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Lee, Nick; Chamberlain, Laura – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
Aguirre-Urreta, Rönkkö, and Marakas' (2016) paper in "Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives" (hereafter referred to as ARM2016) is an important and timely piece of scholarship, in that it provides strong analytic support to the growing theoretical literature that questions the underlying ideas behind causal and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Causal Models, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
National Council of Teachers of English, 2022
Writing assessment can be used for a variety of purposes, both inside the classroom and outside: supporting student learning, assigning a grade, placing students in appropriate courses, allowing them to exit a course or sequence of courses, certifying proficiency, and evaluating programs. Given the high-stakes nature of many of these assessment…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Position Papers, Writing Teachers, English Teachers
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James, Mary – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
In this commentary, Mary James highlights two problems she deemed critical during her work exploring the relationships between assessment and learning in theory and practice. First, efforts to improve assessment for learning were not always successful either in improving performance or in other ways. Second, and this may be a reason for the first…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Test Theory, Learning
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Learning Professional, 2021
Iheoma Iruka is founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and research professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on supporting the optimal development of children from low-wealth and marginalized communities and ensuring excellence…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Child Development, Low Income Students
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Ho, Andrew – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
This is a response to a focus article by Briggs and Peck (2015) in issue 13(2). It should have been published in issue 13(3-4) alongside a rejoinder by Briggs and Peck that did appear. Due to an oversight, it was not published there and appears here. See issue 13(3-4) for a rejoinder to this response. Briggs and Peck (2015) propose what amounts to…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Learning Processes, Misconceptions, Teacher Evaluation
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Sá, Maria José; Ferreira, Carlos Miguel; Santos, Ana Isabel; Serpa, Sandro – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
At a time of great dynamism among publishers of scientific publications, with the inevitability of Open Access and the ease of publishing online at low cost, it is possible to find publications with different levels of scientific respectability. In this context, the improvement of the quality of scholarly publications emerges as a critical element…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Faculty Publishing, Scientific Research, Periodicals
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Hodes, Jacqueline S.; McLaughlin, Jeffrey; Ocean, Mia – About Campus, 2019
Over the past 10 to 15 years, as the nation has discussed the high cost of a college education and the worth of the college degree and experience, community college has become a first-choice experience for many traditional college-aged students. Assessment and accountability occupy center stage in current discussions of higher education, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Access to Education, Equal Education, College Outcomes Assessment
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Hoyt, Gail M.; O'Sullivan, Roisin – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
Learning-focused teaching must take into account students' cognitive processes. Chew and Cerbin (2021) offer a conceptual framework based on nine interacting cognitive challenges faced by students to guide instructors toward teaching practices that provide the best opportunities for students to learn. The goal of this guideline article is to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning, Economics Education, COVID-19
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Melhuish, Kathleen; Thanheiser, Eva – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
The authors present two sets of replication studies and aim to confirm, refute, and expand prior work.
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Generalizability Theory, Research Methodology, Fidelity
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Vitello, Sylvia; Williamson, Joanna – London Review of Education, 2017
The distinction between external assessment and internal assessment underpins a major reform to vocational qualifications underway in England. To be approved by the Department for Education, vocational qualifications must now include a minimum proportion of external assessment, regardless of subject. This paper discusses the nature and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Qualifications, Educational Change
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Gupta, Sukanya – Intercultural Education, 2022
This article is a reflection of the author's experiences teaching a course titled 'Women In Islam' [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The…
Descriptors: Islam, Females, Higher Education, Course Descriptions
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Quijada, Maria Alejandra – Journal of Management Education, 2021
This article deals with my experience of struggling with mental health while trying to succeed in a management department. I will explore the realities of working as an academic in a business school, my experience as a new faculty member with mental health issues, the stigma I encountered, and how mental illness has challenged my opportunity for…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Bias, Mental Disorders, College Faculty
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Kettler, Todd – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2019
The movement toward open-science is multifaceted with the general goal to promote both better scientific practices and greater access to scientific information. One aspect of the open-science framework is the recommended use of registered reports replacing the legacy model that dictates research manuscripts are submitted for initial review only…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Access to Information, Gifted, Special Education
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Smith, Kendal N.; Makel, Matthew C. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2019
In response to concerns about the credibility of many published research findings, open science reforms such as preregistration, data sharing, and alternative forms of publication are being increasingly adopted across scientific communities. Although journals on giftedness and advanced academic research have already implemented several of these…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Scientific Research, Educational Research, Gifted Education
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Feldman, Jill; Kelley, John – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
In response to Eleanor Chelimsky's inspiring plenary address 3 years ago, and with generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Eastern Evaluation Research Society launched the Eleanor Chelimsky Forum at its 2013 Annual Conference. The objective of this annual Forum, which has become a hallmark event in the evaluation world, is to…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Evaluation, Best Practices, Theories
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