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The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model is a theoretical framework developed by Jeffrey D. Fisher and William A. Fisher in 1992. [1] Initially designed to understand and promote HIV -preventive behaviors, the IMB model has since been applied to various health-related behaviors and interventions.
Standards-based education reform in the United States began with the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983. [19] In 1989, an education summit involving all fifty state governors and President George H. W. Bush resulted in the adoption of national education goals for the year 2000; the goals included content standards. [19]
A standards-based test is an assessment based on the outcome-based education or performance-based education philosophy. [11] Assessment is a key part of the standards reform movement. The first part is to set new, higher standards to be expected of every student. Then the curriculum must be aligned to the new standards.
Two important features characterized the education reforms of this movement. First, as in other fields of public service provision, a focus on outcomes and results became crucial. This type of performance evaluation required the definition of both particular standards and broader objectives in the pursuit of educational goals.
Identity-based motivation theory (IBM) is a social psychological theory of human motivation and goal pursuit, which explains when and in which situations people’s identities or self-concepts will motivate and to take action towards their goals.
Learning standards can also take the form of learning objectives and content-specific standards and controlled vocabulary, [4] as well as metadata about content. [5] There are technical standards for encoding these standards that deal with K-12 learning environments, [6] which are separate from those in higher education [7] and private business ...
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Academic standards are the benchmarks of quality and excellence in education such as the rigour of curricula and the difficulty of examinations. [1] The creation of universal academic standards requires agreement on rubrics, criteria or other systems of coding academic achievement. [ 2 ]