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Framework for Rating Higher Education Construction Programs in the US: Perspective of Administrators
Ghosh, Somik; Bigelow, Ben; Johnston, Jonathan – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2023
Ranking systems are readily available and offer a simplistic way to differentiate among universities. However, end-users are not informed about the criteria and methods used to develop the ranking systems. Whereas ranking systems are used by prospective students, their lack of reliability and transparency outweigh their benefits. There are a few…
Descriptors: Models, Construction (Process), Civil Engineering, Administrator Attitudes
Fabian Wolff; Markus Dresel; Martin Daumiller – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Dimensional comparisons--i.e., comparisons between achievements in different domains--have to date been examined particularly between students' achievements in different school subjects. Numerous studies have documented that dimensional comparisons between mathematical and verbal achievements significantly affect students' mathematical and verbal…
Descriptors: Self Concept, College Faculty, Universities, Foreign Countries
Bingxue Zhang; Yang Shi; Yuxing Li; Chengliang Chai; Longfeng Hou – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The adaptive learning environment provides learning support that suits individual characteristics of students, and the student model of the adaptive learning environment is the key element to promote individualized learning. This paper provides a systematic overview of the existing student models, consequently showing that the Elo rating system…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Models, Students, Individualized Instruction
Ahirwal, Mitul Kumar; Kumar, Prabhat – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Nowadays, with increasing competitiveness in every field, securing a good job may be difficult. In this connection, students aiming to get into the best educational institution (EI) would give them their best chance of quality education and good job opportunities. Institutional evaluation and selection are complex tasks that must simultaneously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Choice, Selection Criteria, Decision Making
Chirikov, Igor – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Global university rankings influence students' choices and higher education policies throughout the world. When rankers not only evaluate universities but also provide them with consulting, analytics, or advertising services rankers are vulnerable to conflicts of interest that may potentially distort their rankings. The paper assesses the impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics
Wang, Jue; Engelhard, George, Jr. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2019
Rater-mediated assessments exhibit scoring challenges due to the involvement of human raters. The quality of human ratings largely determines the reliability, validity, and fairness of the assessment process. Our research recommends that the evaluation of ratings should be based on two aspects: a theoretical model of human judgment and an…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Models, Measurement, Achievement
Lee, Jaekyung; Liu, Keqiao; Wu, Yin – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2020
This study examines international brain race for world-class universities as measured by the QS World University Rankings (QS) and the Academic Ranking of World Universities, particularly in the context of Asian nations' institutional competition and benchmarking against American counterparts. Applying mixed methods with statistical analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Reputation, Achievement Rating
Tindal, Gerald; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Farley, Dan; Saven, Jessica L.; Elliott, Stephen N. – Exceptional Children, 2016
Students with disabilities have been included in state accountability systems for more than a decade; however, only in the past few years have alternate assessments of alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) become stable enough to allow examination of these students' achievement growth. Using data from Oregon's AA-AAS in Reading during the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Achievement Gains, Outcome Measures
Alba, Brandy B. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation presents an in-depth case study investigating the developmental writing program at a small, private Christian liberal arts university in the Southwest United States. This developmental writing program featured an accelerated workshop model with course-embedded peer tutors. Research questions centered on understanding the…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Tutors, Peer Teaching, Acceleration (Education)
Kwiatkowska-White, Bozena; Kirby, John R.; Lee, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
This longitudinal study of 78 Canadian English-speaking students examined the applicability of the stability, cumulative, and compensatory models in reading comprehension development. Archival government-mandated assessments of reading comprehension at Grades 3, 6, and 10, and the Canadian Test of Basic Skills measure of reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Models
Florida Department of Education, 2016
School grades provide an easily understandable metric to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the general public can use the informational baseline school grade and its associated components to understand how well each school is serving its students. The school grades calculation was revised substantially for the 2014-15 school year to…
Descriptors: Guides, School Statistics, Grades (Scholastic), Evaluation Criteria
Cohen, Julie; Brown, Michelle – New Educator, 2016
Districts are increasingly making personnel decisions based on teachers' impact on student-achievement gains and classroom observations. In some schools, however, a teacher's practices and their students' achievement may reflect not just individual but collaborative efforts. In other settings, teachers' instruction benefits less from the insights…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Merit Rating, Achievement Rating, Achievement Gains