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Juknyte-Petreikiene, Inga – Quality of Higher Education, 2013
The article reviews forms of higher education internationalisation at an institutional level. The relevance of theoretical background of internationalised study quality assessment is highlighted and definitions of internationalised studies quality are presented. Existing methods of assessment of higher education internationalisation are criticised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, International Education, Higher Education
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Frejd, Peter – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
This paper presents a critical review of literature investigating assessment of mathematical modelling. Written tests, projects, hands-on tests, portfolio and contests are modes of modelling assessment identified in this study. The written tests found in the reviewed papers draw on an atomistic view on modelling competencies, whereas projects are…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Models, Literature Reviews, Educational Assessment
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De Lissovoy, Noah – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article analyzes the ideology of accountability in contemporary education within the context of neoliberalism and its reconstruction of social relationships on the basis of the market, competition and efficiency. Drawing on contemporary critical philosophical accounts, it argues that the scholarship on education and accountability has not…
Descriptors: Accountability, Ideology, Neoliberalism, Social Systems
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Winthrop, Rebecca; Simons, Kate Anderson – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
In recent years, the global community has developed a range of initiatives to inform the post-2015 global development agenda. In the education community, International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) have an important role to play in advancing a global shift in focus to access plus learning. However, there are a number of other assessment tools…
Descriptors: International Programs, Measurement, Access to Education, Educational Objectives
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Greiff, Samuel; Wustenberg, Sascha; Holt, Daniel V.; Goldhammer, Frank; Funke, Joachim – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
Complex Problem Solving (CPS) skills are essential to successfully deal with environments that change dynamically and involve a large number of interconnected and partially unknown causal influences. The increasing importance of such skills in the 21st century requires appropriate assessment and intervention methods, which in turn rely on adequate…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Testing, Intervention
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Upton, Penney; Taylor, Charlotte – Psychology Teaching Review, 2013
Although assessment is acknowledged as being of central importance to the student learning experience, assessment practices have been consistently highlighted as one of the weakest features by the Quality Assurance Agency and identified by many as a crisis within higher education. This paper explores the use of Patchwork Text Assessment within a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Undergraduate Students, Learning Experience, Psychology
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2013
As test designers work to craft the new, common assessments set to debut in most of the nation's public schools in the 2014-15 school year, their goal is to provide all English-language learners (ELLs), regardless of their language-proficiency levels, the same opportunities to demonstrate their content knowledge and skills as their peers who are…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, English Language Learners, Educational Assessment, Consortia
Wilson, Maja Joiwind – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this project, I examine the legacy of behaviorism's dismissal of experience on contemporary writing assessment theory and practice within the field of composition studies. I use an archival study of John B. Watson's letters to Robert Mearns Yerkes to establish behaviorism's systematic denial of experience and its related constructs: mind,…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Writing (Composition), Writing Tests, Educational Assessment
Squibb, Kathryn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Quality in early childhood settings has emerged as an important factor in determining whether the potential benefits of educational experiences before kindergarten will be realized. Research demonstrates that in order for such interventions to be beneficial to young children's development, the quality of their educational environments and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Intervention, Educational Quality
Marsh, Kimberly R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As the demand for accountability and transparency in higher education has increased, so too has the call for direct assessment of student learning outcomes. Accompanying this increase of knowledge-based, cognitive assessments administered in a higher education context is an increased emphasis on assessing various noncognitive aspects of student…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Assessment, Test Items, Individual Characteristics
Guskey, Thomas R.; Jung, Lee Ann – National Professional Resources, Inc., 2013
How do assessments for learning differ from assessments of learning? What is the purpose of grading? After nearly two decades of immersion in standards-based curriculua and instruction, our nation's educators are often still confounded by the (admittedly complex) landscape of standards, assessment, and reporting. In "Answers to Essential…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, Grading
Iowa Department of Education, 2013
This document contains summary information for the Iowa Department of Education's review of PreK-6th grade reading assessments for the purposes of Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring. It is intended to provide general information to help inform decisions about selecting assessments for use as a part of Iowa's Response to Intervention…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Screening Tests, Response to Intervention, Reading Tests
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Romanowski, Michael H.; Amatullah, Tasneem – Critical Questions in Education, 2016
Qatar is in the midst of a systemic education reform, Education For a New Era, steered by RAND's (a nonprofit research organization) analysis and report of Qatar's Educational system. Driven by a neoliberal agenda, the reform includes international curricula, curriculum standards, teacher licensure, and professional standards for school leaders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Ashfaq, Muhammad; Chaudry, Muhammad Ajmal; Iqbal, Muhammad Javed – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
The main objective of this study was to ensure instructional quality, effectiveness, efficiency and enjoyment. Instructional design maximizes the value of the instructions for the learners. Instructional design include identifying instructional out-comes, developing instructional contents and established how instructional effectiveness will be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Open Universities, Educational Improvement
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2016
As states begin to revisit or revise their accountability systems to include an additional indicator of school quality or success under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation (CSAI) has received queries regarding whether and how states are measuring school climate and stakeholder…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Quality
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