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Denovan, Andrew; Dagnall, Neil; Dhingra, Katie; Grogan, Sarah – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
University life can be stressful, and accurate measurement of perceived stress is important for research and practice. However, despite widespread use, disagreement persists regarding the latent structure of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which poses serious consequences for how the measure should be administered. Furthermore, factorial…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, College Students, Gender Differences
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Martins, Maria João; Reis Marques, Tiago; Laíns, Inês; Leal, Inês; Pessanha, Inês; Brochado, Bruno; Oliveira Santos, Manuel; Pinto Teixeira, Pedro; Fernandes, Diogo Hipólito; Silva, João Carlos; Sampaio, Filipa Almeida; Brandão, Mariana; Morais, Inês; Laranjinha, Inês; Teixeira, Nelson; Fernandes, Tiago; Carneiro, Diogo; Calvão, Joana; Pratas, Miguel; Palmela, Carolina; Lima, António; Pires, Guilherme; Reis, Joel; Raimundo, Miguel; Afonso, Raquel Rocha; Costa e Silva, Miguel; Quintas, Catarina; Rodrigues, Tiago M.; Coelho, Nuno Henriques; Ramos, Sónia Afonso; Policiano, Catarina; Rato, Catarina; Faria, Daniel Candeias; Lopes, Alice; Rodrigues, Joana Ramos; Ferreira, Afonso Nunes; Costeira, Filipa de Sousa; Marques, Renata; Cordeiro, Hugo; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
The UK National Student Survey (NSS) is a sound and widely used instrument for assessing students' academic experiences. We aimed to translate the NSS for Portuguese students and to validate the instrument in a sample of medical undergraduates. The research team translated and adapted the NSS for Portuguese students (NSS-P). The survey was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Medical Students
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Gee, Nick – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
This article investigates the motivations and strategies employed by respondents to a Likert-style course evaluation at a UK university. These attitude surveys, generating large amounts of quantitative data, are commonly used in quality assurance procedures across UK higher education institutions. Similar student survey results are now scrutinised…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Course Evaluation, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
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Webb, Rob; Watson, Duncan; Cook, Steve; Arico, Fabio – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Using as a starting point in the recent work of Mountford-Zimdars et al., the authors analyse attitudes towards expanding higher education (HE) opportunities in the UK. The authors propose that the approach of Mountford-Zimdars et al. is flawed not only in its adoption of a multivariate logistic regression but also in its interpretation of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Access to Education, Higher Education, Equal Education
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McNay, Ian – Higher Education Review, 2015
This article first reviews the objectives/ends of research quality assessment in several countries to draw lessons for the UK Research Excellence Framework and similar exercises. It then reviews work on performance management as a framework for reviewing the views of participants on the means to the ends--the management of their experience in…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Guidelines
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Ali, Nadia; Rose, Sarah; Ahmed, Lubna – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Undergraduate students' perception of feedback and level of engagement with the feedback they receive have gained increasing attention in the educational literature recently to identify areas which require educators' attention. However, research in this area has generally been based on limited self-selecting samples, and has not considered how…
Descriptors: Psychology, Undergraduate Students, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Village, Andrew; Francis, Leslie J. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2016
This article reports on the development of scales for measuring moral values in three domains: anti-social behaviour, sex and relationships, and substance use. Students studying religion at A level in 25 schools were invited to respond to 32 Likert items that referred to a wide range of moral issues and behaviours, employing a 5-point response…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Moral Values, Likert Scales, Attitude Measures
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Cumming, Jennifer; Woodcock, Charlotte; Cooley, Sam J.; Holland, Mark J. G.; Burns, Victoria E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
The aim of the present study was to develop and provide psychometric evidence in support of the groupwork skills questionnaire (GSQ) for measuring task and interpersonal groupwork skills. A 46-item version of the GSQ was initially completed by 672 university students. The number of items was reduced to 15 following exploratory factor analyses, and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity, Skills
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Bamber, Matthew – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
A group of postgraduate accounting and finance students were asked to participate in a three-phase exercise: sit an unseen past examination question; mark a fully anonymised previous student solution (exemplar); and then mark their own work. The marking process was facilitated by explaining and discussing the marking guide, assessment systems and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Self Efficacy, Accountability, Accounting
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Iannone, Paola; Simpson, Adrian – Research in Mathematics Education, 2013
A consistent message emerges from research on undergraduate students' perceptions of assessment which describes traditional assessment as detrimental to learning. However this literature has not included students in the pure sciences. Mathematics education literature advocates the introduction of innovative assessment at university. In this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Tests, Alternative Assessment
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Watkins, Diane; Dummer, Paul; Hawthorne, Kamila; Cousins, Judy; Emmett, Catherine; Johnson, Mike – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
This paper reports on the findings from a study undertaken to explore students' perceptions of the timeliness, accessibility, consistency, and quality of feedback and grading received electronically. The system used was GradeMark®, an electronic tool available through the plagiarism software provider, Turnitin®. 296 students from the Schools of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Medical Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes
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Nicholson, Laura; Putwain, David; Connors, Liz; Hornby-Atkinson, Pat – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
This study examined how expectations of independent study and academic behavioural confidence predicted end-of-semester marks in a sample of undergraduate students. Students' expectations and academic behavioural confidence were measured near the beginning of the semester, and academic performance was taken from aggregated end-of-semester marks.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Grades (Scholastic)
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Bond, Christopher; Hsu, Marc Ting-Chun – Journal of International Students, 2011
This study reviews and evaluates international students' perceptions of UK banks. The specific research objectives were to identify international students' expectations and perceptions of service quality from UK banks and to assess the quality GAP or dissonance between these. A total of 297 international students studying in the UK responded to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Banking, Student Attitudes, Surveys
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Turel, Yalin Kilic – Computers & Education, 2011
The interactive whiteboard (IWB) has become a popular technology for instructors over the last decade. Though research asserts that the IWBs facilitate learning in different ways, there is a lack of studies examining actual IWB use in classroom settings based on learners' perspectives by means of valid instruments. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Validity, Student Surveys
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Rice, Frances; Frederickson, Norah; Seymour, Joanna – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: The primary-secondary transition can negatively affect pupils' emotional and psychological adjustment. However, methods for assessing concerns regarding secondary school are limited. A reliable and valid measure of transition-related concerns would be useful both in evaluating and shaping the content and delivery of universal and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Psychology, Depression (Psychology)
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