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Article: Curriculum-based measurement in the content areas: vocabulary matching as an indicator of progress in social studies learning.
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- Journal of Learning Disabilities
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- July 1, 2005
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One of the most important yet most difficult components of education is the measurement of change. By measuring change in performance, teachers can reliably evaluate student learning and the effects of instructional interventions on that learning. Yet despite its importance, change measurement is rarely the focus of educational assessment, where the measurement of performance at a single point in time is the dominant approach. In few other areas of education is this emphasis more prevalent than in the field of learning disabilities (LD), where the identification of students for services is often based on the discrepancy between two single scores--an intelligence score and ...
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Article: Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von
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...Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von ( b. Mattenzell, Bavaria ... 5 March 1856) Chemistry, mineralogy . Fuchs, the son of poor peasants, proved such ... Munich. Under the influence of Jacquin, Fuchs became interested in chemistry and mineralogy ...
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