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A Comparison of Assessment Practices and Their Effects on Learning and Motivation in a Student-Centered Learning Environment
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, Texas A&M University, United States ; , University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Volume 13, Number 3, ISSN 1055-8896 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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With recent interest in moving from teacher-directed instruction to approaches that incorporate greater opportunities for student-centered learning come concerns that traditional classroom practices associated with assessment and grading may be inappropriate for learning environments grounded in a constructivist perspective. The study reported here compared three different assessment methods used during a student-centered program. Participants were seventh graders who used Alien Rescue, a hypermedia problem-based learning program, over the course of three weeks in their science classes. The effects of the different assessment methods on students' solutions to the problem posed in the software, their performance on a factual knowledge test, and their motivational orientation were examined.

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Pedersen, S. & Williams, D. (2004). A Comparison of Assessment Practices and Their Effects on Learning and Motivation in a Student-Centered Learning Environment. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 13(3), 283-306. Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 13, 2024 from .

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