Improving Tes scores- What we can do

Burns, J. David. “Will I do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students´ expectations”. Journal of the scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8.3 (2008): 1-19. Although the article contains a lot of important and useful information for teachers, Burns is not well qualified to argue and discuss the topic since he is in the marketing business and he could not prove that students expectations are connected to test scores.
This article is very useful for teachers that want to increase students’ performance but finally the author did not find any relation between previous expectations and final results. The results did not work because the author just prove it in only one class, maybe his thesis could come up if Burns makes a continuous research instead of having results after just one try. Even though, the author did not obtain concrete results and a certain prove that previous expectations can help students performance, the article opens a very important topic to discussion, that can be how about using previous expectations in teachers´ classes combined with interactive classes as a new methodology.

"Online sources"

1. Journals
a. “Association of American Colleges and Universities”
http://www.aacu.org/resources/generaleducation/index.cfm
The site offers a huge variety of different topics related with education. It is very easy to explore and you can find a lot of important information about education. The site also provides other links to very interesting education sources in order to give more information and have a complete research of your topic of interest.

b. “Educational Research and Reviews”
http://www.academicjournals.org/err/index.htm
The site provides the different volumes from the academic journal, “Educational research and reviews”. It is well organized in order that you can explore the site by selecting an especial volume or respecting the specific date.

c. “Education review a journal of book reviews”
http://edrev.asu.edu/
The Education review provides a great review of a big variety of book research and many essay reviews of famous authors in the education field. It is well organized and it contains a lot of different quotations that can help you to have a more complete investigation.


d. “we LEAD In Learning” An E-Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership http://www.leadingtoday.org/weleadinlearning/
It provides a lot of articles of different authors and in each article it also provides some kind of information about the author’s life and other works.


e. “DOAJ”
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=education
The site contains a lot of information, easy access and different topics related with education in different languages!!!

2. Data bases
a. “Education and Literacy”
http://www.uis.unesco.org/pagesen/ed.htm
It is very interesting you can investigate many different topics related with education all over the world.


b. “Wikipedia”
http://www.wikipedia.org/
At first I did not know that it was a data base, but after I understand the concept I realized that I have used it in several times. It provides a lot of information and in many different languages.

c. “Internacional Education research Database”
http://research.ibo.org/pls/apex/f?p=107:1:3215830032429809
It contributes to the investigation of education, respecting international education and its methods.