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Newton, Paul E. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
This focus article provided the author with an opportunity to unpack the consensus definition of validity and to explore its implications in the light of recent debates. He proposed an elaboration of the consensus definition, which was intended to express the spirit of the "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" with increased…
Descriptors: Validity, Educational Testing, Psychological Testing, Definitions
Radford, John – Psychology Teaching Review, 2012
In responding to Jim Hartley, with whom I very largely agree, I first reflect on my own experience of teaching Psychology in an institution which was successively college of technology, polytechnic and university. In the second a new and fruitful method of assessing higher education essentially by peer review was developed, only to be destroyed in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Psychology, Teaching Methods, College Science
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Smith, Peter – Liberal Education, 2012
When the author attended a Network for Academic Renewal conference sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in 2011, he was surprised by the level of skepticism expressed from the podium about proprietary higher education. This article is intended as a response. From his perspective as a for-profit educator, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Proprietary Schools, Outcomes of Education, Educational Improvement
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Reichardt, Charles S. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2011
Maxwell, Cole, and Mitchell (2011) demonstrated that simple structural equation models, when used with cross-sectional data, generally produce biased estimates of meditated effects. I extend those results by showing how simple structural equation models can produce biased estimates of meditated effects when used even with longitudinal data. Even…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Statistical Data, Longitudinal Studies, Error of Measurement
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Chinyowa, Kennedy C. – Research in Drama Education, 2011
Most of the applied drama and theatre projects being carried out in African contexts tend to be one-off events with limited follow-up in terms of building the capacity of target communities and organising them for action. Besides bringing people together for workshops, performances and post-performance discussions, such projects simply pass by…
Descriptors: Donors, Nongovernmental Organizations, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
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Town, J. Stephen – Library Quarterly, 2011
Libraries are under pressure to prove their worth and may not have achieved this fully successfully. There is a resultant growing requirement for value and impact measurement in academic and research libraries. This essay reviews the natural history of library performance measurement and suggests that proof of worth will be measured by the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Measurement, Academic Libraries, Values
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Jarvela, Sanna – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The editors of this special section have focused on a theme that is both old and new. Research on help seeking has a long history and a strong theory pointing out that help seeking is an important academic strategy of self-regulation that facilitates learning. It is a new topic to consider in the context of broadened learning environments,…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Environment, Research
Au, Wayne – Rethinking Schools, 2013
This author explains why he believes that teacher education is under attack. The same forces that are seeking to dismantle teachers' unions and de-professionalize teaching have their sights set on university-based teacher education programs. After all, logic decrees that if teachers are to blame for educational inequality--as corporate education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Testing Problems, Educational Change
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Hill, Heather C.; Grossman, Pam – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this article, Heather C. Hill and Pam Grossman discuss the current focus on using teacher observation instruments as part of new teacher evaluation systems being considered and implemented by states and districts. They argue that if these teacher observation instruments are to achieve the goal of supporting teachers in improving instructional…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Measures (Individuals), Observation, Feedback (Response)
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Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany; Poonpon, Kornwipa – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
WeiWei Yang, in her forum piece, raises two main criticisms of the authors' "TQ" article on grammatical complexity: "The study the authors conducted [1] is not capable of answering development-related questions and [2] is mathematically questionable" (Yang, 2013, p. 190). In addition, Yang's article has a third goal that is not explicitly…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Writing (Composition), Phrase Structure, Criticism
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Mendenhall, Allen – Academic Questions, 2013
Readers of this journal probably know how the peer review process works in the humanities disciplines and at various journals. Therefore the author explains how the law review process generally works and then what the humanities can learn and borrow from the law review process. He ends by advocating for a hybrid law review/peer review approach to…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Humanities, State of the Art Reviews, Evaluation Criteria
DiSalvio, Philip – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
In April 2013, "NEJHE" launched its "New Directions for Higher Education" series to examine emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs, and practices. In this installment, DiSalvio interviews Adrianna Kezar, professor of higher education at the University of Southern California…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interviews, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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McKinney, Kinsey – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
This article presents the author's response to "How Do We See What We See? Pedagogical Lacunae and Their Pitfalls in the Classroom" by Jennifer A. Rich. McKinney describes how she tweaked a rhetorical analysis assignment to have it produce more summary, description and response. She stresses that teachers can create a more rhetorically viable…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, College Faculty, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Flynn, Elizabeth A. – Writing Instructor, 2011
In this article, the author revisits her essay, "Students as Readers of Their Classmates' Writing," by providing a review of the literature on peer review over the past three decades and comments on patterns she sees in waves of peer review research and theorizing. She describes her subsequent experience with peer review in her own classes, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Peer Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Fletcher, J. D.; Tobias, Sigmund – Educational Technology, 2011
Evidence collected on the effectiveness of four educational technologies is briefly reviewed. The authors conclude that there is reasonable evidence that computer-assisted instruction can have at least a modest effect on improving learning and probably more when its instructional approaches are properly matched to instructional objectives, that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
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