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Goldberg, Gail Lynn – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2014
This article provides a detailed account of a rubric revision process to address seven common problems to which rubrics are prone: lack of consistency and parallelism; the presence of "orphan" and "widow" words and phrases; redundancy in descriptors; inconsistency in the focus of qualifiers; limited routes to partial credit;…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Engineering, Case Studies, Design
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Owolabi, Henry O.; Onuka, Adams O. U. – African Higher Education Review, 2010
This study obtained basic information from teachers and students on the challenges and prospects of implementing continuous assessment (CA) in the Nigerian school system. Secondary Schools in Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State, located in the central region of Nigeria were sampled for use in the study. It employed survey research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Pilot Projects, Educational Assessment
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Baldwin, Christopher; Bensimon, Estela Mara; Dowd, Alicia C.; Kleiman, Lisa – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Student success is at the heart of both institutional effectiveness and the community college mission, yet measuring such success at community colleges is problematic. This article highlights three efforts to grapple with this problem--a multistate work group of system- and state-level policymakers to create an improved set of student success…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Measurement, Measurement Techniques
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Siping, Gao – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
China started up pilot projects for the evaluation of teaching work at regular higher education institutions (HEIs) in 1994, and, beginning in 2003, the Ministry of Education (MOE) formally set up a system of cyclical teaching evaluation. Among the 592 undergraduate colleges and universities that were listed in the plan for the first round of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation
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Saunders, Lesley – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
This paper is a reflection on practice. It begins by briefly describing an evaluation of an externally-funded education programme in Kosovo (a new country in south-east Europe). The programme was managed by Save the Children in Kosovo and aimed to develop and promote models of inclusive education through three strands of activity. The first of…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Educational Needs, Evaluators, Inclusive Schools