Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Mary's College'

The amalagamation of St. Mary's College and St. Joseph's High School, Lismore was a process that began in 1965 when a decision was made to combine Senior classes for the first Higher School Certificate curriculum. There was no thought of amalgamation in 1965 but the decision made then lead to the developments of 1977. Increasing enrolments and the need for a building programme set the scene for a merger of Junior classes and the introduction of coeducation throughout the schools. This process extended from 1977 to 1981. It was a period of conflict and resistance to change but it laid the foundation for the complete amalgamation of the schools to form Trinity Catholic College in 1985. The amalgamation process provides a study of decision-making in a Catholic school context. Changes in the Church, Catholic schools and Religious Orders are reflected in the changes in the way that decisions were made at the three key-points in the story. The study draws attention to the fact that in amalgamations of schools much of the planning is done in terms of the present schools rather than for the new school which is always twice as large and much more complex. The non-educational aspects of amalgamation are also considered because they are a time-consuming but important part of the planning. This study shows the importance of rituals in laying the old schools to rest so that the new school may come into being. A visible indication that things are different is essential when the students, staff and buildings remain as they had been. Since amalgamations are becoming more common as student numbers decline some lessons learned over the past twenty years are recorded so that others may benefit from them.

Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent. The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate Church of St Salvator, collegiate plate and relics of the Silver Arrow archery competition); church and college furnishings; artworks (particularly portraits); sculpture; and ethnographic specimens and other items described in University records as ‘curiosities’ held in the University Library from c. 1700-1838. The identification of particular artefacts as significant for certain reasons in certain periods, and their presentation and display, may to some extent reflect the University's values, preoccupations and aspirations in these periods, and, to some degree, its identity. Consciously or subconsciously, the objects can be employed or operate as signifiers of meaning, representing or reflecting matters such as the status, authority and history of the University, its breadth of learning and its interest and influence in spheres from science, art and world cultures to national affairs. This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the growth and development of the University's holdings of 'artefacts of significance' from its foundation to the mid-19th century, and in some cases (especially portraits) beyond this date. It also offers insights into how the University viewed and presented these items and what this reveals about the University of St Andrews, its identity, which changed and developed as the living institution evolved, and the impressions that it wished to project.

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a realização do mecanismo das relações intergenéricas no emprego de marcas proverbiais diferentes formas de apresentação do provérbio na qualidade de gênero do discurso em redações de vestibular, a partir de estudo comparativo do funcionamento discursivo dessas marcas em dois conjuntos de textos, a saber: sessenta redações do vestibular da FUVEST/2006 (tema Trabalho) e sessenta redações do vestibular da FUVEST/2009 (tema Fronteiras), perfazendo o total de 120 textos. Nessas redações, foram reconhecidos os seguintes tipos de registro do provérbio a título de gênero do discurso, por mim denominados marcas proverbiais: (a) construção em que o provérbio aparece integralmente com o uso de aspas e/ou glosa; (b) construção em que o provérbio aparece de forma integral sem o uso de aspas nem de glosa; (c) enunciado organizado a partir da modificação da estrutura de um provérbio; (d) enunciado que alude ao sentido de um provérbio; e (e) construção que reproduz a estrutura de um enunciado proverbial. Sob um olhar enunciativo-discursivo, este trabalho se fundamenta, primordialmente, nos estudos do Círculo de Bakhtin, relacionados à perspectiva dialógica da linguagem e à teoria dos gêneros do discurso; em Maingueneau (1997, 2008b, 2010) em relação às suas considerações sobre as estratégias de captação e de subversão e sobre os aspectos da enunciação proverbial e; em Lysardo-Dias (2004), que compreende o provérbio como um gênero do discurso que se caracteriza pela inserção obrigatória em outro gênero. Os resultados desta pesquisa revelam que o funcionamento discursivo das marcas proverbiais resulta das relações intergenéricas. Esse mecanismo se constata não só pela inserção das marcas proverbiais na redação de vestibular, em que desempenham diversas funções argumentativas, mas também pelo fato de essas marcas apresentarem vestígios de outros gêneros nos quais o provérbio já se instalou. Num caso e no outro, esses vestígios são reconhecíveis tanto no conteúdo temático, quanto na construção composicional e no estilo do gênero. Contrariando a recomendação escolar de evitar o uso de expressões cristalizadas em redações de vestibular, os resultados se apresentam como contribuições para o ensino à medida que: (a) abrem a possibilidade de uma leitura de textos que permite compreendê-los como registros da dinamicidade dos gêneros do discurso; e (b) relativizam aquela recomendação escolar, tendo em vista que a qualidade do texto nem sempre está ligada à ausência de formas cristalizadas.
This research to investigate the mechanism of intergeneric connections, in employment of proverbial brand - different ways of presenting the proverb as a discourse genre - in college entrance essays, from a comparative study of the discursive functioning of these brands into two sets of texts, namely: sixty essays of vestibular FUVEST/2006 (theme Labor) and sixty essays of vestibular FUVEST/2009 (theme Borders), totaling 120 texts. In these essays, were recognized following record types proverb as a discourse genre, for me called proverbial brands: (a) building where the proverb appears entirely with the use of quotation marks and/or gloss, (b) construction in which the proverb appears in full without using quotation marks nor gloss; (c) organized statement from the modification of the structure of a proverb; (d) utterance that alludes to the meaning of a proverb, and (e) construction that reproduces the structure of a proverbial utterance. Under a look enunciative-discursive, this work is based primarily on studies of the Bakhtin Circle, related to the dialogical perspective of language and the theory of speech genres, in Maingueneau (1997, 2008b, 2010) regarding his considerations on strategies for capture and subversion and on aspects of proverbial utterance and, in Lysardo-Dias (2004), who understands the proverb as a genre of discourse that is characterized by mandatory insertion into another genre. The results of this research reveal that the discursive functioning of proverbial brands results from the intergeneric connections. This mechanism turns out not only by the insertion of proverbial brands in writing entrance exam, where they play several argumentative functions, but also because these brands show traces of other genres in which the proverb has already been installed. In one case and in the other, these traces are recognizable both in thematic content, as in the compositional construction and the style of the genre. Contrary to the recommendation of school to avoid using expressions crystallized in college entrance essays, the results are presented as contributions to teaching as: (a) open the possibility of a reading of texts that allows to understand them as records of dynamicity of discourse genres; and (b) relativize that academic recommendation given that the text quality is not always linked to the absence of crystallized forms.

La these elabore un cadre methodologique a une analyse demographique des unions debutees hors mariage et de leur devenir. Elle presente les donnees statistiques qu'il serait necessaire de recueillir, compare avec les donnees existantes dans les pays europeens, preconise des modifications simples des formulaires des systemes d'informations classiques (recensement, etat civil), telles que l'ajout de la date de debut de vie commune dans les bulletins d'enregistrement des mariages et des naissances. Elle comporte une reflexion sur les indices permettant la mesure de ces nouveaux comportements (intensite d'entree en cohabitation hors mariage, de la nuptialite et de la separation des cohabitations). L'auteur a exploite deux enquetes retrospectives francaises pour decrire, dans une perspective longitudinale, comment les etapes de la vie en couple ont change depuis 1970. A l'origine, la cohabitation etait, pour la majorite, une periode precedant le mariage. Au fil des cohortes d'unions, la transformation en union officielle devient une issue moins frequente ou moins rapide. L'augmentation du nombre de couples non maries a entraine l'augmentation du nombre d'enfants nes hors mariage. L'arrivee du premier enfant au sein des unions consensuelles est plus tardive que dans les unions traditionnelles et elle est moins frequente. La baisse de la proportion d'enfants nes dans le mariage n'a donc pas ete compensee par une augmentation equivalente de la fecondite hors mariage. L'auteur cherche ensuite a voir si l'emploi de donnees plus frustres permettrait d'etudier le developpement de la cohabitation hors mariage dans les pays ne disposant pas d'enquetes retrospectives. Il analyse les statistiques de l'etat civil espagnol des naissances hors mariage classees selon le rang de naissance et l'age de la mere depuis 1975. D'apres ces donnees, les unions consensuelles seraient peu nombreuses en espagne et l'accroissement de leur nombre aurait ete stoppe vers 1985
The thesis draws up some methodological models of a demographic analysis about de facto unions and about their future. It presents statistical data which is necessary to obtain reliable measurements; these are compared with available data in europeans countries; and finally recommends useful and easily applicable improvements to the current sources of demographic information (censuses, registration records). For the registration of a marriage or birth, we propose to add a single question such as "the date of the begining of the de facto relationship". Concerning the data analysis, the increased extent of extra-marital cohabitation has weakened the value of indices of couple formation and break up. The author provides some keys to construct better indices in order to measure new behaviors (intensity of formation of consensual union, of eventual subsequent marriage or dissolution). Two french restrospective surveys were used to describe, following a longitudinal perspective, how stages in the life of couples have changed since 1970. At the begining, consensial union was, for the majority, a period which precedented the legislation of the relationship. Following the cohorts from year, the transition from cohabitation to marriage become less likely and more posponed. The number of extra-nuptial births has risen with the increase in a number of unmarried couples. The rate of the first birth within consensual unions is lower than within traditionnal unions and, on average, this event occurs later. The decrease in the of number of legitimate births has not been offset by the increase of births outside marriage. The author then tries to see if the use of more basic data might allow the study of the growth of consensual unions in countries where there are no retrospective surveys on this topic. With this aim, an analysis was carried out of spanish illegitimate birth registrations since 1975, classified by order of the child and age of the mother. According to this data, paperless unions would not be very widespread and their increase would have stopped in 1985

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Many universities and colleges around the world have done extensive surveys of their campus built heritage resources. A detailed description and accounting of a campus's built heritage, landscape heritage and archaeology, are often used for historic preservation planning, and sustaining built culture is also an important aspect of campus master planning of future buildings. Such institutions of higher education have deep historical roots, in Europe it is not uncommon for buildings to be dated prior to the sixteenth century. In countries where European colonies were established, institutions of higher education often date to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Once students have arrived at their chosen campus, however, except for perhaps the first week orientation rituals, do the students actually develop ties to their campus built heritage? This research investigates the knowledge students possess of their respective campus built heritage and the importance of built heritage as a legacy to them. Two institutions are included in this study in an effort of draw comparative assessments. A student questionnaire was administered at Rhodes University in South Africa and St. Mary's College of Maryland in the United States during April 2008. Results indicate students on both campuses place positive intrinsic value on their respective campus built heritage. Just over half (52%) of Rhodes students and about 68% of St. Mary's students were willing to pay some positive amount to protect campus built heritage. Empirical probit model results combining the data from both institutions found that current student knowledge of their respective campus built heritage did not positively relate to the value they place on preservation, even though the visual identity was significant for students and influenced their decision to attend the particular institution. The lack of significance regarding a racial variable coefficient estimate suggests that the use of an institution's visual identity in terms of built heritage may have important marketing implications, particularly in cases where universities or colleges are trying to attract students from more diverse backgrounds. We found no significant relationships between willingness to pay to preserve an institution's built heritage and the demographic variables included in our empirical model. Fundraising data analysis includes positive willingness to pay for conserving built heritage, yet funding for new construction was not significant.

Orientador: Maria José Rodrigues Faria Coracini
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Nesta pesquisa, colocamos em discussão o discurso em formulação e circulação no âmbito universitário, compreendido não apenas como um lócus de observação, mas também de problematização e de possível transformação de sentidos já-dados, naturalizados ou reafirmados. Ancoramo-nos nos estudos discursivos, em sua relação constitutiva com a psicanálise lacaniana e com a desconstrução, viés que implica um gesto constante de reformulação teórico-conceitual. Nosso olhar se dirige ao processo de formação para a pesquisa científica - processo no qual não apenas o conhecimento, mas também os pesquisadores estão em (trans) formação -, por entendermos que, no domínio universitário em que tal processo ocorre, a ciência não é dada como pronta, diferentemente do modo como é veiculada nos discursos de divulgação científica, por exemplo. Em outros termos, tomamos como lugar de observação e problematização não o produto, mas o processo de produção e a transmissão de conhecimentos (a ciência em desenvolvimento). Nesse âmbito, mais do que os resultados, importa a inscrição do pesquisador em formação, sua constituição identitária, inevitavelmente atravessada pela heterogeneidade discursiva que permeia essa outra cena e que presentifica uma memória de dizeres. Importa "o drama subjetivo do cientista", seus conflitos, que, como fios, enodam-se, servindo como condição para esta reflexão. Com base na articulação teórico conceitual empreendida, defendemos a hipótese de que a identidade do pesquisador em formação se constitui em um movimento tenso de aproximação-afastamento com relação a uma imagem ideal e espectral, a figura do cientista, definida e reafirmada a partir de uma matriz de sentidos que pode ser compreendida pela referência à designação ciência moderna, a qual é, também, passível de questionamento, principalmente, por seu caráter idealista. Tomamos como objeto de estudo o dizer de pesquisadores em formação de diferentes disciplinas, inscritos em três grandes áreas: ciências humanas, biológicas e exatas. A análise do corpus incidiu prioritariamente sobre regularidades linguísticodiscursivas (como a recorrência da relação com o outro, de uma imagem do conhecimento científico como forma de se chegar à almejada completude, da expressão de uma revolta resignada frente aos modos de produção desse conhecimento, submetido aos discursos da universidade, da ciência e do capitalismo), presentes em segmentos recortados dos dizeres, os quais obedeceram, em sua maioria, a uma estrutura narrativa linear, com passado e presente, organizados pelo olhar retroativo de um eu-narrador. Trata-se de um modo de interpretar (-se) (n) a produção de conhecimentos, que se ancora em uma "estrutura de ficção". Ao olhar para esses dizeres, não buscamos empreender uma metaciência, que viria lançar luz sobre certo lado obscuro dos domínios teóricos em questão, mas possibilitar a compreensão dos modos de funcionamento do(s) discurso(s) nesses domínios, potencializando o conflito e o desequilíbrio dentro das muralhas de nossa própria torre
Abstract: This research study opens up a discussion of the discourse that is being formulated and disseminated in the academic world, understood both as a place where observation occurs and that involves the problematization and possible change of senses that have already been expressed, naturalized or restated. This research is grounded on discursive studies in its constitutive ties with Lacanian psychoanalysis and with deconstruction, a standpoint that involves a constant gesture of theoretical-conceptual reformulation. In our approach, the study addresses the question of training in scientific research - a process in which not only knowledge, but also the researchers themselves undergo changes. By this we mean that in the university domain where this process occurs, science is not regarded as readymade, unlike the way that it is expressed in discourses in scientific publications, for example. Expressed in another way, it is not the product that is taken as the place of observation and problematization, but the production process and transmission of knowledge (i.e. science in development). What matters more than the results in this area, is the inscription of the researcher in training, and his/her identity constitution (which is inevitably characterized by the discursive heterogeneity which pervades this other scene and which embodies a "memory of sayings"). What is also of importance is that the "subjective drama of the scientist" and his conflicts, which are like threads that become entangled, can provide the right conditions for this kind of reflection. On the basis of this implicit theoretical-conceptual correlation, we support the hypothesis that the identity of the researcher in training represents a tense moment of withdrawal-approximation with regard to the ideal and spectral image of the figure of the scientist. This can be defined and restated on the basis of a range of senses, which can be understood by reference to the term "modern science" which is also open to question, mainly because of its idealistic character. The object of this study is what is said by the researchers in training who are from different subjects but mainly enrolled in three areas: the human, biological and exact sciences. The analysis of the corpus largely focused on linguistic-discursive regularities (such as the adoption of a relationship with another, of an image of scientific knowledge as a means of arriving at a desired completeness, and of the reaction of a backlash which is accepted in light of the modes of production of this knowledge when subjected to the discourses of the university, science and capitalism) that can be found in the extracts of their comments, most of which follow a linear design from past to present and are arranged in terms of a retrospective hindsight by a first person narrator. It is a question of a mode of interpreting (or being interpreted in) the production of knowledge that is grounded in a "framework of fiction". In looking for these remarks, we do not seek to understand a metascience that can throw light on a particularly obscure area of the theoretical domains in question, but to allow an understanding of the way discourse(s) operate(s) within these domains through a potential conflict and an imbalance within the walls of our own tower
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Doutora em Lingüística Aplicada

This is a critical edition of the early fifteenth-century narrative prose The Lyf of Oure Lord and the Virgyn Aary in MS Trinity College Cambridge B.15.42 and MS Bodley 578. The work claims to be a translation of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Xeditationes Vitae Christi and has usually been regarded as such by scholars. However, the NYC provides no more than the narrative structure and less than half of the narrative material for the Lyf. Crucially, the Lyf diverges strongly from the meditational character of the NYC. Other important sources of the Lyf are the Bible, St Bernard, and st Bridget's Revelations. At least eight further sources, both Latin and English, were used. From these works too the Lyf drew mostly narrative, as opposed to didactic or devotional, material. Where sources conflict, the Lyf suppresses one or the other in order to keep the narrative line clear. Another important aspect of the Lyf that emerges from the choice and treatment of the sources is the importance attached to the role of Mary. The number of sources and their skilful deployment point to a fairly scholarly author/compiler, writing for a devout lay or female religious audience. Comparison with other important lives of Christ, notably Nicholas Love's Xyrrour, shows that the Lyf is much less meditational, devotional and didactic. It is perhaps closest to the Speculum Devotorum. The Cambridge MS is written in a WarwickshireWorcestershire- Gloucestershire dialect, whereas the language of the Bodley MS can be localized in Surrey-Berkshire-Hampshire. The Cambridge MS is the more carefully executed copy and therefore serves as base text, complemented by the Bodley MS in cases of lost leaves. There is a full apparatus of Bodley variants, and there are Textual Notes, Explanatory Notes and a Glossary.

Esta pesquisa fundamenta-se na literatura Lingüística, particularmente nas contribuições da Análise do Discurso, Ensino de Língua Portuguesa e no estudo da relação entre fala e escrita como processo integrante de um continuum de textualidade, através dos estudos de Soares, Bakhtin, Marcuschi, Antunes, koch, entre outros. A observação da influencia da oralidade na produção dos alunos universitários do curso de licenciatura em letras revelam que as marcas de oralidade diminuem com o desenvolvimento das atividades acadêmicas, mas não desaparecem em definitivo. A pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a as produções textuais em português, dos alunos do 1e 8 períodos em uma mesma turma do curso de letras da Faculdade de Formação de Professores da Mata Sul na cidade de Palmares-PE Os dados obtidos foram comparados, quanto a marcas de oralidade que teriam influenciado a criação textual. A pesquisa revelou a ocorrência de desenvolvimento redacional individual entre os dois períodos acadêmicos, no que concerne à capacidade de diminuir uso de marcas de oral idade.
This research is based on the Linguistic Literature, especial ly in the contributions of Discourse Analysis, Portuguese teaching and in the study of the relation between the speaking and the writing as a part of process of a continuous of textuali ty, by Soares, Bakhtins, Marcuschis, Antunes, Kochs studies. The observation of the influence of the orality in the university students production, who study Portuguese, there is a disclosure that the impact of the orality reduce with the development of the academic activities, but they do not disappear forever. The aim of this research is to analyze the text productions in Portuguese, from 1st and 8th period in the same class of the Portuguese Course at South Area Teacher Formation College in Palmares city PE. The data collected were verified, about the impact of the oral ity, which would have influenced the text creation.The research revealed the occurrence of individual composition development between the two academic periods, in relation to the ability to reduce use of impact of orality.

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This research is based on the Linguistic Literature, especial ly in the contributions of Discourse Analysis, Portuguese teaching and in the study of the relation between the speaking and the writing as a part of process of a continuous of textuali ty, by Soares , Bakhtin s, Marcuschi s, Antunes , Koch s studies. The observation of the influence of the orality in the university students production, who study Portuguese, there is a disclosure that the impact of the orality reduce with the development of the academic activities, but they do not disappear forever. The aim of this research is to analyze the text productions in Portuguese, from 1st and 8th period in the same class of the Portuguese Course at South Area Teacher Formation College in Palmares city PE. The data collected were verified, about the impact of the oral ity, which would have influenced the text creation.The research revealed the occurrence of individual composition development between the two academic periods, in relation to the ability to reduce use of impact of orality.
Esta pesquisa fundamenta-se na literatura Lingüística, particularmente nas contribuições da Análise do Discurso, Ensino de Língua Portuguesa e no estudo da relação entre fala e escrita como processo integrante de um continuum de textualidade, através dos estudos de Soares, Bakhtin, Marcuschi, Antunes, koch, entre outros. A observação da influencia da oralidade na produção dos alunos universitários do curso de licenciatura em letras revelam que as marcas de oralidade diminuem com o desenvolvimento das atividades acadêmicas, mas não desaparecem em definitivo. A pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a as produções textuais em português, dos alunos do 1ºe 8º períodos em uma mesma turma do curso de letras da Faculdade de Formação de Professores da Mata Sul na cidade de Palmares-PE Os dados obtidos foram comparados, quanto a marcas de oralidade que teriam influenciado a criação textual. A pesquisa revelou a ocorrência de desenvolvimento redacional individual entre os dois períodos acadêmicos, no que concerne à capacidade de diminuir uso de marcas de oral idade.

This thesis explores the changing reputation and legacy of John Powell (1882-1963). Powell was a Virginian-born pianist, composer, and ardent Anglo-Saxon supremacist who created musical propaganda to support racial purity and to define the United States as an exclusively Anglo-Saxon nation. Although he once enjoyed international fame, he has largely disappeared from the public consciousness today. In contrast, the legacies of many of Powell’s musical contemporaries, such as Charles Ives and George Gershwin, have remained vigorous. By examining the ways in which the public has perceived and portrayed Powell both during and after his lifetime, this thesis links Powell’s obscurity to a deliberate, public rejection of his Anglo-Saxon supremacist definition of the United States.

Thesis (Ed.D.)-California State University San Marcos ; University of California, San Diego, 2010.
Abstract: leaves xvi-xvii. Committee members: Carolyn Huie Hofstetter (chair), Richard Bray, Moses Ochanji. Includes bibliographical references (177-187). Also issued online

In developing countries like Ethiopia, education is considered to be a means of development and a stepping stone toward the eradication of poverty. Effective education requires effective teaching, learning and assessment strategies, which, in turn, necessitate the use of effective pedagogical and psychological approaches to meet the demands of a new generation of learners. Effective education becomes possible when learners are properly assessed and empowered via various appropriate assessment techniques. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to investigate how instructors’ assessment practices at a university in Ethiopia influence/enhance student empowerment. In order to achieve this aim, I used a convergent parallel/triangulation mixed-method research design, which allowed me to collect both quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously. Instructors and students from the six colleges of Debre Markos University were the participants of the study. I employed questionnaires and interviews as a data-collection instrument. From a total of 5944 students and 450 instructors, 600 students and 210 instructors were selected, via probability sampling techniques, to complete questionnaires. Six department heads and six instructors were chosen, via non-probability sampling techniques, for the interviews. Before collecting the main data, a pilot study was conducted. The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Moreover, the qualitative data were analysed according to themes and word descriptions. The results of the study indicate significant variations between the perceptions of students and those of instructors, across different colleges, with regard to the practice of assessment. In addition, instructors’ teaching experience, training backgrounds, and levels of education were found to influence their assessment practice to some extent. The qualitative data indicate that students face various problems in the assessment process. Most instructors are very much dependent upon written assessment methods. Moreover, instructors face challenges (such as large class sizes, time shortages, high workloads, poor student-achievement levels, insufficient resources, lack of awareness of different assessment methods, lack of commitment, and negative belief) in the attempts to employ different assessment methods. Finally, the study revealed that empowering students in their study areas is simply untenable if instructors continue to utilise their current assessment practices. Therefore, this study contributes to a large body of literature that acknowledges the contribution of effective assessment in empowerment of students in a more effective and educationally responsive manner. At the end, the study presents important information to decision makers who create policies related to assessment in higher learning institutions.
Curriculum and Instructional Studies
D. Ed. (Didactics and Curriculum Studies)