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Jasmine A. Mena; Jennie R. Stevenson – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Introduction: Instructors assign grades to communicate to students how well they are learning the course content. However, students and instructors are often displeased with the process and outcome of grading. Statement of the Problem: We contend that conventional grading inadvertently detracts from student learning and simultaneously replicates…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Psychological Studies
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Olla, Rita; Houmanfar, Ramona A.; Esquierdo-Leal, Jovonnie L.; Crosswell, Laura H. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2023
Modern societies need higher education systems that are strongly grounded on scientific knowledge and evidence-based teaching tools. This laboratory-based study extended Chase and Houmanfar (2009), examining the effects of basic and elaborate feedback on participants' performance measured with two sets of tests administered after a college-level…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, College Students
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Ato Kwamina Arhin – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: This article aimed at digging deep into distractors used for mathematics multiple-choice items. The quality of distractors may be more important than their number and the stem in a multiple-choice question. Little attention is given to this aspect of item writing especially, mathematics multiple-choice questions. This article…
Descriptors: Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Mathematics Tests
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Rajab Esfandiari; Mohammad Hossein Arefian – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Computer-assisted language assessment literacy (LAL) has gained momentum in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching since computer-based education became particularly common in language education. As EFL teachers play a critical role in administering computer-assisted language assessments, Iranian EFL teachers need to learn, relearn, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Evans, Carla M. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
Large-scale performance assessment programs are a longstanding reform tool. However, standard setting can be a challenge for assessment programs that use primarily non-standardized assessments. The purpose of this paper is to extend this field of research by explaining the standard setting methodology applied to one more recent instantiation of a…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, State Programs
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Giraldo, Frank; Yan, Xun – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
In this article, we report the results of a study through which we collected English language teachers' needs and wants to design an online language assessment course. Through a mixed-methods approach, we asked 20 teachers from four Latin American countries what they wanted to learn in the course. The teachers wanted a course in which they could…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests