Improving Test scores. What teachers can do?
Burns, David J. “Will do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students`expectations.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8. 3 (2008): 1-19. The relation between students` expectations and final results is the leitmotiv of this analysis in which David J. Burns tries to support that there are internal and external factors that would impede success at the end of the road. The researcher assumes that students are more affected by mental factors and their abilities are connected to their actions which have nothing to do with final scores. Higher or lower results are more than a demonstration of the amount of knowledge that students manage. However, there are not clear evidences about the positive effects of high expectations in students’ minds. In fact, those constructions are part of the environment which promotes diffuse theories without any support and less evidence that affects the learning process and the possibility of teaching in a clean and proactive scenario.
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1. - The summary of the annotation is completely true to the article. Moreover, the best part of this annotation is that it invites you to read the whole article, what is good. However, there is not link to the topic of the paper.
ReplyDelete2. - The annotation is well organized, in fact, it does not omit none of the major points in the article itself.
3. - It is so specific but to the article. unfortunately, there is not a critic or more information that tells you. which part of the article is going to be used in the paper.
4. - no
5. - Yes, it is strictely connected to the MLA style
This summary uses only the main idea of the article, being totally true to the original one. However, there were some important ideas that are not included in this summary. So I am not sure if you can call this work a summary.
ReplyDeleteI believe this piece of writing has a very good reflection about what tests are used for: not only knowledge.
It is very well organized. You can see clearly the main idea, some critique and conclusion.
I think the annotation is a little vague and it has to do with the missing parts of the summary itself.
Yes, I believe there is a very good critique about knowledge and how this can be used in the paper. It opens the door for research many other elements that would affect the test’s scores.
There is a good MLA style in the citation and writing.
Paulina, you cannot simply say "yes" or "no"! The directions explicitly stated that you must explain your answers!
ReplyDeleteHere the correction goes, check it out.
ReplyDeleteImproving Test scores. What teachers can do? W.F. (If it is a question, it should be “what can teachers do?” or of it is a statement, “what teachers can do”)
Burns, David J. “Will do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students`expectations.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8. 3 (2008): 1-19. The relation between students` expectations and final results is the leitmotiv (it doesn’t say anything about the correction of this kind of things, but I THINK that this word, since it has a latin root, should be in italics) of this analysis in which David J. Burns tries to support that there are internal and external factors that would impede success at the end of the road. The researcher assumes that students are more affected by mental factors and that their abilities are connected to their actions which have nothing to do with final scores. Higher or lower results are more than a demonstration of the amount of knowledge that students manage. However, there are not clear evidences about the positive effects of high expectations in students’ minds. In fact, those constructions are part of the environment which promotes diffuse theories without any support and (less W.W.) evidence that affects the learning process and the possibility of teaching in a (clean W.W.) and proactive scenario.