What examiners do: what thesis students should know     

Clinton Golding  Sharon Sharmini  Ayelet Lazarovitch 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2014,39(5):563-576

Although many articles have been written about thesis assessment, none provide a comprehensive, general picture of what examiners do as they assess a thesis. To synthesise this diverse literature, we reviewed 30 articles, triangulated their conclusions and identified 11 examiner practices. Thesis examiners tend to be broadly consistent in their practices and recommendations; they expect and want a thesis to pass, but first impressions are also very important. They read with academic expectations and the expectations of a normal reader. Like any reader, thesis examiners get annoyed and distracted by presentation errors, and they want to read a work that is a coherent whole. As academic readers, examiners favour a thesis with a convincing approach that engages with the literature and the findings, but they require a thesis to be publishable research. Finally, examiners give not only a final evaluation of a thesis, but also instruction and advice to improve the thesis and further publications and research. We hope that these generalisations will demystify the often secret process of assessing a thesis, and reassure, guide and encourage students as they write their theses.  相似文献   

Skills for Instructional Design Professionals     

James D. Klein  Sharon Jun 《Performance Improvement》2014,53(2):41-46

Competent instructional designers must have specific skills to successfully facilitate learning and to improve the performance of individuals and organizations. While some authors and professional organizations have identified the capabilities required for effective instructional designers, only a few have validated these skills by collecting data from actual practitioners. The purpose of this article is to discuss the results of a research study we conducted to identify and empirically validate competencies for instructional design professionals.  相似文献   

Toward High-Performance Communications Interfaces for Science Problem Solving   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Sharon L. Oviatt  Adrienne O. Cohen 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(6):515-531

From a theoretical viewpoint, educational interfaces that facilitate communicative actions involving representations central to a domain can maximize students’ effort associated with constructing new schemas. In addition, interfaces that minimize working memory demands due to the interface per se, for example by mimicking existing non-digital work practice, can preserve students’ attentional focus on their learning task. In this research, we asked the question: What type of interface input capabilities provide best support for science problem solving in both low- and high-performing students? High school students’ ability to solve a diverse range of biology problems was compared over longitudinal sessions while they used: (1) hardcopy paper and pencil (2) a digital paper and pen interface (3) pen tablet interface, and (4) graphical tablet interface. Post-test evaluations revealed that time to solve problems, meta-cognitive control, solution correctness, and memory all were significantly enhanced when using the digital pen and paper interface, compared with tablet interfaces. The tangible pen and paper interface also was the only alternative that significantly facilitated skill acquisition in low-performing students. Paradoxically, all students nonetheless believed that the tablet interfaces provided best support for their performance, revealing a lack of self-awareness about how to use computational tools to best advantage. Implications are discussed for how pen interfaces can be optimized for future educational purposes, and for establishing technology fluency curricula to improve students’ awareness of the impact of digital tools on their performance.  相似文献   

Citizenship discourse in Hong Kong: The limits of familial tropes     

Shui-yin Sharon Yam 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2018,104(1):1-21

This article traces how citizenship in Hong Kong is constructed via familial tropes that privilege sameness and a politics of identification; this rhetorical representation, I argue, not only perpetuates a jus sanguinis model of citizenship that privileges ethnic blood ties, but also allows the state and the dominant citizenry to justify neoliberal and racist practices that exclude brown bodies. By analyzing the citizenship claims made by the marginalized South Asian community in Hong Kong and the subsequent responses they receive from the mainstream public, I demonstrate that racialized populations face a rhetorical double bind: on the one hand, they must deploy the familial metaphors commonly used by the existing citizenry to demonstrate their sense of belonging, but, on the other hand, such tropes reinscribe them in a power hierarchy that undermines their subjectivity. This case study illuminates that while it is commonly seen as a viable rhetorical tactic for marginalized rhetors to resist and participate, the repurposing and redeployment of dominant tropes have significant limitations as they are constricted by power structures that are staunchly in place.  相似文献   

Strategic Planning: From Training to Performance Technology Within Three Years     

Karolyn A. Smalley  Sharon Inman  Mary Jo DeJong 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1995,8(2):114-124

Many corporate Human Resource Development (HRD) department staff are type-cast as trainers. They have tried to become human performance technologists and have found it difficult to accomplish. This article describes how developing and implementing a set of strategic plans guided one HRD department through its evolution from delivering conventional training to delivering multiple performance improvement interventions. It will show how projects were selected, developed, and managed over a three-year period to meet the customer's critical business issues and the HRD department's strategic plan.  相似文献   

Disciplinary discourse in doctoral theses     

Sharon Parry 《Higher Education》1998,36(3):273-299

This paper discusses stylistic conventions within broad disciplinary groupings in the language of doctoral theses. It argues that the language conventions in doctoral thesis texts reflect spohisticated learning of key disciplinary norms governing the conception, production and reporting of knowledge in particular fields. The paper shows that many conventions are subtle; they may not be readily identifiable to experienced scholars, yet doctoral students are expected to learn and master them, suggesting that discipline-specific writing norms and conventions are learned largely by tacit means during doctoral study. The paper reviews the nature of linguistic forms in doctoral theses and identifies the underlying epistemological and cultural influences which shape the writing. Doctoral theses from a range of disciplines are examined closely. Attention particularly is directed to the overall structure of argument and the techniques for coherence; the conventions for citing, acknowledging and making judgements about previous research; and the nature of the technical language of the field.  相似文献   

Criterion‐referenced test development: Technical and legal guidelines for corporate training and certification     

Sharon Shrock  William Coscarelli  James D. Russell 《Performance Improvement》2002,41(5):47-49

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Mullen Scales of Early Learning     

Sharon Bradley-Johnson 《Psychology in the schools》1997,34(4):379-382

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Changes in Child-Teacher Relationships in a Therapeutic Preschool Program   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Carollee Howes  Sharon Ritchie 《Early education and development》1998,9(4):411-422

The purpose of this paper was to examine the processes and outcomes of teacher-child attachment relationship formation in a therapeutic preschool. Although the average child did not form a secure teacher-child attachment relationship, as a group and over time children became more secure in their teacher-child attachment relationships. Children who were least secure, most avoidant, and most resistant in their initial teacher-child relationship were the children who moved the most rapidly towards security. Children who moved the most rapidly towards security were the least resistant, and most likely to seek comfort within their teacher-child relationships by the final data collection point.  相似文献   

Consolidating needs assessment and evaluation saving time and money     

Sharon J. Korth 《Performance Improvement》2001,40(1):38-43

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