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Alex Buckley – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Despite a large amount of critical research literature, traditional examinations continue to be widely used in higher education. This article reviews recent literature in order to assess the role played by the approaches adopted by researchers in the gap between research on exams, and the way exams are used. Viviane Robinson's 'problem-based…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Testing, Higher Education, Testing Problems
Julia Carnine; Cristina Pérez Calleja – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
In a unique learning context, language-positive environments outside the classroom, not enclosed instruction on U.S. campuses, education abroad foreign language instructors develop distinct teaching practices. Education abroad researchers have accounted for informal learning opportunities, yet few have attended to onsite language instruction. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction, Educational Innovation
Shraim, Khitam – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019
Online examinations, commonly known as electronic examinations (e-exams), are becoming increasingly implemented in higher education institutions in Palestine. However, learners' perspectives on these exams remain unexplored. This study therefore examines learners' perceptions of the online examination practices at Palestine Technical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Allehaiby, Wid Hasen; Al-Bahlani, Sara – Arab World English Journal, 2021
One of the main challenges higher educational institutions encounter amid the recent COVID-19 crisis is transferring assessment approaches from the traditional face-to-face form to the online Emergency Remote Teaching approach. A set of language assessment principles, practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, and washback, which can be…
Descriptors: Barriers, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Asadnia, Fatemeh – Language Awareness, 2023
Some strands of research on teacher cognition have remained predominantly cognitive and overlooked the socially-mediated nature of teachers' thoughts. One such strand is the research on teachers' pedagogical knowledge base, defined as the thought units/categories underlying teachers' instructional performance. To address this gap, the present…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Martel, Jason – Language Education & Assessment, 2019
Washback, that is, the effect of tests on teaching and learning, has captured the interest of scholars in applied linguistics for almost 30 years. However, most research has been conducted on large-scale tests, rather than classroom-based language assessments like ACTFL's Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA). The present study explored washback…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bengtsson, Lars – Education Sciences, 2019
This work describes a systematic review of the research on take-home exams in tertiary education. It was found that there is some disagreement in the community about the virtues of take-home exams but also a lot of agreement. It is concluded that take-home exams may be the preferred choice of assessment method on the higher taxonomy levels because…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Cheating, Thinking Skills, Supervision
Scott, Margaret; Unsworth, John – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
While traditionally the viva voce examination had a central role in student assessment it fell out of favour as higher education expanded. This paper describes the development of a digital video viva examination to promote a more authentic and lower stakes method of assessment for students in their final under-graduate module. The paper presents a…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Video Technology, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Olasehinde, Martha O. – Higher Education Studies, 2015
This paper posits that the conduct of examinations in any educational institution can make or mar the institution, Kwara State Polytechnic inclusive. This is because examinations constitute the hub of any institution. First, the place of polytechnic education in the growth and development of the country is examined. Next, is a consideration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Testing Programs, Testing
Saglam, Asli Lidice Gokturk – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This article reports a mixed-method study that examined the washback effect from a locally-produced, theme-based, high-stakes English language proficiency test in tertiary education in a Turkish EAP context. The aim was to explore the extent to which washback on teaching was induced by an integrated theme-based English proficiency test designed to…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Khalid, Adeel – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Academic misconduct by students in higher education is a fact and is a challenge to the integrity of higher education and its reputation. Furthermore such misconduct is counterproductive to the ethics component of higher education. The purpose of this research is to explore, investigate and compile the anecdotal accounts of academic misconduct…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cheating
Rapke, Tina – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
This article describes a study, from a Canadian technical institute's upgrading mathematics course, where students played a role in developing the final closed-book exam that they sat. The study involved a process where students developed practice exams and solutions keys, students sat each other's practice exams, students evaluated classmates'…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Tests, Teacher Student Relationship
Unamma, Anthony Odera – Open Praxis, 2013
This research work was aimed at determining the degree of community members' interference in the conduct of university distance learning examination in South Eastern Nigeria. It was also aimed at finding out the factors responsible for the community members' interference, the ways by which interference is effected, the consequences and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Community Involvement, Testing Problems
Ghilay, Yaron; Ghilay, Ruth – Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The study examined advantages and disadvantages of computerised assessment compared to traditional evaluation. It was based on two samples of college students (n=54) being examined in computerised tests instead of paper-based exams. Students were asked to answer a questionnaire focused on test effectiveness, experience, flexibility and integrity.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Osuji, U. S. A. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The rapid development of the information and communication technologies has brought about the modernization of teaching and learning across the globe. Today, teaching and learning are made easy through the use of computer technologies and/or the electronic and other multi-media elements. It is widely accepted that electronic learning naturally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Electronic Equipment, Computer Assisted Testing