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Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2021

Students enroll in educational institutions, especially in ESL programs, to add as many values as... more Students enroll in educational institutions, especially in ESL programs, to add as many values as possible their stay in an institution provides them.Accordingly, educational programs should meet these expectations, and they are also accountable for ensuring the different aspects of their programs are continuously improving based on program evaluation data.Unfortunately, most educational institutions are limited to using conventional courses achievement evaluation instruments, such as quizzes, tests, and final exams. Even though these measurement tools are necessary and vital, they are insufficient to assess students' holistic growth because of students' multifaceted involvement in an international higher educational institution.Therefore, this article using a possible ESL program in U.S.as an example proposes the need to integrate direct, indirect, and value-added assessments in educational programs when international students are assessed.

This paper aims to explore the practice of continuous assessment at Unity University College and ... more This paper aims to explore the practice of continuous assessment at Unity University College and Addis Ababa University. It has also investigated constraints instructors say they have been facing in implementing continuous assessment. Students ’ attitudes about the practice of this assessment mode towards their course achievements were explored. Course materials, continuous assessment modalities, randomly selected final examination papers, interviews and questionnaires were used as sources of data collection instruments. The purpose and focus of the assessment, the construct tested, the formats employed, critical thinking and creativity encouraged, feedback offered and received, record keeping of the assessment data and assessment of progress development, classroom management, stakeholders ’ involvement and the wash back effect of the practice of the assessment were identified to be the grand factors that cast a cloud over the practice of continuous assessment in the context under f...

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This paper is aimed at describing and exploring staff development issues in Ethiopian higher educ... more This paper is aimed at describing and exploring staff development issues in Ethiopian higher education. The principal research question of the study reads as how do the academic staff, view the need of short term continuous professional development trainings and how they prefer such trainings to be organized in Ethiopian higher education? To respond to this question, open and close ended questionnaires, interviews, documents and literature review were used as data collection instruments. The data was analyzed using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The findings of the study, has shown that academic staff have mixed opinions about the need for short term continuous professional development trainings. However, the study identified the perceived needs of academic staff that might be considered while organizing staff development programs that focus on teaching and research. It also revealed what competencies, academic staff need to develop continuously in their teaching and resea...

Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods, 2013

AbstractAn experiment was conducted to explore the effect of viewing test items at different time... more AbstractAn experiment was conducted to explore the effect of viewing test items at different times in a listening comprehension test. In this experiment three groups viewed listening comprehension test items at three different times. The first group viewed these items before listening to the text for two times ("before reading group") while the second one viewed them after listening to two times ("after reading group"). The third group, on the other hand, viewed the questions between two listening ("sandwich group").First, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was used to divide the testees in to three groups with comparable listening abilities. The data obtained from this standardized test was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result then showed that the three groups were comparable in their listening abilities. After this was done, a listening test for first year English for Academic Purpose students prepared by ex...

The Ethiopian Journal of Education, 2014

This article argues for the need to consider servant leadership style in Ethiopian higher educati... more This article argues for the need to consider servant leadership style in Ethiopian higher education institutions. In comparative perspectives, it describes how the current higher education leadership style differs from the servant leadership style as the best leadership style for Ethiopian higher education institutions. In the description, selected leadership characteristics are used as the basis for the comparison between the present leadership style and what it should be. Observation and interviews with selected lecturers and leaders of Ethiopian higher education together with a review of related literature are used as data sources.

BACKGROUNDHuman capital flight refers to movement of educated people from one country to another ... more BACKGROUNDHuman capital flight refers to movement of educated people from one country to another or within the country. Different terms such as brain drain, brain hemorrhage and brain circulation are used by different writers to refer to the movement of educated personnel from one country to another (Teferra, 2000).The issue of human capital flight which has become extensive as of the last 3 decade (Docquier and Mahfouz, 2000) is neither a new phenomenon nor impacted only developing countries. Teferra (2000) and Shinn (2002) noted the flow of British scholars to the USA in 1960s to trace the time in which brain drain was first conceptualized. Tefera (2000) added that between 1994 and 1965 about 97,000 high skill scholars immigrated to the USA, mainly from Great Britain, Germany, and Canada. Since the mid 1960s and mainly 1970s the geographic structure of the brain drain process noticeably changed, the developing countries becoming nutrient medium.From developing countries over 500,0...

Feedback is one of the most important activities in any English as a Second Language (ESL) writin... more Feedback is one of the most important activities in any English as a Second Language (ESL) writing class, and many teachers and students believe that it is key for writing development. The aim of this paper is to analyze research and come to an understanding of the effectiveness of corrective feedback in enhancing the quality of ESL students’ writing. To this end, the following paper presents a critical review of published empirical studies in the area. The review illustrates that feedback in ESL writing has both advantages and disadvantages, with mixed empirical findings suggesting controversy about its effectiveness. The review concludes by highlighting the need for continuing research in the area.