Lisa F. Smith

TL;DR: A review of over 100 years of research on grading considers five types of studies: early studies of the reliability of grades, quantitative studies of composition of K-12 report card grades, survey and interview studies of teachers' perceptions of grade, studies of standards-based grading, and grading in higher education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship that age, gender, and group size have on viewing times of art museum visitors and found that viewing time was not related to gender or age, but was strongly related to group size with larger groups spending more time.

TL;DR: Analysis of viewers' responses to slide-projected and computer-generated images of nine paintings by renowned artists to those obtained from individuals experiencing the originals in the galleries of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed significant differences in the judged hedonic value of the originals as contrasted with the two types of reproduction.

TL;DR: This paper examined reading self-efficacy, reading enjoyment, and reading achievement of 8 and 12 year old children using data from New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project, a light sampling, low stakes performance based national school assessment program, and found that girls outperformed boys in reading achievement and showed higher levels of reading enjoyment.

TL;DR: Aesthetic fluency is the knowledge that a person has about art and aspects of life closely related to art as discussed by the authors, i.e., understanding what chiaroscuro means and being able to spot its use in a painting.