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Pellegrino, James W. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Professor Gordon argues for a significant reorientation in the focus and impact of assessment in education. For the types of assessment activities that he advocates to prosper and positively impact education, serious attention must be paid to two important topics: (1) the conceptual underpinnings of the assessment practices we develop and use to…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Validity
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Eastman, Jacqueline Kilsheimer; Iyer, Rajesh; Eastman, Kevin L. – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors modeled the relationships between students' perceptions of interactive technology in terms of whether it helps them pay more attention and be better prepared in a Consumer Behavior course and their attitude toward and satisfaction with it. The results suggest that students who feel they pay more attention due to the use of Interactive…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Consumer Economics, Business Education, Educational Technology
McIntosh, Jamey – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
Achieving success takes hard work and perseverance, but another crucial ingredient is the ability to learn from failure. Instructors must encourage students to make mistakes within the classroom so they will attempt great things outside it. This is where the freedom of trial and error should be championed, to be able to hone students' skills so…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Construct Validity, Researchers, Technology Education
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Harris, Lois R.; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
Structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews are often used in mixed method studies to generate confirmatory results despite differences in methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation. A review of 19 questionnaire-interview comparison studies found that consensus and consistency statistics were generally weak between…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Questionnaires, Interviews, Data Collection
Bailey, Jennifer; Little, Chelsea; Rigney, Rex; Thaler, Anna; Weiderman, Ken; Yorkovich, Ben – Online Submission, 2010
This handbook is designed as a quick reference for first-year teachers who find themselves in an assessment driven environment with little experience to help make sense of the language, underlying philosophy, or organizational structure of the assessment system. The handbook begins with advice on developing and evaluating effective learning…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Portfolio Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment
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Clark, Richard E. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1994
Considers the question of whether instructional methods are replaceable or interchangeable. Topics discussed include the influence of external events on learning and cognitive processes, media variables, linking instructional design to research on learning from instruction, construct validity, and an example of adequate instructional design and…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Educational Media, Instructional Design, Learning Processes