of them receiving a passing grade. The findings suggest a positive correlation between academic level, field of study and environmental knowledge.  相似文献   

Cross‐border Higher Education Collaboration in Europe: lessons for the ‘two Irelands’?     

ROBERT D. OSBORNE 《European Journal of Education》2006,41(1):113-129

This article examines three examples of cross-border higher education collaboration in Europe in order to throw light on one European region where such collaboration is only in its early stages of development. The main region examined is the Öresund region covering the Skåne area of Southern Sweden centred on Malmo and the Zealand region of Denmark which incorporates the Copenhagen region. Additionally, and more briefly, the Upper Rhine collaboration of the EUCOR universities and the ALMA collaboration (Netherlands, Germany and Belgium) are considered. Lessons from these examples are then used to assist in the assessment of existing collaboration between higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the possibilities for further collaboration.  相似文献