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Breslin, Dermot – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Whilst formative feedback has been highlighted as a key element in both student satisfaction and learning, research highlights the dissatisfaction of both tutors and students with its effectiveness in improving performance. This study tracks changes in undergraduate student satisfaction and performance across three cohorts in response to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Performance Factors, Academic Achievement, Student Satisfaction
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Spooner, Sarah Louise; Jensen, Eric Allen; Tracey, Louise; Marshall, Andrew Robert – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2021
Live animal shows, which combine animal facts with trained behaviours, are commonly used to engage zoo visitors globally. However, such shows have been criticised for portraying a potentially unhelpful image of 'performing animals' and have raised issues of animal welfare ethics. Little is known about the educational effectiveness of these shows.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Animals, Recreational Facilities
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Reymert, Ingvild; Jungblut, Jens; Borlaug, Siri B. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Studies on academic recruitment processes have demonstrated that universities evaluate candidates for research positions using multiple criteria. However, most studies on preferences regarding evaluative criteria in recruitment processes focus on a single country, while cross-country studies are rare. Additionally, though studies have documented…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Organizational Culture, Faculty Recruitment, International Studies
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O'Connell, Catherine; O'Siochru, Cathal; Rao, Namrata – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The research literature emphasises the emergence -- in the English context particularly -- of performative accountabilities associated with metrics-based evaluation. Recent studies observe uneven effects of such evaluations at organisational level. This UK-based study examines academics' perceptions of the fairness of organisational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Measurement, Justice
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Louise C. Occomore-Kent; John C. Hardman; Justin W. G. Roe; Paula Bradley; Paul N. Carding; Joanne M. Patterson – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Over 200,000 patients are referred onto the suspected head and neck cancer (HNC) pathway annually in the UK, with around 3% receiving a cancer diagnosis. With new HNC advancements in identifying patients at low risk of a cancer diagnosis, one proposal is a speech and language therapy (SLT)-led first point of contact clinic for low-risk…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Therapy, Clinics
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Milagros Castillo-Montoya; Manuel Madriaga – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This Point of Departure ponders the question of decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education. In addressing this question, we, as scholars of color who work in the academy in the US and the UK, have leaned on the work of Shahjahan, Estera, Surla, and Edwards' (2022) '"Decolonizing" Curriculum and Pedagogy: A comparative review…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Student Evaluation, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Sapouna, Maria – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
The patchwork text is an assessment method whereby students produce and share short pieces of writing over the course of a module that are subsequently integrated in a final summative piece. This paper reports on the experience of using this method of assessment in a criminal justice module. The objective behind introducing this form of assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Cooperative Learning
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Muppala, Siva P. R.; Chandramohan, Balasubramanyam – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
In this work we focussed on assessment and quantification of students' prior knowledge at the start of their classes and the learning and teaching feedback given by them after their classes. Using questionnaires, we collected data on prior-knowledge/Student Learning Abilities -- SLAs and, students' performance/Learning Outcomes -- LOs. Our…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Multiple Intelligences, Prior Learning, Student Evaluation
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Kendon, Gill; Mazhurnaya, Svetlana; Ziomek, Anna – Language Testing, 2023
The main aim of this study was to investigate how oral fluency is assessed across different levels of proficiency in the Test of English for Educational Purposes (TEEP). Working with data from 56 test-takers performing a monologic task at a range of proficiency levels (equivalent to approximately levels 5.0, 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5 in the IELTS scoring…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cooke, Gillian – Research Matters, 2023
Natural History has been part of our curriculum since 1858. Not as a single, continuous subject but embedded in many different subjects and qualifications. As OCR prepares to launch a GCSE in Natural History, this article draws on the historical resources of OCR and its predecessor the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate to show…
Descriptors: Incidence, Relevance (Education), Educational History, Evaluation Methods
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Alethea Cassandra de Villiers; Robert Gillmer – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The aim of the article is to develop a framework for assessment for contemporary commercial music (CCM) in a music department that is still organised in a traditional way. Assessment of CCM in tertiary institutions and external graded music exams were described and analysed, followed by the presentation of an assessment framework.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Universities, Foreign Countries, Music
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Kassie A. Cigliana; Tom Gray; George Gower – Research in Learning Technology, 2024
An objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been recognised as a reliable but workload-intensive assessment method across health sciences studies. Though a variety of digital marking tools have been employed to improve marking and feedback provision for OSCEs, many of these require specialist software or maintenance. This pilot study…
Descriptors: Grading, Feedback (Response), Evaluation, Computer Software
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Amrane-Cooper, Linda; Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; Tait, Alan – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2023
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic the higher education sector, in the United Kingdom and internationally, transitioned to online assessment, at a speed and scale which might have been unimaginable under normal circumstances. The priority in the sector was to ensure that fundamental principles of assessment, including integrity, were…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Change, Integrity
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O'Donovan, Cian; Michalec, Aleksandra; Moon, Joshua R. – Research Evaluation, 2022
Problems framed as societal challenges have provided fresh impetus for transdisciplinary research. In response, funders have started programmes aimed at increasing transdisciplinary research capacity. However, current programme evaluations do not adequately measure the skills and characteristics of individuals and collectives doing this research.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Methodology, Researchers, Evaluation Methods
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Bandola-Gill, Justyna; Smith, Katherine E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Performance assessment is permeating increasingly diverse domains of higher education, even in areas previously perceived to be too complex and idiosyncratic to quantify. The UK's attempts to assess 'research impact' within the Research Excellence Framework (REF) are illustrative of this trend and are being closely monitored by several other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Case Studies, Story Telling
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