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Tom Benton – Research Matters, 2024
Educational assessment is used throughout the world for a range of different formative and summative purposes. Wherever an assessment is developed, whether by a teacher creating a quiz for their class, or by a testing company creating a high stakes assessment, it is necessary to decide how long the test should be. Specifically, how many questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Test Length, Test Construction
Heather Kanuka; Erika E. Smith; Robert Luth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study explores faculty beliefs about teaching and learning in different institutional settings and over time. This study surveyed faculty at two Canadian universities, one research-intensive, the other teaching-intensive, using a conceptual replication of a survey originally administered in 1976. Some results differ from the original survey,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Research Universities
Liggett, Robert Scott – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2017
Today's society places a lot of pressure on schools, teachers, and students to improve test scores. This paper discusses the possibility of using mathematical manipulatives to improve student test scores and students' attitudes towards mathematics. Forty-three Grade 2 students with age ranges between six and eight from a rural town in Saskatchewan…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics, Manipulative Materials, Control Groups
Rusticus, Shayna A.; Lovato, Chris Y. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2014
The question of equivalence between two or more groups is frequently of interest to many applied researchers. Equivalence testing is a statistical method designed to provide evidence that groups are comparable by demonstrating that the mean differences found between groups are small enough that they are considered practically unimportant. Few…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Equivalency Tests, Simulation, Error of Measurement
Slepkov, Aaron D.; Shiell, Ralph C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
Constructed-response (CR) questions are a mainstay of introductory physics textbooks and exams. However, because of the time, cost, and scoring reliability constraints associated with this format, CR questions are being increasingly replaced by multiple-choice (MC) questions in formal exams. The integrated testlet (IT) is a recently developed…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Physics, Responses, Multiple Choice Tests
Huang, Xiaoting – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In recent decades, the use of large-scale standardized international assessments has increased drastically as a way to evaluate and compare the quality of education across countries. In order to make valid international comparisons, the primary requirement is to ensure the measurement equivalence between the different language versions of these…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Comparative Testing, Foreign Countries, Measurement
Froese-Germain, Bernie – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2011
This paper presents some of the major issues raised in Education International's preliminary analysis of the overall PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2009 study. Some of these issues are: (1) PISA has serious limitations. The study does not cover the full curriculum, focusing on a narrow set of subject areas, neglecting such…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation
Klassen, Robert M.; Aldhafri, Said; Mansfield, Caroline F.; Purwanto, Edy; Siu, Angela F. Y.; Wong, Marina W.; Woods-McConney, Amanda – Journal of Experimental Education, 2012
This study explored the validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in a sample of 853 practicing teachers from Australia, Canada, China (Hong Kong), Indonesia, and Oman. The authors used multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to test the factor structure and measurement invariance across settings, after which they examined the relationships…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
Shaw, Graham P.; Molnar, David – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
Medical education in the United States and Canada continues to evolve. However, many of the changes in pedagogy are being made without appropriate evaluation. Here, we attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of lecture capture technology as a learning tool in Podiatric medical education. In this pilot project, student performance in an inaugural…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Pilot Projects, Podiatry, Biochemistry
Ross, John A.; Gray, Peter – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2008
We examined how much agreement there was between scores from large-scale mandated assessments and report-card grades for 14,776 students in grades 3, 6, and 9 of a district in which conditions were conducive to alignment of assessments. We found significant mean differences between internal and external assessments: effect sizes were 0.29 to 0.63…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Grades (Scholastic), Measures (Individuals), Effect Size
Walt, Nancy; Atwood, Kristin; Mann, Alex – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not survey medium (electronic versus paper format) has a significant effect on the results achieved. To compare survey media, responses from elementary students to British Columbia's Satisfaction Survey were analyzed. Although this study was not experimental in design, the data set served as a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students

Ellis, E. N. – 1972
Results of the administration in 1971 of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey D, Form 1M, to 5,480 fifth grade pupils of Vancouver schools are reported and compared with results obtained with the same test administered in 1968. The test results, which are presented in four tables, indicate that the 1971 students performed slightly better in…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Grade 5
Simner, Marvin L.; Mitchell, John B. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2007
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is widely used to screen university applicants for whom English is not their native language. Although the cutoff scores vary, in Ontario those with scores much lower than 550 are rarely admitted to any university. Two exceptions are the University of Western Ontario and its affiliate, Brescia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Validation, English (Second Language), Standardized Tests
Ellis, Dormer; Richards, Gerald R. – Orbit 22, 1974
This article (in French with no translation) describes the development and evaluation of tests designed for French-speaking students in Ontario. (MBM)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Testing, Evaluation, Mathematics

Ellis, E. N. – 1972
Results of a survey test in arithmetic, administered to all 5,118, year 3 pupils of Vancouver schools during the week of May 29-June 2, 1972, are summarized and compared with those of 1969. The two parts of the test--Number Work and Problems--were given in separate sessions. Three tables present the test results data. The data show that the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Comparative Testing, Educational Research