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• Japan student poll ‘could be used to blame universities’ on English language issue | Times Higher Education (THE)

  "The 2019 EF English Proficiency Index, released in November, ranked Japan 53rd in the world, down from 49th last year, placing the world’s third-largest economy between developing nations like Vietnam and Pakistan. More alarming is the drop from 2011, when Japan had fewer competitors internationally and was ranked 14th" (¶10, 2019.12.09).

• Enjoyable Testing that Works, Really - Language Magazine

  "It is an assessment, formative or summative (your choice), with at least three tasks involving only one theme or concept (vocabulary, grammar, or cultural) and one of each of the three modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. The three tasks are designed for students at their level of proficiency (novice, intermediate, or advanced). All use culturally authentic resources as well..." (What is an IPA?, ¶1).

  tags: assessment authenticity culture definitions grammar integrated performance assessment (IPA) interpersonal interpretive presentational proficiency vocabulary

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• What Teachers Can Do to Boost Student Motivation - Education Week

  "Researchers have identified four specific ways to nurture a sense of intrinsic motivation in students. In this video series, educators and authors Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski discuss these elements: autonomy, which is helping learners feel that they have a choice in what they do and how they do it; competence, or creating situations in which students feel that they are capable of doing what they are being asked to do; relatedness, or doing activities that help students connect to others; and relevance, or making work seem interesting, valuable, and useful to students’ everyday lives" (¶1).

  tags: autonomy competence education motivation relatedness relevance teaching

• An evaluation of course evaluations

  Stark, Phillip B., & Freishtat, Richard. (2014.09.26). An evaluation of course evaluations. ScienceOpen.

  tags: course evaluations higher education research

• Bias Against Female Instructors

  "New analysis offers more evidence against student evaluations of teaching" (deck).

  tags: biases course evaluations higher education

• Study attempts to debunk criticisms of student evaluations of teaching

  tags: course evaluations higher education

• A Taxonomy of Inclusive Design: On Disclosure, Accessibility, and Inclusion | EDUCAUSE

  "This series will explore concepts, practices, and organizational shifts that are central to inclusive pedagogy in higher education."

  tags: accessibility design disclosure higher education learning inclusion pedagogy praxis teaching theory

  • students in our classes have all kinds of invisible circumstances that can impact their learning
  • an accessible text is one that is clearly organized, uses an unembellished font, and incorporates headings to separate sections
  • Online images should contain alternative text for moments when pages don't load properly or for readers who use assistive devices
  • Videos should include closed captions or transcripts for people with hearing issues or attention/tracking problems, as well as for those who multitask
  • inclusion means designing and teaching for variability

• Moving a Taxonomy of Inclusive Design from Theory to Practice | EDUCAUSE

  "This is the second post in a series that explores concepts, practices, and organizational shifts that are central to inclusive pedagogy in higher education."

  tags: accessibility design learning inclusion pedagogy praxis teaching theory

• Switching to Docs from Microsoft Word - G Suite Learning Center

  Menu of instructions for Google users and collaborators leaving Word behind

  tags: change tracking collaboration editing for readers for writers formatting file sharing

• EdWebinar Resources - Google Docs

  Resources from An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning

  tags: accessibility flexibility learning resources universal design

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• EF EPI 2019 - EF English Proficiency Index - Asia

  "Room for improvement: For decades, Asia has been the workshop of the world, fueling economic development across the region. But a transition from manufacturing to knowledge-driven growth will require better English."

  tags: Asia Education First English English Proficiency Index (EPI) language proficiency

• PIGATE's next monthly gathering: Dec. 14th, 13:30-16:30 - Google Groups

  tags: academic writing conference proposals reviewing

• https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/week/2019/12/24?tab=oc

  tags: academic writing conference proposals reviewing

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• How to Review Conference Proposals (and Why You Should Bother) - Sarah Theule Lubienski,

  Lubienski, Sarah Theule. (2019.11.20). How to Review Conference Proposals (and Why You Should Bother). Educational Researcher.

  tags: academic writing conference proposals reviewing

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• How to Review Conference Proposals (and Why You Should Bother) - Sarah Theule Lubienski,

  Lubienski, Sarah Theule. (2019.11.20). How to Review Conference Proposals (and Why You Should Bother). Educational Researcher.

  tags: academic writing conference proposals reviewing

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• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  "The IPCC was created to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation options" (2019.11.21).

  tags: assessments climate change environment global issues implications Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) international risks mitigation science United Nations

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• Why Teacher Autonomy Is Central to Coaching Success - Educational Leadership

  Knight, Jim. (2019). Why Teacher Autonomy Is Central to Coaching Success. _Educational Leadership, 77_(3), 14-20. http://ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/nov19/vol77/num03/Why-Teacher-Autonomy-Is-Central-to-Coaching-Success.aspx

  tags: autonomy coaching education leadership success

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• Genre: A Different Approach to Academic Writing | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  Excerpt from Ch. 10 of Clark and Sousa (2018) Clark, Alexander; & Sousa, Bailey. (2018). How to Be a Happy Academic. London, UK: Sage Publications.

  tags: academic writing approaches audiences genre guidelines rhetoric

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• How to avoid being sucked into the black hole of administration | Times Higher Education (THE)

  "[M]uch more of the administrative burden is placed on faculty these days, largely because more and more departments are staffed by adjuncts and part-time instructors, meaning that there are fewer and fewer tenured faculty able to serve as administrators (a role that, coincidentally, involves managing that adjunct labour with virtually zero power to introduce improvements to its cruel conditions)" (The Law Governed Universe, ¶6).

  tags: adjuncts administrative work faculty development higher education

• How to Teach Students to Give Peer Feedback | Edutopia

  "To make peer feedback more focused and meaningful, I’ve found it helpful to define quality feedback, provide structured routines, and teach feedback as I would any other core skill" (Gardner, 2019, ¶3).

  tags: feedback how to modeling scaffolding skills writing

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• Are immigrant students disproportionately consuming educational resources?

  tags: immigration resources

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• Corpus linguistics in TESOL: Doing what works

  Overview of corpus linguistics resources technology for teaching

  tags: corpora linguistics teaching TESOL

• Microsoft Word - 2011_08_10_newby_layout.doc

  tags: formative evaluation learning portfolios summative evaluation teacher development teachers teaching

• Teaching Portfolios | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University

  tags: formative evaluation learning portfolios summative evaluation teacher development teachers teaching

• Teaching Portfolios: Documenting Teaching: Teaching Resources: Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning: Indiana University Bloomington

  tags: formative evaluation learning portfolios summative evaluation teacher development teachers teaching

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• Open Broadcaster Software | OBS

  "Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming" (deck, 2019.09.18)

  tags: freeware Linux live streaming Mac recording video production Windows

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Education at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD]. (2019). Education at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators. Paris, FR: OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/f8d7880d-en.

Note: Though the OECD's embedding code generator failed to provide an end iframe component at any of the three sizees available (2019.09.18 [JST]), with a bit of code added, this auto-sized transclusion of OECD (2019) appears to be working in a preview.

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• Emergence of Complexity, Fluency, and Accuracy in the Oral and Written Production of Five Chinese Learners of English | Applied Linguistics | Oxford Academic

  Larsen-Freeman, Diane. (2006). The emergence of complexity, fluency, and accuracy in the oral and written production of five Chinese learners of English. Applied Linguistics, 27(4), 590–619. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/aml029

  tags: accuracy complexity complexity theory Larsen-Freeman Diane linguistics speaking tasks writing

  • These indices have been determined to be best measures of second language development in writing (see, for example, Larsen-Freeman and Strom 1977; Wolfe-Quintero et al. 1998).
    • DATA ANALYSES: Quantitative, ¶1
  • from the vantage point of a complex systems approach, improved performance is not merely a question of a learner's enhanced access to his or her steady-state competence. A learner/user's language resources (competence, if you must) change synchronously with their use.
    • Discussion, ¶3
  • One of the tenets of this approach is that it is at the bifurcations or discontinuities, when the process is relatively unstable or chaotic, that the organism is free to explore new behaviors in response to task demands
    • Discussion, ¶4
  • We need to look at the ‘messy little details’ that make up the ‘here and now’ of real time. We need to take into account learners’ goals and intentions. We need to consider the tasks that we ask them to perform and to consider each performance anew—stable and predictable in part, but at the same time, variable, flexible, and dynamically adapted to fit the situation
    • Conclusion, ¶2

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Étude 001: Linguistic proficiency

This post transcludes a Google Doc that in turn transcludes a chart from a Google Sheet.



Hopefully I can find a way to make the viewing window in this post wider and taller than it is.

For now, it'll be easier to read the doc. itself: http://bit.ly/Étude-001

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• AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair

  tags: AI biases fairness information racism sexism

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• Strategies for Diving into Successful Grading Reform

  In this article, Jay C. Percell outlined "issues at stake, address[ed] ... common hesitancies ..., and offer[ed] ... tips for success ... gleaned ... [from] 15 years of alternative grading" (¶2).

  tags: education grading reform teaching practices tips

• Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens

  "[S]tudies point to better reading comprehension from printed material..." (deck). "[R]esults from 33 high-quality studies that tested students' comprehension ... showed that students of all ages, from elementary school to college, tend to absorb more when they're reading on paper than on screens, particularly when it comes to nonfiction material" (Barshay, ¶¶ 3-4). That is, without the extra bells and whistles that digital texts can potentially offer" (¶10). "Still, there isn't yet convincing proof that the digital add-ons improve reading comprehension or even match the reading comprehension that students can achieve with text on paper" (¶12). Barshay, Jill. (2019.08.12). Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens [online news report]. https://hechingerreport.org/evidence-increases-for-reading-on-paper-instead-of-screens/

  tags: education learning online text printed matter reading comprehension research technology

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A Perfect World Is One with No Grades

"To best report learning without the evaluative and sorting/ranking issues surrounding grades, students need to describe (a) what they tried to learn and why, (b) how well they learned it, and (c) how they know (what evidence they have)" (Brookhart, 2019, Support and Report Learning without Grades, ¶2).

Brookhart, Susan M. (2019). A Perfect World Is One with No Grades. ASCD Express, Vol. 14, No. 31. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol14/num31/a-perfect-world-is-one-with-no-grades.aspx

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• A Snapshot of Instructional Design: Talking Points for a Field in Transition | EDUCAUSE

  "As recognition of the potential of instructional design to influence student experience and success grows, so do expectations placed on instructional designers themselves" (¶2).

  tags: Educause instructional design

• 10 Student-Tested Chrome Extensions | Edutopia

  All free or with premium options!

  tags: browsers Chrome Edutopia extensions free tools

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• Senior Mosaic Fellows and an Evolving Approach to Faculty Development | EDUCAUSE

  "Once Fellows graduate, they're under no obligation to continue with the Mosaic community. Most of these faculty members still engage with us; however, they often ebb out of and back into the community as commitments allow. The freedom from obligation enables Fellows to choose how and when they wish to participate with us"

  tags: communities education legitimate peripheral participation

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