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Research Journal
Read - Think
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Using Information Effectively in Education
Tricia Ryan, Instructor
Research Journal #1
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Name: Lauren
Briggs |
Section: 007 |
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Bibliographical Information |
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Title of Source: Multiple Choice |
Full Name of Author: Naomi Dillon |
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Subtitle |
Journal Name/ Series Name/ Multi-volume Work/ Page Numbers:
American School Board Journal / Volume: 193 /
Pages 22-25 |
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City and State of Publication: |
Publisher: EBSCO publishing |
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Date / Year of Publication: January, 2006 |
URL: |
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Date Retrieved from
the Web: March 1, 2006 |
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Citation in APA style: Dillon, Naomi. (2006,
January). Multiple choice. American School Board Journal, 193,
22-25. Retrieved March 1, 2006, from Academic Search/EBSCO database. |
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Interpretation of the
Article |
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Topic:
Multiple choice assessments |
What is the author's main point? The main point of
this source is how assessments discriminate against different cultures
and minority groups and also how assessments are historic. |
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What does the author say? The author talks about
how assessments need to be updated in order to understand a student’s
growing knowledge. |
What do I think? I think this source will help me
to evaluate bias that certain assessments may have against different
cultures. It will also help me to understand assessments in the past as
opposed to current day. |
Research Journal format based
partially on information taken from Research Writing, Using Traditional and
Electronic Sources
by Nancy L. Joseph.
Research Journal #2
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Bibliographical Information |
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Title of Source: Reliability of educational
assessments: the case of classification on accuracy. |
Full Name of Author: Peter Nystrom |
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Subtitle |
Journal Name/ Series Name/ Multivolume Work/ Page Numbers:
Scandanavian Journal of Educational Research /
Volume: 48 / Pages 427-440 |
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City and State of Publication |
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing |
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Date / Year of Publication: September, 2004 |
URL |
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Date Retrieved from
the Web: March 6, 2006 |
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Citation in APA style: Nystrom, Peter. (2004,
September). Reliability of educational assessments: the case of
classification on accuracy. Scandanavian Journal of Educational
Research, 48, 427-440. Retrieved March 6, 2006, from Academic
Search/EBSCO database. |
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Interpretation of the
Article |
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Topic:
Accuracy and effectiveness of educational
assessments |
What is the author's main point? The main point of
this article is to help the reader understand the various uses of
assessments in an educational environment. |
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What does the author say? The author talks about
grading accuracy and the effectiveness that performance assessment have
on determining a student’s knowledge and learning abilities. |
What do I think? This article is a good source in
determining the negatives of assessments in the classroom. It will help
me understand overall how the method of estimating the magnitude of
accuracy is developed. |
Research Journal format based
partially on information taken from Research Writing, Using Traditional and
Electronic Sources
by Nancy L. Joseph.
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