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Yüksel, Hidayet Suha; Gündüz, Nevin – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine opinions of the instructors working in three different universities in Ankara regarding assessment in education and assessment methods they use in their courses within the summative assessment and formative assessment approaches. The population is formed by instructors lecturing in School of Physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, College Faculty
Yun, Joonmo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Reading comprehension is an essential skill for success in school and post-school life. However, despite the importance of this skill, a considerable number of students in the U.S. have shown difficulties in reading comprehension. According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of the National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Factor Analysis, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Badeau, Ryan C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This thesis explores two case studies into the use of short answers and self-explanation to improve student learning in physics. The first set of experiments focuses on the role of short answer questions in the context of computer-based instruction. Through a series of six experiments, we compare and evaluate the performance of computer-assessed…
Descriptors: Physics, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Bauerlein, Katrina; Shertzer, Rebecca – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
Preparing lifelong, world-ready German learners means German language instructors must intentionally incorporate globalized themes and tasks into the high school German curriculum. In 2010, the College Board redesigned the AP German Language and Culture Exam to meet these needs. The new exam encompasses six course themes and requires students to…
Descriptors: German, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Baghaei, Purya; Ravand, Hamdollah – SAGE Open, 2019
In many reading comprehension tests, different test formats are employed. Two commonly used test formats to measure reading comprehension are sustained passages followed by some questions and cloze items. Individual differences in handling test format peculiarities could constitute a source of score variance. In this study, a bifactor Rasch model…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Test Bias, Individual Differences, Difficulty Level
Leber, Jasmin; Renkl, Alexander; Nückles, Matthias; Wäschle, Kristin – Learning: Research and Practice, 2018
According to the model of constructive alignment, learners adjust their learning strategies to the announced assessment (backwash effect). Hence, when teaching for understanding, the assessment method should be aligned with this teaching goal to ensure that learners engage in corresponding learning strategies. A quasi-experimental field study with…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Testing Problems, Educational Objectives, Learning Motivation
Worrell, Jamie; Duffy, Mary Lou; Brady, Michael P.; Dukes, Charles; Gonzalez-DeHass, Alyssa – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Many schools use computer-based testing to measure students' progress for end-of-the-year and statewide assessments. There is little research to support whether computer-based testing accurately reflects student progress, particularly among students with learning, performance, and generalization difficulties. This article summarizes an…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Generalization, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Litzler Jerman, Mary Frances; Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2016
This paper discusses the results of a study conducted with 218 students in the final year of high school to determine their opinions about the feasibility of using a tablet PC for delivery of a standardized English language test. One such test could be the English paper of the exam given to students upon completion of the Baccalaureate program in…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Student Attitudes, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language)
Keller, Lisa A.; Hambleton, Ronald K. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2013
Due to recent research in equating methodologies indicating that some methods may be more susceptible to the accumulation of equating error over multiple administrations, the sustainability of several item response theory methods of equating over time was investigated. In particular, the paper is focused on two equating methodologies: fixed common…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scaling, Test Format, Equated Scores
Papanastasiou, Elena C. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2015
If good measurement depends in part on the estimation of accurate item characteristics, it is essential that test developers become aware of discrepancies that may exist on the item parameters before and after item review. The purpose of this study was to examine the answer changing patterns of students while taking paper-and-pencil multiple…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests
Zhang, Haiyan; Kang, Kai – International Education Studies, 2017
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Systems (SBAC) started in the 2014-2015 academic year and has been regarded by many in the field as a radical effort to improve the American English Language Art (ELA) educational standards. These two consortia, being aligned with Common…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), College Readiness
Ksendzova, Masha; Donnelly, Grant E.; Howell, Ryan T. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2017
Money management is essential for financial health, and more research is needed to better assess people's money management practices. Therefore, we factor-analyzed 205 scaled questions from previous money management measures to select the best items and examined their internal consistency and convergent validity. Our resulting 18-item Brief Money…
Descriptors: Money Management, Personality, Personality Measures, Debt (Financial)
Walker, Ronda – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Previous studies (Collins, 2015; Kennan & Meenan, 2014) have shown how variations in text and task factors and individual reader skills affect performance on reading comprehension assessments. The present study examined whether different presentation conditions (silent reading, watching a video) and response formats (open-ended vs.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Format, Reading Tests, Reading Difficulties
Edward Paul Getman – Online Submission, 2020
Despite calls for engaging assessments targeting young language learners (YLLs) between 8 and 13 years old, what makes assessment tasks engaging and how such task characteristics affect measurement quality have not been well studied empirically. Furthermore, there has been a dearth of validity research about technology-enhanced speaking tests for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement
Ashraf, Hamid; Yazdi, Mona Tabatabaee; Samir, Aynaz – International Journal of Language Testing, 2016
The literature on C-test and Cloze test in a second language provides us with few accounts of the real mental processes that test-takers are involved in, which in fact indicate the real nature of what these tests measure. However, the literature leaves researchers with little attention to the cognitive processes involved in X-Tests. Therefore, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Protocol Analysis