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Keshavarz, Hamid; Norouzi, Yaghoub – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
Owing to the extreme importance of evaluating the credibility of existing scientific websites, the present study sets out to measure a proposed model concerning the views and preferences of university students in Iran, when evaluating information. Data were collected by administrating a highly validated questionnaire among 487 students in ten top…
Descriptors: Credibility, Evaluation Methods, Scientific and Technical Information, Web Sites
Mahalingam, Sheila; Abdollah, Faizal Mohd; Sahib, Shahrin – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
M-Learning has a potential to improve efficiency in the education sector and has a tendency to grow advance and transform the learning environment in the future. Yet there are challenges in many areas faced when introducing and implementing m-learning. The learner centered attribute in mobile learning implies deployment in untrustworthy learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Computer Security
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Hayes, Matthew W.; Prus, Joseph – College Student Journal, 2014
The present study examined whether students used qualitative information, quantitative information, or both when making course selection decisions. Participants reviewed information on four hypothetical courses in an advising context before indicating their likelihood to enroll in those courses and ranking them according to preference. Modeled…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Selection (Students), Evaluation Methods
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Chandler-Olcott, Kelly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
This article argues that editing in the era of digital literacies is a complex, collaborative endeavor that requires a sophisticated awareness of audience and purpose and a knowledge of multiple conventions for conveying meaning and ensuring accuracy. It compares group editing of an article about the New York Yankees baseball team on Wikipedia,…
Descriptors: Editing, Grade 7, Literacy, Reading Instruction
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Kokotsaki, Dimitra – Psychology of Music, 2007
The aim of this study was to develop a theoretical model of the attainment of high quality in musical ensemble performance as perceived by the pianist and to identify the factors affecting this process. The research has followed an inductive interpretative approach, applying qualitative methods. The analytic material was collected through the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Music Education, Musicians, Interviews
Hipps, Jerome A. – 1993
New methods are needed to judge the quality of alternative student assessment, methods which complement the philosophy underlying authentic assessments. This paper examines assumptions underlying validity, reliability, and objectivity, and why they are not matched to authentic assessment, concentrating on the constructivist paradigm of E. Guba and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Constructivism (Learning), Credibility, Educational Assessment