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Download full textBurge, Bethan; Benson, Louise – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
Since its introduction in 2017, NFER has been contracted by Ofqual to develop, deliver and analyse the results of the National Reference Test (NRT) in English and maths. The NRT is administered annually and shows if student performance in English and maths at GCSE level has changed from year to year. The NRT results are based on analysis of data…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Test Results, English, Mathematics Tests
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Direct linkEvers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
O'Keeffe, Cormac – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2017
International Large Scale Assessments have been producing data about educational attainment for over 60 years. More recently however, these assessments as tests have become digitally and computationally complex and increasingly rely on the calculative work performed by algorithms. In this article I first consider the coordination of relations…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2017
Person-fit assessment (PFA) is concerned with uncovering atypical test performance as reflected in the pattern of scores on individual items on a test. Existing person-fit statistics (PFSs) include both parametric and nonparametric statistics. Comparison of PFSs has been a popular research topic in PFA, but almost all comparisons have employed…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Testing, Test Items, Scores
Siew, Cynthia S. Q. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Network science is an emerging area of complexity science that uses mathematical techniques to study complex systems and could represent a new way of quantifying and investigating the internal structure of domain-specific knowledge as approximated by students' concept maps. Students enrolled in introductory psychology constructed concept maps to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Psychology, Undergraduate Students, Network Analysis
Zhao, Shixi; Chen, Wei-Ju; Dhar, Shweta U.; Eble, Tanya N.; Kwok, Oi-Man; Chen, Lei-Shih – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
This study examined the experiences of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) genetic testing among parents of children with ASD. A nationwide sample of 552 parents of children with ASD completed an online survey. Nearly one-quarter (22.5%) of the parents reported that their affected children had undergone ASD genetic testing. The testing utilization was…
Descriptors: Genetics, Parent Attitudes, Children, Autism
Phelps, Richard P. – Online Submission, 2019
If it is not possible for one to critique other research and succeed--or even remain securely employed--in a research profession, how is the profession ever to rid itself of flawed, biased, or fraudulent research? Answer: it will not. Any community that disallows accusations of bad behavior condones bad behavior. Any community that disallows…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Deception, Ethics, Information Dissemination
Mbalamula, Yazidu Saidi – Pedagogical Research, 2018
The study analyzes students' performance scores in formative assessments depicting the individual and group settings. A case study design was adopted using quantitative approach to extract data of 198 undergraduate students. Data were analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics--means and frequencies; spearman correlations, multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Grey House Publishing, 2023
Formerly "Educators Resource Directory," "Educators Resource Guide" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Guide" includes…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Associations, Publications
Gabbay, Hagit; Cohen, Anat – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
In MOOCs for programming, Automated Testing and Feedback (ATF) systems are frequently integrated, providing learners with immediate feedback on code assignments. The analysis of the large amounts of trace data collected by these systems may provide insights into learners' patterns of utilizing the automated feedback, which is crucial for the…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
Exploring Core Ideas of Procedural Understanding in Scientific Inquiry Using Educational Data Mining
Arnold, Julia C.; Mühling, Andreas; Kremer, Kerstin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: Scientific thinking is an essential learning goal of science education and it can be fostered by inquiry learning. One important prerequisite for scientific thinking is procedural understanding. Procedural understanding is the knowledge about specific steps in scientific inquiry (e.g. formulating hypotheses, measuring dependent and…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Education
Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier; Vadillo, Miguel A.; Barberia, Itxaso – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: We have previously presented two educational interventions aimed to diminish causal illusions and promote critical thinking. In both cases, these interventions reduced causal illusions developed in response to active contingency learning tasks, in which participants were able to decide whether to introduce the potential cause in each…
Descriptors: Sampling, Inferences, Psychology, Undergraduate Students
Bearman, Margaret; Nieminen, Juuso Henrik; Ajjawi, Rola – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
E-assessment typically seeks to improve assessment designs through the use of innovative digital tools. However, the intersections between digital technologies and assessment can be seen as increasingly complex, particularly as the sociotechnical perspectives suggest assessment must be relevant to a digitally-mediated society. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction, Student Evaluation
Estrada-Araoz, Edwin Gustavo; Sayed, Biju Theruvil; Niyazova, Gulnorakhon Gulyamovna; Lami, Desta – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This research compared the impacts of computerized formative assessment (CFA) and computerized dynamic assessment (CDA) on students' motivation, reading self-concept, autonomy, and self-regulation. Out of a total of 123 Bangladeshi pupils, 87 participants were carefully chosen as the study's sample subject based on the Preliminary English Test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Chan, Kinnie Kin Yee; Bond, Trevor; Yan, Zi – Language Testing, 2023
We investigated the relationship between the scores assigned by an Automated Essay Scoring (AES) system, the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA), and grades allocated by trained, professional human raters to English essay writing by instigating two procedures novel to written-language assessment: the logistic transformation of AES raw scores into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Essays, Scoring, Scores
