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Cain, Timothy Reese – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2014
Scholars and practitioners of learning outcomes assessment widely recognize the importance of faculty engagement with the planning and implementation of assessment activities. Yet garnering participation by the majority of faculty has remained a significant challenge due in part to faculty concerns over the purposes of assessment, the value that…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Outcome Measures
Hutchings, Pat; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Ewell, Peter T. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2014
The Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) first released by Lumina Foundation in 2011 and revised in 2014 sets forth a vision of what students should know and be able to do at the associate, bachelor's, and master's levels. It also carries an important message about assessment. Unlike the popular model of assessment as a sampling of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Degree Requirements, Assignments
Cristol, Katie; Ramsey, Brinton S. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
The last year has found critics and advocates of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) duking it out in the political arena. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an ardent supporter of high standards for some seventeen years, has recently lurched out of the safe haven of think tankery and into the boxing ring. Yet wherever one stands on the merits of…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Feedback (Response), Teachers
Rains, Thomas – A+ Education Partnership, 2014
Standardized testing serves several purposes. Tests provide feedback on a student's performance. They can help teachers understand student achievement relative to class objectives. Tests can also help administrators identify excellent teachers and those who need more professional support. And, likewise, they can help administrators and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Testing, Academic Achievement, College Readiness
Goss, Adrienne C. – Online Submission, 2020
The Rhode Island Education Policy Primer provides an overview of how public education operates in Rhode Island. The Introduction offers context on the inequitable origins of Rhode Island's public school system, as well as the role that activism has played in expanding educational opportunities. The At a Glance section provides a quick look at…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Public Education, Equal Education
Wagemaker, Hans, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
Although International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement-pioneered international large-scale assessment (ILSA) of education is now a well-established science, non-practitioners and many users often substantially misunderstand how large-scale assessments are conducted, what questions and challenges they are designed to…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Comparative Analysis
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2020
This year's Action Guide examines the need for new ways of measuring student success. Academic test scores are just one method of measuring student progress, offering an incomplete picture of student learning and growth. Educators and state leaders recognize that serving all students well requires focusing on their individual needs, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Measurement, Measurement Objectives
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2020
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is one of the world's leading educational research centres. Since it was established in 1930, ACER has built a strong reputation as a provider of reliable support and expertise to education policymakers and professional practitioners. Each year, ACER is involved in a large number of research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Rutkowski, David – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
In this article I advocate for a new discussion in the field of international large-scale assessments; one that calls for a reexamination of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and their use. Expanding on the high-quality work in this special issue I focus on three inherent limitations to international large-scale assessments noted by…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement
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National Academies Press, 2018
Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that are available and the skills that are required. As more data and ways of analyzing them become available, more aspects of the economy, society, and daily life will…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Data, Data Analysis, Information Utilization
Care, Esther; Kim, Helyn; Vista, Alvin; Anderson, Kate – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
There has been a major shift in educational learning goals--as seen most recently by Goal 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals--focused on global citizenship education and education for sustainable development. The shift concerns recognition of the need for education systems to equip learners with competencies such as problem solving,…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Educational Assessment, Skill Development, Job Skills
Achieve, Inc., 2018
"Transforming Science Assessment: Systems for Innovation," is a series of resources designed to provide state education leaders with: (1) Information about how states are currently pursuing statewide assessment systems in science; (2) Analyses of what features influence different approaches, with an eye to supporting state leaders as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Science Tests
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Van Lare, Michelle D. – Journal of School Leadership, 2016
Ever-growing expectations exist for educators to use assessments to collect, analyze, and interpret data, but how, if at all, are these processes affecting instruction? This descriptive case study of one team of second grade teachers offers an analysis of the links between teachers' use of data within their collaborative team meetings and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Teaching Methods, Grade 2
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Zaitseva, Natalia A.; Ilina, Elena L.; Nikolskaya, Elena Y.; Romanova, Marianna M.; Larionova, Anna A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The importance and relevance of research of questions is determined by the intensive development of the tourism and hospitality industry, the consequence of which is the increase of business needs for skilled personnel. The purpose of this paper is to examine and assess the main strategic trends in educational technologies and methods used for…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Strategic Planning, Educational Trends, Educational Quality
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Al-Ammary, Jaflah; Mohammed, Zainab; Omran, Fatima – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
Despite the effectiveness of using e-learning, educational institutions are still facing many challenges with the e-learning infrastructure and technical aspects, practices and capabilities, and improvement in learning outcome. Hence, a need for framework to benchmark the e-learning capability maturity level and measure the extent to what it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Questionnaires, Educational Assessment
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