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Shekhar, N. Chandra; Venkatasubbaiah, K.; Kandukuria, N. R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
Measuring overall service quality (OSQ) is gaining prominence in higher education due to the increased competition among engineering education institutions (EEIs) and growing awareness about value for money among the public. Determination of OSQ on certain institutional aspects is done by various agencies throughout the world. Each system uses a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Educational Assessment
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Madani, Rehaf A. – Higher Education Studies, 2019
Education is recognized as a human right since the adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 besides health and shelter. Education for All Goals was established where more than 150 governments have adopted world declaration on Education for All policy to support the universal right for education. The ultimate goal of many countries…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Educational Indicators
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Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Scott, Caitlin – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
U.S. education has experienced many waves of reform in responding to rapid changes in knowledge, technologies, and the economy. It is now widely accepted that, to succeed in the future, all young people must have the opportunity to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication competencies--often referred to as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Achievement Gap, Common Core State Standards
Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
The primary source of federal aid to elementary and secondary education is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--particularly its Title I-A program, which authorizes federal aid for the education of disadvantaged students. This report provides a brief overview of major provisions of the ESEA. It is organized by title and part of the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Hawaii State Department of Education, 2019
This data book profiles noteworthy academic events, trends and outcomes at the state and complex-area level. It includes tables, figures and narrative sections related to demographic, financial and educational performance. Also, comparisons to other states with characteristics similar to Hawaii are provided to illustrate relative progress or…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Tables (Data)
Council of the Great City Schools, 2020
In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts. The Council launched the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project to achieve these objectives. The purposes of the project were to: (1) Establish a common…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance
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Mugo, John Kabutha; Ruto, Sara Jerop; Nakabugo, Mary Goretti; Mgalla, Zaida – Africa Education Review, 2015
From the late 1990s, education in East Africa started to be appraised on the basis of enrolment. The universalisation of primary education that started in Uganda in 1997--and peaked in Tanzania in 2002, as well as in Kenya in 2003--was politicised as the epitome of education reform. Yet, alternative voices called for consideration of improving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Outcomes of Education
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Rawls, Janita; Hammons, Stacy – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
This study examined student learning outcomes for accelerated degree students as compared to conventional undergraduate students, disaggregated by class levels, to develop strategies for then closing the loop with assessment. Using the National Survey of Student Engagement, critical thinking and oral and written communication outcomes were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Acceleration (Education), Conventional Instruction, Outcomes of Education
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Watagodakumbura, Chandana – Higher Education Studies, 2015
We can now get purposefully directed in the way we assess our learners in light of the emergence of evidence from the field of neuroscience. Why higher-order learning or abstract concepts need to be the focus in assessment is elaborated using the knowledge of semantic and episodic memories. With most of our learning identified to be implicit, why…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Learning Processes, Neurosciences
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Kuo, Tony C. T.; Chen, Hong-Ren; Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Chen, Nian-Shing – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
E-learning is an important and widespread contemporary trend in education. Because its success depends on the quality of digital materials, the mechanism by which such materials are accredited has received considerable attention and has influenced the design and implementation of digital courseware. For this reason, this study examined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Instructional Materials, Electronic Publishing
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Brewer, Curtis; Knoeppel, Robert C.; Lindle, Jane Clark – Educational Policy, 2015
Educational accountability policy rests heavily on the assessments used to influence teaching, learning, and school improvement. A long-debated aspect of assessment use, consequential validity, plays an important role in public interpretation of assessment use whether for individual students or for state policy. The purpose of this survey study…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Stakeholders, Validity, Educational Policy
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Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Shavelson, Richard J.; Kuhn, Christiane – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
With the Program for International Student Assessment and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study surveys, competency assessment became an important policy instrument in the school sector; only recently has international competency measurement gained attention in higher education with the Assessment of Higher Education Learning…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Competence, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)
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Gansemer-Topf, Ann M.; Von Haden, Kasie; Peggar, Elyse – College and University, 2015
The admissions counselor position is a common entry-level professional position in higher education. However, little is known about the competencies needed to be successful in this position. Through interviews with entry-level admissions counselors, this study sought to better understand these competencies and their alignment with the recently…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Admissions Counseling, Higher Education, Competence
Lang, Charles; Heffernan, Neil; Ostrow, Korinn; Wang, Yutao – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
For at least the last century researchers have advocated the use of student confidence as a form of educational assessment and the growth of online and mobile educational software has made the implementation of this measurement far easier. The following short paper discusses our first study of the dynamics of student confidence in an online math…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Self Esteem, Mathematics Instruction
O'Malley, Meagan; Katz, Kristin; Renshaw, Tyler L.; Furlong, Michael J. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Researchers and educators are giving increasing scrutiny to systems-level constructs that contribute to safe, supportive, and effective schools, including school climate. School climate is a multifaceted construct that is commonly conceptualized as school community members' subjective experiences of the structural and contextual elements of a…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Definitions, Measurement, Correlation
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