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Ghiso, María Paula; Burdick-Shepherd, Stephanie – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: This paper is part of the special issue "Reimagining Research and Practice at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Teaching, and Teacher Education." Early childhood initiatives have joined a nexus of educational reforms characterized by increased accountability and a focus on measurement as a marker of student and teacher learning,…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Philosophy, Teacher Education, Power Structure
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Grek, Sotiria – International Review of Education, 2020
Through their collaborative practices of quantification and standardisation in large-scale comparative literacy and numeracy surveys, international organisations (IOs) are both constituting new realities and being reconstituted themselves. This article aims to substantiate how the dominance of global measurement regimes has had profound…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Governance, Sustainable Development, International Cooperation
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Jiao, Hong; Lissitz, Robert W. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
This paper discusses the unprecedented challenges and possible directions in which the field of educational assessment is going after the outbreak of COVID-19. Though the pandemic leads to a lot of pressure related to instruction, learning, and assessment, it also provides opportunities that are likely to require changes to the current theories…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
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Curran, F. Chris; Little, Michael H.; Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Domina, Thurston – Educational Policy, 2020
Kindergarten readiness assessments are commonly used in schools nationwide. Prior work shows that the use of such assessments for class placement decisions has increased in recent years. This article uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of 2011 to explore whether the use of readiness assessments for such purpose predicts differential…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Educational Assessment, Student Placement
Seema Mahato – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Most evaluation activities are initiated during times of crises when resource constraints compel attention towards using evaluation as a strategy to "do more with less." In other words, evaluations tend to gain attention when resources are limited and there is a need to ration the amount of resources that can be invested towards any…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Educational Assessment
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Thu D. Pham; Levon E. Blue; Angela Baeza; Peter J. Anderson; Congcong Xing; Melanie Saward – Student Success, 2025
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students enrolled at universities continues to increase; however, completion rates have not. In this study, we sought to understand what contributes to university completion rates by Indigenous Australian students. We employed a mixed-method approach, utilising the higher education success factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, College Students
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Qian, Jiahe; Li, Shuhong – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
In recent years, harmonic regression models have been applied to implement quality control for educational assessment data consisting of multiple administrations and displaying seasonality. As with other types of regression models, it is imperative that model adequacy checking and model fit be appropriately conducted. However, there has been no…
Descriptors: Models, Regression (Statistics), Language Tests, Quality Control
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Abels, Patricia; Nguyen, Ha Duy Mong; Kawamura, Hiroaki; Chikada, Masahiro – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Higher education has jumped into the quality movement with expectations of enhancing the excellence of education being received by students. The total quality management philosophy that dominated the manufacturing industry has found its way into the education industry. W. Edwards Deming developed a set of 14 quality management principles, which…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Mølstad, Christina Elde; Prøitz, Tine S.; Dieude, Alessandra – Curriculum Journal, 2021
Education policy development internationally reflect a widespread expansion of learning outcome orientation in policy, curricula and assessment. In this paper, teachers' perceptions about their work are explored, as goals and assessment play a more prominent role driven by the introduction of a learning outcomes-oriented system. This is…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Objectives, Educational Assessment, Teacher Attitudes
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Gajparia, Jaya; Strachan, Glenn; Vare, Paul; Ferguson, Therese – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021
This paper offers a rationale for how ESD related learning at postgraduate level can be assessed. It proposes a framework for evaluating whether assessments in Master's level programmes align with the pedagogical approach of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). If assessment is to contribute to the overall learning process, then the nature…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Sustainable Development, Educational Assessment
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Oguguo, Basil C. E.; Nannim, Fadip Audu; Agah, John J.; Ugwuanyi, Christian S.; Ene, Catherine U.; Nzeadibe, Augustina C. – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This study determined the effect of Learning Management system (LMS) on students performance in educational measurement and evaluation course. A non-equivalent group quasi experimental research design was adopted for the study, using a population of all the undergraduate students in Imo State University, Nigeria. A sample of 232 students was…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
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Castillo-Montoya, Milagros – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
Assessment is a core competency in student affairs, but scholars in the field of higher education and student affairs know little about how practitioners perceive and approach learning about assessment. In this study with 20 students in a student affairs master's program, I found they perceived assessment as the "wild card" and had…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Personnel Workers, Masters Degrees, Graduate Students
Dadey, Nathan; Keng, Leslie; Boyer, Michelle; Marion, Scott – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2021
State summative educational assessment is about to begin in earnest. Rightfully, many are raising questions about the quality, meaning, and appropriate use of the assessment results. This document was written to support state educational agencies (SEAs) and their assessment providers in devising effective and efficient analysis plans. This…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Test Use
Melody Zagami Furze – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Brain-based visual impairment is the leading cause of visual impairment in early childhood populations in the developed world and its contribution to childhood visual impairment is increasing (Bosch et al., 2014; Dutton & Bax, 2010; Hoyt, 2007; Kong et al., 2012; Kran et al., 2019). In order to meet the needs of this population, comprehensive…
Descriptors: Brain, Visual Impairments, Mother Attitudes, Neurological Impairments
Abdullah Abdul Wahab Alsayar – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Testlets bring several perks in the development and administration of tests, such as 1) the construction of meaningful test items, 2) the avoidance of non-relevant context exposure, 3) the improvement of testing efficiency, and 4) the progression of testlet items requiring higher thinking skills. Thus, the inclusion of testlets in educational…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Testing, Test Items, Efficiency
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