How Classroom Assessments Improve Learning Thomas R. Guskey Teachers who develop useful assessments‚ provide corrective instruction‚ and give students second chances to demonstrate success can improve their instruction and help students learn. Large-scale assessments‚ like all assessments‚ are designed for a specific purpose. Those used in most states today are designed to rank-order schools and students for the purposes of accountability—and some do so fairly well. But assessments designed for
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Running head: PIAGET & KOHLBERG RESEARCH ON THE COGNITIVE & MORAL DEVELOPMENT THEORIES OF JEAN PIAGET & LAWRENCE KOHLBERG DONNA O. O ’CONNOR INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE CARIBBEAN ABSTRACT The intention of this paper is to provide an overview of the psychological theories of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. While Piaget ’s perspective was psychological‚ Kholberg ’s viewpoint was psychological with emphasis placed on moral development and both theories will be compared and contrasted in
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Life and work of Dr. Maria Montessori Dr. Montessori is known as the founder of Montessori Method‚ who played an important role in the development of early childhood education. She was born in middle class family on 31st August 1870 and was the only child of her parents. Her father‚ Alessandro Montessori was a conservative military man. But her mother‚ Renidle Montessori was a liberal lady. Although in those days whole Europe was very conservative but Montessori got medical and scientific education
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or video (Bazelon). Maria Montessori‚ one of Italy’s first female physicians‚ began with a premise that kids can teach themselves if they are working within a strong framework (Bazelon). While educators sought ways to confine children in place while data was pumped into their minds‚ Maria Montessori’s revolution set the child free. Born in 1870‚ Maria Montessori assailed the male-dominated educational system‚ and became a physician (Povell). Perhaps‚ the challenges Montessori endured formed the
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Piaget ’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget was born on August9‚ 1896‚ in the French speaking part of Switzerland. At an early age he developed an interest in biology‚ and by the time he had graduated from high school he had already published a number of papers. After marrying in 1923‚ he had three children‚ whom he studied from infancy. Piaget is best known for organizing cognitive development into a series of stages- the levels of development corresponding too infancy‚ childhood
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Cognitive development is the development of thought processes‚ including remembering‚ problem solving‚ and decision-making‚ from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Historically‚ the cognitive development of children has been studied in a variety of ways. The oldest is through intelligence tests. An example of this is the Stanford Binet Intelligence Quotient test. IQ scoring is based on the concept of "mental age‚" according to which the scores of a child of average intelligence match
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study is bilingualism‚ which deals with those individuals and communities that speak two (or more) languages. Neurolinguistics focuses on cerebral processes during speech‚ as well as on the effects of different brain injuries and the relationship between linguistic competencies. Psycholinguistics is a relatively young branch of linguistics‚ it appeared somewhere at the beginning of the 1950’s. Naturally‚ psycholinguistic type of researches had been carried out before as well‚ both by scientists and
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Jean Piaget was very interested in how children think and at what point in their development their thinking shifts. Piaget focused his theories around the cognitive development of people beginning in the early stages of their development. His observations and consequent stages of development first began with the observations of his own children. His theory concluded that each child progresses through four stages in their mental development. In the process of growing and progressing through the various
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Hambrick Psychology 101 Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget is a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. Piaget believed that children play an active role in the growth of intelligence. He regarded children as philosophers who perceive the world as he or she experiences it (ICELS). Therefore in Piaget’s most prominent work‚ his theory on the four stages of cognitive development‚ much of his inspiration came from observations
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Three Theories of Cognitive Development The Swiss psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is well-known for his work towards the cognitive sciences. Arguably one of his most important contributions involves his theory of cognitive development. In this theory‚ thinking progresses through four distinct stages between infancy and adulthood. Similar in scope to Piaget’s theory is Information Processing‚ in which human thinking is based on both mental hardware and mental software (Kail
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