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Teacher education program has an important role in providing student teachers with current practices related to assessment theoretically and practically. The current study aimed to investigate Saudi female student teachers' knowledge and attitudes towards using alternative assessment methods atPrincess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU). The participants were 105 senior student teachers majoring in primary education at the college of education in Saudi Arabia.To examine the research questions, the participants responded to items that measure their attitudes towards using assessment methods,and they also responded to items that test their knowledge about the methods that define alternative assessment. The researchers utilized descriptive analysis methods using means and standard deviation. Analysis of the relationship between student teachers' attitudes and knowledge were also conducted. The results showed that student teachers have negative attitudes towards using alternative assessment methods and they were unsure about the methods that define alterative assessment. Recommendations were provided for teacher preparation programs educators.

This study aims at investigating the effect of using reflective journals on the writing achievement and writing attitudes of eighth grade EFL students in Jordan.The sample of the study consisted of two eighth grade student sections at the Educational Creativity Schools in Amman. One of the two sections was purposely assigned as the control group (18 students) and the second section was assigned as the experimental group (18 students).The research instruments used to achieve the purposes of this study were: A writing attitude questionnaire and a writing achievement test with the scoring scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as means and standard deviations, in addition to the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The main results of the study indicated that the mean scores of the experimental group was significantly higher than the mean scores of the control group in the writing achievement and writing attitudes after eight weeks of treatment. This means that the use of reflective journals had significantly greater positive effect on the eighth -grade EFL studentsʼ' writing achievement and writing attitudes than the effect of using the traditional methods.

This study aimed at investigating the effects of a relationship between the web quest and the level of susceptibility to self-learning on the achievement and portfolio skills accomplishment among student in instructional technology , has been presented strategic by two levels , first (open web quest) and (specific web quest) for student with (high level) and (low level) for the scalability of self-learning, the simple of the study consisted of (40) 3 rd students in instruction technology department al Azhar university. They were randomly assigned into an (4) experimental groups according the sequence of (open web quest) and (specific web quest) and scalability of self-learning (high level) and (low level) Keywords;(instructional technology, e-learning-web quest-internet based instructional-web2 Generation-open web quest-specific web quest-self learning-portfolio) .