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Design Your Course Syllabus

by Deepshikha Singh
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| Curriculum, Examinations, Teachers
December 24, 2010

COURSE DESIGNING TIPS FOR TEACHERS In preparing a course syllabus, it is helpful for teachers to consider the following questions: 1. What is your purpose in this course? What do you hope to teach the students? What is the single most important thing you hope they will leave the course...
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Tips for Taking Tests and Quizzes

by Deepshikha Singh
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| Evaluation and Assessment, Examinations, Teachers
December 12, 2010

The most effective teachers assess student learning often. This discourages student procrastination and cramming and provides a more accurate assessment of student learning. These are some tips that you need to get through for taking test and quizzes of your students: 1. Strive for higher order levels of thinking in...
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Students’ Assessment through Portfolio

by Deepshikha Singh
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| CCE, Evaluation and Assessment
December 9, 2010

Portfolio Assessment Portfolios are becoming an important means of assessment in many schools. In some cases, they are used as a basic or sole, method of performance assessment. In others, they provide another useful tool in the teachers’ assessment kit. A portfolio is a collection of student work that has...
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Terminologies related with types of Assessment

by Deepshikha Singh
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| CCE, Evaluation and Assessment
June 16, 2010

Assessment gives measure of learning at a given point of time. Relevant skills, knowledge and/or attitudes can be measured towards a subject or qualification. There are many different assessment methods, including tests, exams, assignments, observation, etc. There are also different types of assessment. They will usually be stated in the...
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Volume 3 Month 1 Day 12- Student Self-Assessment

by Deepshikha Singh
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| Articles, Evaluation and Assessment
January 12, 2010

Self-Assessment is the most overlooked, yet possibly most valuable aspect of assessment for students at all levels and in all fields. Self-assessment encourages students to reflect on their learning and results in their consciously improving how they learn. Because self-assessment is new for most students, instructors can implement strategies to...
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Volume 3 Month 1 Day 3- Stress-Free Study for Examinations

by Deepshikha Singh
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| Examinations
January 3, 2010

Studying for finals and midterms tends to be automatically linked with stress. In fact, where stress is already built into a situation where you need to call up all the important information that you have learned in each of several classes over the course of several months, the last thing...
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