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Direct linkQian Liu; Navé Wald; Chandima Daskon; Tony Harland – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
This qualitative study looks at multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in examinations and their effectiveness in testing higher-order cognition. While there are claims that MCQs can do this, we consider many assertions problematic because of the difficulty in interpreting what higher-order cognition consists of and whether or not assessment tasks…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Critical Thinking, College Faculty, Student Evaluation
Nell-Tuor, Nadine – International Journal of Listening, 2022
In Switzerland, national educational goals were implemented in 2011. They cover various fields, including listening. The goals specify the competencies Swiss students should have at certain points in their school career. The pupils' achievement of these goals is tested regularly. This review of basic competencies takes place on tablet. In order to…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Handheld Devices, Elementary School Students, Listening Comprehension Tests
Eun, Barohny; Knotek, Steven E. – Research in Education, 2022
A Vygotskian approach to assessment is proposed by invoking the distinction between the development of lower and higher psychological functions. Higher psychological functions are specifically human and develop with the use of cultural tools via mediation. Accordingly, a distinction is made between tests that are based on association, which have…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Teaching Methods
