Browsing by Subject "assessment"
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(2018-04-12)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe recent adoption of career and college ready standards also coincides with the adoption of new statewide accountability assessments aligned to these standards. While the development of assessments aligned to these ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: Special EducationDissertation under the direction of Professor Donald L. Compton In contrast to conventional static assessments measuring what students have learned, dynamic assessments (DA) measure how well students can learn; that is, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-07-30)This Capstone project explores the relationship between homeschooled students and the college admission process. Specifically, this essay is designed to answer the following question: Are homeschooled learners being ...
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(2012-04-16)Department: Teaching and LearningBased on a synthesis of prior research, this study proposes a three dimensional framework to describe the cognitive achievements important for understanding area measurement in upper elementary school years (grade 4-6). ...
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Estimates of the Prevalence of Speech and Motor Speech Disorders in Adolescents with Down syndrome (CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS, 2019-08)Although there is substantial rationale for a motor component in the speech of persons with Down syndrome (DS), there presently are no published estimates of the prevalence of subtypes of motor speech disorders in DS. The ...
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(2017-08-10)Department: PsychologyStigma is a feature of many chronic health conditions, contributing to a “hidden burden of illness” that compounds the negative impact of a health condition on physical and mental well-being. The current study used a ...
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(2022-05-12)Purpose: The long-term goal of this line of inquiry is to develop an ecologically valid and efficient measure of speech sound accuracy in connected speech that is suitable for use in clinical practice for children aged ...
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(2009-03-30)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study investigated the experiences of preservice teachers within a program of teacher education and considered the interaction of the spaces and discourses therein during a semester of student teaching. The study built ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: Special EducationFindings of recent studies suggest variations in performance across reading comprehension tests may be a product of differences among assessment dimensions (e.g., response format, genre) or child skills (e.g., Francis, ...
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(Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019-07-19)The impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on procedural memory has received significantly less attention than declarative memory. Although to date studies on procedural memory have yielded mixed findings, many rehabilitation ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThis thesis examines the tensions between the social determinants of health framework and structural competency in medical education. It proposes an online assessment tool that can be used to measure one’s ability to ...
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(2022-08)The study uses quantitative methods to examine teacher assessment conceptions, practices, and the relationship between the two at The Jade Coast Academy. Motivated by observations of highly variable assessment practices ...
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(2008-07-14)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation explores a framework for effective school leadership that is connected with research, standards and current practices in the United States, and investigates its cross-cultural generalizability both ...
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(2017-03-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityMuch of the research on vocabulary development in preschool children has focused on the dimension of breadth, or the number of words known. However, vocabulary depth, or the quality of knowledge for known words, predicts ...