Exploring educational standard alignment: In search of 'relevance'

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-65

  Reitsma, René ^a   Dalton, Michael ^b   Marshall, Byron ^a   Cyr, Martha ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Context specific measurement; Curriculum standard alignment; Digital library; Inter rater reliability; Reification; Relevance; Social science theory

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-SPECIFIC MEASUREMENT; CURRICULUM-STANDARD ALIGNMENT; DIGITAL LIBRARY; INTER-RATER RELIABILITY; REIFICATION; RELEVANCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORY;

ABSTRACTING; ALIGNMENT; CURRICULA; LIBRARIES; PROGRAMMING THEORY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STANDARDS; TEACHING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 57649171091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1378889.1378901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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