Learning the knowledge and procedures of the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) is a major practical priority for direct-care service providers who work with individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The present study compared the effects of two training conditions involving a self-instructional manual (SIM) alone and its combination with a Web-based computer-aided personalized system of instruction (WebCAPSI) program (SIM plus WebCAPSI) on teaching knowledge and implementation of the ABLA to university students. A multiple-baseline design across training conditions was used. The results indicate that the SIM combined with passing unit tests delivered via WebCAPSI was beneficial for knowledge acquisition while viewing demonstration videos was beneficial for conducting the ABLA. The findings suggest that a combination of a SIM combined with unit tests delivered via WebCAPSI and videos provides an effective approach to teach both knowledge and application of behavioural procedures to potential knowledge users.

Learning the knowledge and procedures of the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) is a major practical priority for direct-care service providers who work with individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The present study compared the effects of two training conditions involving a self-instructional manual (SIM) alone and its combination with a Web-based computer-aided personalized system of instruction (WebCAPSI) program (SIM plus WebCAPSI) on teaching knowledge and implementation of the ABLA to university students. A multiple-baseline design across training conditions was used. The results indicate that the SIM combined with passing unit tests delivered via WebCAPSI was beneficial for knowledge acquisition while viewing demonstration videos was beneficial for conducting the ABLA. The findings suggest that a combination of a SIM combined with unit tests delivered via WebCAPSI and videos provides an effective approach to teach both knowledge and application of behavioural procedures to potential knowledge users.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:09:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 5091661 bytes, checksum: 03cdd0a6de275b04eddcc50e5c3ccf63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study focuses on assessment practices in Science education in elementary school, and the main objective is to analyze the students´ conception of alternative assessment models, especially self-assessment, based on the principles of Ausubel´s theory on Meaningful Verbal Learning. Self-assessment, in this case, happens when the students elaborate Concept maps, and use them as instruments to facilitate learning. The field work focused on the students´ conception of their active participation in the assessment process regarding the content of Mechanic Energy in Natural Sciences. In order to carry out this research, various strategies were used: explanatory class, elaboration of Concept Maps, handling of the learning object, and interviews. The research was supported by the theoretical presuppositions that point to the need to change the scientific work in school and the formative concept of the assessments as a possibility to improve learning, through the Theory of Meaningful Verbal Learning and through the use of the learning object as the pedagogical tendency that facilitates meaningful learning. The methodology applied is an explorative, qualitative approach with field strategies, both in relation to the place where the data was collected and in relation to the cross temporary sources of information. During the collection of data, Concept maps were elaborated by the students and interviews were carried out in order to gather the students´ conceptions of the assessment process. The results show that Concept maps, used as assessment tools, involve the students in an active and meaningful way in the assessment process, which opens possibilities to progress beyond the traditional assessment model based on memorizing information. / A presente pesquisa teve como temática a prática avaliativa na disciplina de Ciências, no Ensino Fundamental, tendo como principal objetivo analisar a concepção de estudantes desse nível de escolaridade acerca da implementação de modelos alternativos de avaliação em Ciências, na perspectiva de auto avaliação, pautada nos princípios da Teoria da Aprendizagem Verbal Significativa Ausubeliana. A auto avaliação, nessa perspectiva, é viabilizada por meio da elaboração de Mapas Conceituais pelo estudante, enquanto instrumento facilitador da aprendizagem. A investigação incidiu sobre a concepção dos estudantes quanto à sua participação no processo avaliativo sobre o conteúdo de Ciências Naturais Energia Mecânica, de forma ativa. Para a efetivação desta pesquisa várias estratégias foram utilizadas: aula explicativa, construção de mapas conceituais, manuseio do objeto de aprendizagem e entrevista. A pesquisa foi subsidiada pelos pressupostos teóricos que apontam para a necessidade de redimensionar o fazer científico na escola, pela concepção formativa de avaliação, enquanto possibilidade de melhoria da aprendizagem, pela Teoria da Aprendizagem Verbal Significativa, pelo uso do OA, enquanto tendência pedagógica facilitadora da aprendizagem significativa. A metodologia utilizada insere-se numa abordagem qualitativa, do tipo exploratória, com estratégias de campo, tanto em relação ao local de coleta de dados quanto às fontes de informação, sendo de temporalidade transversal. Para coleta de dados, foram utilizados os Mapas Conceituais construídos pelos alunos e a realização de entrevistas, com o intuito de levantar a concepção dos estudantes acerca do processo avaliativo. Os resultados apontaram que os Mapas Conceituais, enquanto ferramentas avaliativas, propiciam um envolvimento ativo do estudante no processo, estimulando sua aprendizagem, de modo significativo, oferecendo possibilidades de avanço, na medida em que possibilitam a superação de um modelo de avaliação baseado na memorização de informações.

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The diploma thesis entitled Forms and methods of cooperation with parents is focused on distance learning in the 1st year of elementary school. It represents a method of teaching that was established in March 2020 in connection with the covid-19 pandemics. During the new school year 2020/21, this form de facto became the main educational form. The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the positives and difficulties of distance learning and its specifics in a broader context, especially in terms of methods and forms applied within the cooperation with the family. It is a dynamic material that monitors a longer period of time, and so in connection with the circumstances, the main topic has changed. The work was expanded in a sense of describing the progress in the way of education during the re-closing of schools, thus reflecting the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of parents with the teaching forms and, except for the first year, it also describes the major part of the second year. The theoretical part is focused on three key areas. First, it characterizes distance education, then focuses on the period of entry of the first-graders and, aims to establish suitable ways of communication between the school, family and pupils. The empirical part finds out in several ways whether the school was again...

The diploma thesis focuses on the Learning Stories method and its implementation in a Czech pre-school. Its aim is to explore, document, and analyse how the Learning Stories method is applied into a Czech pre-school as a part of the process of formative assessment. The theoretical part defines assessment in the pre-primary education - its content, and characteristics. Selected assessment tools used in a Czech pre-primary education are introduced. The theoretical part then focuses on the definition of the formative assessment in both Czech and foreign literature, and on the analysis of the Czech Statutory Pre-primary Educational Framework in the relation to the formative assessment. It also describes theoretical background of the Learning Stories method and its use within the international pre-primary education. The empirical part presents the aims of the research project - its methodology and results. Research data were acquired from a content analysis of learning stories and from semi- structured interviews with teachers who have been working with the LS method. Semi- structured interviews focused on how the teachers implemented the LS method in their schools. The content analysis of the learning stories centres on finding out whether the stories about children's learning fulfil the aims of...

The diploma thesis deals with the topic of assessment, introduction of formative evaluation in literature environmental education at grades 5 of elementary school. It focuses on linking the assessment of outcomes of pupils evaluation with real evidence of learning from their work in literature environmental education classes. Through the mediation of action research, it examines possible forms of such evidence for the educational goals, ways and criteria for their assessment. It is based on an analysis of documents created by pupils of grades 5 of elementary school. On the basis of the newly - emerged learnings evidence, it proposes possible further steps in the teaching and evaluation process aimed at improving pupils' search and understanding of literary texts. It analyses the ability of pupils of a particular class to search, link and infer information from text and proposes the further steps in reading lessons within literature environmental education classes, in which pupils develop their reading strategies in a targeted way and move towards the goal using the criteria of success. It examines the possibilities of further work of pupils and teachers with evidence of learning. The work demonstrates the influence of formative assessment on the internal pupils motivation to learn in the sense of a...

The present theoretical-empirical thesis deals with the role of feedback in interpreter training. Its aim is to give an overview of the students' attitude towards feedback, their expectations, preferences and the way they use the elements of feedback in their work outside the classroom. The research part of the study also compares the expectations of two groups of BA and MA students at the Institute of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The theoretical part discusses the general importance of interpreter training. It presents the requirements for teachers of interpreting, recommendations for interpreter training programmes as well as the role of feedback in interpreting classes. It clarifies the role of feedback as a means of teaching interpreting, its components, functions, techniques and types and it concludes with a presentation of recommended feedback methods. The empirical study analyses data collected in a questionnaire including BA and MA interpreting students at the Institute of Translation Studies. The results confirmed some of the recommendations presented in existing literature. The data also suggest that students' attitude towards feedback differs according to their year of study. MA students tend to prefer more general, strategic-oriented and diagnostic feedback,...

Um Lehrende bei der Qualitätssicherung von E-Assessments vor dem Hintergrund des Constructive Alignment zu unterstützen, wurde bereits 2017 das E-Assessment-LiteracyTool (EAs.LiT) entwickelt und vorgestellt (Thor, Pengel, & Wollersheim, 2017). Mit diesem sollte auf Basis hochschulübergreifender Qualitätsstandards im Bereich E-Assessment technische und personelle Unterstützungsstrukturen zur Effektivierung kompetenzorientierter Lernprozesse und damit verbundener Leistungsüberprüfung etabliert werden, um damit auch den Wissens- und Erfahrungsaustausch von Lehrenden zu unterstützen. Im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Verbundvorhabens tech4comp wurde sowohl das Software-Projekt als auch die Anwendung EAs.LiT im Rahmen einer Major Revision grundlegend überarbeitet und erweitert. Neben dem Ausbau der allgemeinen Funktionalität konzentriert sich die Major Revision auf drei primäre Bereiche: die Unterstützung von Nutzer:innen durch vielfältige Automatismen und ein vollkommen überarbeitetes Nutzer:innenführungskonzept, die verlässlichere, validere und ausgewogenere Ausgestaltung erzeugter Prüfungen durch eine multidimensionale, äquivalenzorientierte Prüfungserzeugung, sowie die Schaffung von Integrationsmöglichkeiten und Anwendung dieser bei im deutschen Hochschulraum verbreiteten Lern-Management- und Prüfungssystemen. [Aus: Einleitung]

This paper is concerned with general issues related to social impact modelling and assessment of AI-enabled web-based learning platforms (AILPs) fnanced through public funds. The approach described here sheds new light on the assessment of open-access knowledge repositories, overcoming the difculties associated with the estimation of their fnancial characteristics that limit the usefulness of the well-known social return on investment (SROI) method (Pathak, & Dattani, 2014). Another group of methods, namely those based on innovation difusion models (Li et al., 2020), turned out to be inadequate as they do not fully grasp the network-dependent characteristics of online information difusion and immediate social recommendation propagation n the Internet. A promising research case is the successful implementation of the e-science platform within the recent Horizon 2020 project MOVING. Among the contractual goals of this platform is to leverage knowledge provision for efcient training and research in academia, corporations, and public administration. Thus, social impact goals can be achieved with efcient user community building, which assumes the wide use of existing cooperation networks between potential users, and explores the opportunities provided by social media. [Aus: Problem statement]