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Download full textProsekov, Alexander Yu.; Morozova, Irina S.; Filatova, Elena V. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
The article considers the problem of graduate quality assessment from the perspective of various participants of the educational sphere. The research features the current state of education. It focuses on the national specifics that affect a particular model of education during its implementation. Modern education is characterized by interaction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Innovation, Educational Development
Florida Department of Education, 2020
All Florida schools teach the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics and the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) in Science and Social Studies. Student performance provides important information to parents/guardians, teachers, policy makers, and the general public regarding how well students…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, State Standards, Language Arts, Mathematics
Direct linkSchoenfeld, Alan H. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
The challenge of "educational" assessments--assessments that advance the purposes of learning and instruction--is to provide useful information regarding students' progress towards the goals of instruction in ways that are reliable and not idiosyncratic. In this commentary, the author indicates that the challenges are actually more…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning, Student Evaluation, Psychometrics
Kane, Michael T. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
In response to an argument by Baird, Andrich, Hopfenbeck and Stobart (2017), Michael Kane states that there needs to be a better fit between educational assessment and learning theory. In line with this goal, Kane will examine how psychometric constraints might be loosened by relaxing some psychometric "rules" in some assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Psychometrics, Standards, Test Reliability
Hodson, Derek; Wong, Siu Ling – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2017
Nature of science (NOS) is now a well-established focus of science education and a key element in defining scientific literacy. In recent years, a particular specification of NOS, often described as "the consensus view," has become very influential and has gained ready acceptance in many countries around the world as a template for…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Curriculum Development
Rohrbacher, Chad – Journal of General Education, 2017
This article's purpose is to make humanities professors' assumptions and beliefs about assessment more visible. It is important to understand how humanities professors view the assessment of general education, especially since those conceptions affect how they approach teaching and learning, and how they react to calls for assessment in their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Humanities Instruction, Educational Assessment
Khalifa, Wiem Ben; Souilem, Dalila; Neji, Mahmoud – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Regardless of the study level, the assessments applied in the different educational institutions in Tunisia raise many questions. Do these practices indicate the learners' cognitive metamorphoses? Do formative and summative evaluations intend to access knowledge acquisition at the expense of understanding? Is the content of the evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation
Downey, Jillian Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As the field of education continues to grow, new methods and approaches to teaching are being developed with the goal of improving students' understanding of concepts. While research exists showing positive effects for particular teaching methods in small case studies, generalizations to larger populations of students, which are needed to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Hackman, Erika R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological study examined the lived experience of community college faculty champions of learning outcomes assessment. This study sought to elucidate the experiences of faculty champions of assessment by exploring both what the participants experienced as well as how they experienced their roles in leading assessment work on their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation
Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Chu, Man-Wai – International Journal of Testing, 2016
The objective of the present article is to explore differences and similarities between cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) and evidence-centered game design (ECgD) in the service of intentional hybridization. Although some testing specialists might argue that both are essentially the same given their origins in principled assessment design and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Games, Design
Wertheim, Jill – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
This article presents the author's response to the article "Taking Stock: Existing Resources for Assessing a New Vision of Science Learning" by Alonzo and Ke (this issue), which identifies numerous challenges that the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) pose for large-scale assessment. Jill Werthem comments that among those…
Descriptors: Measurement, Science Tests, Educational Assessment, Academic Standards
Lynam, Siobhan; Cachia, Moira – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
The quality assessment agency higher education review noted that assessment and feedback in higher education still remains an area of concern for students. Despite this, very little research has been carried out to assess students' experience of assessments. The evidence for what factors within assessments actually contribute to student engagement…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Feedback (Response)
Kiravu, Cheddi; Diaz-Maurin, François; Giampietro, Mario; Brent, Alan C.; Bukkens, Sandra G.F.; Chiguvare, Zivayi; Gasennelwe-Jeffrey, Mandu A.; Gope, Gideon; Kovacic, Zora; Magole, Lapologang; Musango, Josephine Kaviti; Ruiz-Rivas Hernando, Ulpiano; Smit, Suzanne; Vázquez Barquero, Antonio; Yunta Mezquita, Felipe – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to present a new master's programme for promoting energy access and energy efficiency in Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach: A transdisciplinary approach called "participatory integrated assessment of energy systems" (PARTICIPIA) was used for the development of the curriculum. This approach is based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Energy, Interdisciplinary Approach
Elliott, Julian G.; Resing, Wilma C. M.; Beckmann, Jens F. – Educational Review, 2018
This paper updates a review of dynamic assessment in education by the first author, published in this journal in 2003. It notes that the original review failed to examine the important conceptual distinction between dynamic testing (DT) and dynamic assessment (DA). While both approaches seek to link assessment and intervention, the former is of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Testing, Intervention
Kundu, Arnab – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2018
Elementary education is vital for children as well as for society as a whole. It serves three major purposes in an individual's life. First, it provides a foundation for learning the core subjects. Second, it provides an understanding of the individual's environment and society. Third, it helps to foster an interest in duty and responsibility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Elementary Education, Educational Practices
