ERIC Number: EJ1440228
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 12
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That's Incorrect and Let Me Tell You Why: A Scalable Assessment to Evaluate Higher Order Thinking Skills
INFORMS Transactions on Education, v25 n1 p23-34 2024
We introduce a novel type of assessment that allows for efficient grading of higher order thinking skills. In this assessment, a student reviews and corrects a technical memo that has errors in its formulation or process. To overcome the grading challenges imposed by essay-type responses in large undergraduate courses, we provide a Visual Basic for Applications Excel tool for instructors, ensuring efficient grading of student submissions. We report our experience using this type of assessment in a multisection introductory business analytics course over several years and present survey-based evidence indicating that students perceive it to be clear and beneficial for learning.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills, Test Construction, Error Correction, Business Administration Education, Scaling, Computer Uses in Education, Grading, Feedback (Response), Teacher Response
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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