Development of Science Test Items
IPST has responsible for improving quality of teaching and learning in Science, Mathematics and Technology, emphasis on K-12 levels. To achieve this objective, Standard andAssessment Department has been working on…
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The persistence of vision
There is a significant and growing body of research that indicates teachers’, conceptions of assessment affect their professional relationship to and literacy in assessment. This study examines how a graduate-level…
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN MALAYSIAN PERSPECTIVE: INSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT
Malaysian multicultural society is typified by three major ethnic groups, namely Malays, Chinese and Indians. Education system is the best tool for these three major of ethnic groups will work…
Learning Levels of Grade V Students in Environmental Studies
The Department of Educational Measurement and Evaluation of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an autonomous organisation under the Government of India. This department conducts the National…
CONTROLLING YOUR SELF-CONTROL – MYTHS AND REALITIES OF TRUE ASSESSMENT IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
The aim of this paper is to highlight the challenges of assessment systems in the fast growing and dynamic educational sector and suggests solutions to handle it at a global…
Negotiating the context in multicultural classrooms in South Africa
Teaching English as a Home Language in the South African context is fraught with challenge because students are drawn from a diverse variety of cultural backgrounds. Even though English is…
An Investigation of International Science Achievement Using the OECD’s PISA 1 2006 Data Set
This study uses hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to analyze data from PISA 2006 for nations experiencing high rates of immigration (i.e., Germany, Spain, Canada, the United States,Australia and New Zealand).…
The significance of international comparison of student achievement
Governments, Educators and parents worldwide are increasingly becoming ,interested in international comparisons’, of student achievement. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)…
Instruction and assessment in multicultural contexts – A Case Study of 14 years as a Teacher and Examiner in a multicultural International School.
Instructing students and assessing their work involves teacher assessment, in so far as student-centeredness is concerned. What are instructions, their purposes and objectives in amulticultural context? How do these affect…
A Look at Indigenizing Assessment
 ,This paper follows the evolution of the Diversity Assessment Rubric at the University of Hawai‘,i at Hilo.By describing the difficult process of negotiating competing perspectives—,one promoting universal ,multiculturalism, the other maintaining…