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Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-04T13:39:16Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação 3.pdf: 2039878 bytes, checksum: df82cd19b9f43736fd390b56b791e7e7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-04T13:39:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação 3.pdf: 2039878 bytes, checksum: df82cd19b9f43736fd390b56b791e7e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / FACEPE / Trata das relações entre pesquisadores especializados e os critérios de seleção de fontes de informações na internet. Objetiva em propor critérios atualizados para a avaliação e seleção de fontes de informações na internet para pesquisadores especializados na área de saúde. Para tanto, se delineiam os seguintes objetivos específicos: I) identificar, a partir de revisão bibliográfica, critérios de avaliação de fontes de informação disponíveis na internet voltados a pesquisadores; II) elaborar critérios de avaliação de fontes de informação baseados em literatura científica internacional; III) validar os critérios propostos a partir de questionários aplicados a pesquisadores do Instituto de Comunicação e Tecnologia em Saúde (ICICT) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz). A pesquisa é caracterizada como exploratória e metodológica, uma vez, que objetiva construir um percurso metodológico evidenciando critérios para avaliação da qualidade das fontes de informação para pesquisadores especializados. Como resultado constata-se que, os pesquisadores da saúde desconhecem critérios específicos para a avaliação de fontes e utilizam de suas experiências para avaliar informações recuperadas. / Deals with the relationship between expert researchers and the criteria for selection of information sources on the Internet. It aims to propose updated criteria for evaluation and selection of information sources on the Internet to specialized researchers in healthcare. Therefore, this dissertation has the following specific goals: I) identify, from literature review, information sources evaluation criteria available on the Internet aimed at researchers; II) develop criteria for evaluation of information sources based on international scientific literature; III) validate the criteria proposed from questionnaires given to researchers from the Institute of Communication and Technology in Health (ICICT) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). The research is characterized as exploratory and methodological, its goal was to build a methodological approach showing criteria for evaluation the quality of information sources for specialized researchers. As a result, it was observed that health researchers don‟t know specific criteria for assessing sources and use their experiences to evaluate information retrieved.

In measuring second language learners’ writing proficiency, test takers’ performance on a particular assessment task is evaluated by raters using a set of criteria to generate writing scores. The scores are used by teachers, students, and parents to make inferences about their performance levels in real-life writing situations. To examine the accuracy of this inference, it is imperative that we investigate the sources of measurement error involved in the writing score. It is also important to ensure rater consistency, both within a single rater and between raters, to provide evidence that the scores are valid indicators of tested constructs. This mixed methods research addressed the validity of integrated listening-to-write (L-W) scores. More specifically, it examined the generalizability of L-W scores and raters’ decision-making processes and scoring challenges. A total of 198 high school English learners in Taiwan completed up to two L-W tasks, each of which required them to listen to an academic lecture and respond to a related writing prompt in English. Nine raters who had experience teaching English evaluated each student’s written materials using a holistic scale. This study employed a univariate two-facet random effects generalizability study (p × t × r) to investigate the effects of tasks and raters on the score variance. Subsequent decision studies (p × T × R) estimated standard error of measurement and generalizability coefficients. Post-rating stimulated recall interview data were analyzed qualitatively to explore raters’ alignment of rating scale descriptors, decision-making behaviors, and scoring challenges. The results indicated that the majority of score variance was explained by test takers’ ability difference in academic writing proficiency. The raters were similar in their stringency and did not contribute much to score variance. Due to a relatively large magnitude of person-by-task interaction effect, increasing the number of tasks, rather than raters, resulted in a much lower degree of error and higher degree of score generalizability. The ideal assessment procedure to achieve an acceptable level of score generalizability would be to administer two L-W tasks scored by two raters. When evaluating written materials for L-W tasks, nine raters primarily focused on the content of the essays and paid less attention to language-related features. The raters did not equally consider all aspects of essay features described in the holistic rubric. The most prominent scoring challenges included 1) assigning a holistic score while balancing students’ listening comprehension skills and writing proficiency and 2) assessing the degree of students’ successful reproduction of lecture content. The findings of this study have practical and theoretical implications for integrated writing assessments for high school EFL learners.

The master’s thesis deals with the topic of the use of artificial intelligence for managerial decision making in the firm. This thesis contains proposal of model of fuzzy logic in MS Excel and MATLAB for evaluation of the client’s solvency of bank for the purposes of loan providing.

This study deals with the testing and grading of Swedish school leaving students’ oral proficiency in English, and with certain aspects of these students’ linguistic competence. The analyses and results are based on material drawn from an assessment project carried out at Gothenburg University in 1993. The 29 students taking part in the project were interviewed three times by three different interviewers in tests comprising three tasks, similar in structure but different in content. The interviewers were of three categories: school teachers of English, university teachers of English and native speakers of English. The student production was graded on a five-point scale according to a set of rating criteria. The interviewers assigned generally positive but often differing grades to the student performance. The grades were influenced by the students’ ability to communicate and speak with flow, and by gaps in vocabulary and by occurrences of grammatical errors. The students’ use of discourse phenomena and compensatory strategies was also of importance to the grades assigned. Many students were considered to have acceptable intonation and rhythm, but nevertheless an evident Swedish accent. The linguistic features studied comprised the verbal group, vocabulary, discourse markers and pronunciation. Differences could be observed between the members of the interviewer categories regarding the grades they assigned to student production. The school teachers seem to have paid special attention to grammatical accuracy, and the native speakers appear to have had a notion of communicative competence where accuracy plays a less important role. Differences in the grades assigned could also be explained by the order in which the interviews were made, by some students’ hesitant delivery, by the positive or negative effect of various fillers in the students’ speech, and by the interviewing methods used by the interviewers in the tests.

<p>This study deals with the testing and grading of Swedish school leaving students’ oral proficiency in English, and with certain aspects of these students’ linguistic competence. The analyses and results are based on material drawn from an assessment project carried out at Gothenburg University in 1993.</p><p>The 29 students taking part in the project were interviewed three times by three different interviewers in tests comprising three tasks, similar in structure but different in content. The interviewers were of three categories: school teachers of English, university teachers of English and native speakers of English. The student production was graded on a five-point scale according to a set of rating criteria.</p><p>The interviewers assigned generally positive but often differing grades to the student performance. The grades were influenced by the students’ ability to communicate and speak with flow, and by gaps in vocabulary and by occurrences of grammatical errors. The students’ use of discourse phenomena and compensatory strategies was also of importance to the grades assigned. Many students were considered to have acceptable intonation and rhythm, but nevertheless an evident Swedish accent. The linguistic features studied comprised the verbal group, vocabulary, discourse markers and pronunciation. </p><p>Differences could be observed between the members of the interviewer categories regarding the grades they assigned to student production. The school teachers seem to have paid special attention to grammatical accuracy, and the native speakers appear to have had a notion of communicative competence where accuracy plays a less important role.</p><p>Differences in the grades assigned could also be explained by the order in which the interviews were made, by some students’ hesitant delivery, by the positive or negative effect of various fillers in the students’ speech, and by the interviewing methods used by the interviewers in the tests.</p>

Syftet är att undersöka sånglärares uppfattningar om och kommunikation av betygskriterier i sång på gymnasieskolans estetiska program. I bakgrundskapitlet presenteras litteratur och forskning kring begrepp som är centrala för studien. Det har ännu inte publicerats någon forskning om de betygskriterier som i föreliggande studie utgörs av de subjektiva skrivningarna ”personligt uttryck” och ”tillfredsställande musikaliskt resultat”. I arbetet har kvalitativa intervjuer använts som forskningsmetod. Intervjuer gjordes med tre sånglärare som har betygsatt elever enligt de betygskriterier som står i fokus för denna studie. Resultatet pekar på att personligt uttryck kan vara individens personliga uttryck, det uttryck vi har genom att bara vara människa, men i en förhöjd form. Det kan också handla om interpretation. Vidare visar resultatet på att musikaliskt tillfredsställande resultat nås genom grundläggande gehör och formkänsla. Sånglärarna förmedlar betygskriterierna och de kvalitetskrav som följer framförallt genom betygssamtal med eleven. Alla sånglärare betonar även  elevens självständighet och egen drivkraft som förtsättningar för att nå högsta betyg. I diskussionskapitlet jämförs studiens resultat med de teorier och den tidigare forskning som presenterats i bakgrundskapitlet. Avslutningsvis förs diskussioner kring arbetets betydelse och fortsatt forskning inom området. / The purpose is to investigate vocal teachers’ perceptions and communication of the assessment criteria in singing at aesthetic programs in high school. The background chapter presents concepts that are central to the study. It has not yet been published any research on the rating criteria which in the present study consists of the subjective wordings "self-expression" and "musically satisfying results". Qualitative interviews are used as a research method. Interviews were conducted with three singing teachers who rated students according to the rating criteria which are the focus of this study. The results indicate that self-expression may be the individual's personal expression, the expression we have just by being human, but in an enhanced form. It may also involve interpretation. Furthermore, the result shows that musically satisfying results is reached by basic hearing and sense of form. The singing teachers convey rating criteria and the quality mostly by grading conversation with the student. All singing teacher also emphasizes the student's autonomy and its own momentum continuations to achieve the highest rating. The discussion section compares the results of the study of the theories and previous research presented in the background section. Finally, discussions are underway about the importance of the study and continued research in the area