Although we included this and subtests from the BDAE (including the Cookie Theft description) as assessments of discourse level processing, the focus of our analysis in this study was on deficits at the single word processing level, as these are the building blocks of language and involve tasks that are sensitive to residual abilities even in severe cases (Henseler et al., 2014).
That he even used this line was either an act of clumsiness or a cynical assessment of political discourse, since it has already been widely discredited by fact-checkers.
Educational implications are drawn focusing on the value of communication in inquiry, the use of ideas-in-progress, the assessment of student knowledge through discourse, and the ways educational discourse processes are situated in cultural practices.
Analysis of discourse and assessment choices suggests that representational pairing can drive development of discriminating personal schemata (knowledge structures) that more closely conform to canonical norms of the scientific community (Podolefsky and Finkelstein, 2007b, 2008).
In order to test this theory, 'child codes' and 'parent codes' relating to parents' and young people's views on CSPs, CSPs and assessment of risk, and transmission of discourses on CSPs were searched, summarised and compared.
The results from the assessment of three sample classroom discourses using EQUIP and TIR by the coders mostly agreed with the CDAT coding results.
To this end, correlations were calculated to examine the relationship between standardized and discourse-based assessments of linguistic features and discourse scores.
Assessment was achieved through application of the Narrative Assessment Profile tool [Bliss, L. S., McCabe, A., & Miranda A. E. (1998). Narrative assessment profile: Discourse analysis for school-age children. Journal of Communication Disorders, 31, 347 362.] and analysis of seven major story elements.
In particular, we draw on Gee's concept of Discourse models to identify the implicit theories students use to make sense of their learning and assessment experiences.
Then stir it all up with a lot of discourse, and of discourse about discourse.
