Using gamification in assessments makes learning more engaging and encourages students to participate actively in the classroom. This study investigates the effect of gamification-based formative assessment on academic achievement among primary school students in the context of mathematics learning. Randomized pretest-posttest control group design…

The impact of many interventions weakens during the scaling up process and low fidelity of implementation (i.e. delivering an intervention but not as it was intended) may explain why. In this paper we introduce, discuss, and exemplify the use of a framework for developing fidelity tools that aim to measure and promote fidelity of implementation.…

In the field of multimedia learning, instructional videos have become a widely used tool to facilitate knowledge acquisition across various educational contexts. However, designing these videos effectively is critical to enhancing learning outcomes and minimizing cognitive overload. To address this challenge, researchers have developed design…

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) must be present early in development, but may not fully manifest until social demands exceed capacities. In the absence of adequate biological or brain imaging markers to detect and diagnose autism, diagnosis relies on clinical judgment based on observation of symptoms. Many tools have been developed in…

Purpose: Phonological awareness (PA) is a foundational skill for literacy development and may be impacted in children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP ± L), as studies have reported associations between atypical speech sound production in this population and reduced PA skills. This study examined (a) the relationship between…

The language of anatomy, with its roots in Ancient Greek and Roman languages, is complex and unfamiliar to many. Its complexity creates a significant barrier to public knowledge and understanding of anatomy--many members of the public find themselves asking "what does it mean?", and this can manifest as poor health literacy and outcomes.…

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing discussions around social inequality have significantly reshaped traditional college admission practices. This study explores the potential of using statewide assessments that are accessible to all students and aligned with curriculum standards as an alternative to college admission tests. Hierarchical…

In many circumstances in everyday life, individuals offload information to external stores (e.g., shopping lists) to compensate for limitations in internal memory. When saving information externally, individuals tend to refrain from actively encoding an additional internal copy of the information, leading to a weakening of its internal trace. This…

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of mind and intelligence games on critical thinking tendencies and decision-making skills of third grade primary school students. In this study, pretest-posttest control group model, one of the quasi-experimental designs within the scope of quantitative research methods, was used. The research was…

Background: Analyzing student short-answer written justifications to conceptually challenging questions has proven helpful to understand student thinking and improve conceptual understanding. However, qualitative analyses are limited by the burden of analyzing large amounts of text. Purpose: We apply dense and sparse Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Previous research has shown that phonological awareness is one of the most important prerequisites for early reading. Monitoring its development requires reliable, easy-to-use instruments especially in the last years of kindergarten. The present study aims to explore the potential for assessing phonological awareness and some of its subskills…

This study investigates the integration of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) and PBL (Project-based Learning) into pedagogical practice and investigates their impact on students' creative thinking. This research examines how a single case school integrates diverse educational objectives and technologies within a…

Assessments are critical indicators of what is valued within education systems and can drive pedagogical practices at scale. However, existing large-scale assessments often fail to leverage students' cultural and linguistic assets as part of the disciplinary meaning-making process. This paper explores the intersection of culturally relevant,…

Recent studies have found correlations between sentence-level tests and reading comprehension. However, the task demands of sentence-level tests are not well understood. The present study investigated syntactic knowledge as a construct by examining the convergent and discriminant validity of two sentence-level tasks, sentence comprehension and…

Equating the scores from different forms of a test requires collecting data that link the forms. Problems arise when the test forms to be linked are given to groups that are not equivalent and the forms share no common items by which to measure or adjust for this group nonequivalence. We compared three approaches to adjusting for group…