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Poskitt, Jenny – Assessment Matters, 2018
Exciting developments for New Zealand education have provided opportunities recently for teachers and other educators to express their professional aspirations in assessment. The mantle of fostering teachers' professionalism through strong relationships across the education sector and relevant stakeholder groups, and the provision of timely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, National Standards, Professionalism
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Zumbo, Bruno D.; Hubley, Anita M. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
Ultimately, measures in research, testing, assessment and evaluation are used, or have implications, for ranking, intervention, feedback, decision-making or policy purposes. Explicit recognition of this fact brings the often-ignored and sometimes maligned concept of consequences to the fore. Given that measures have personal and social…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Testing Problems, Measurement Techniques, Student Evaluation
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Baird, Jo-Anne; Andrich, David; Hopfenbeck, Therese N.; Stobart, Gordon – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
In response to the commentaries to their original article, the authors thank the commentators for their remarks and note that there is some general consensus across the commentaries around some major themes: (1) the lack of articulation between assessment and learning theories, particularly in relation to large-scale testing used for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Test Theory, International Assessment
Stiggins, Rick – Educational Leadership, 2018
Stiggins says that, to build better assessment systems, educators and education leaders need more opportunities to learn the basic principles of sound assessment practice. He lays out what he views as the fundamental elements of assessment literacy.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Principles, Educational Practices, Fundamental Concepts
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Miller, Robin Lin; McNall, Miles A.; Mark, Melvin M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2018
William Dean Crano is the Stuart Oskamp Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. A social psychologist, Crano received his MS and PhD degrees from Northwestern University, where Donald T. Campbell was his advisor and mentor. Dr. Crano has served on the faculties…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Evaluation, College Faculty, Educational Experience
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Lees, Rebecca; Anderson, Deborah – London Review of Education, 2015
This small-scale, mixed-methods study aims to investigate academics' understanding of formative and summative assessment methods and how assessment literacy impacts on their teaching methods. Six semi-structured interviews and a scrutiny of assessments provided the data and results suggest that while these academics understand summative…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, College Faculty, Semi Structured Interviews, Formative Evaluation
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Colestock, Ed – College and University, 2020
Emerging regulations require higher education financial aid staff to handle many tasks. Complying with these regulations and participating in mandated compliance audits are complex processes that require numerous departments to work in concert. This article discusses what steps colleges and universities can take to improve their compliance audits.…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Audits (Verification), Higher Education, Program Evaluation
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Islam, Md. Shahriar; Stamp, Kerry – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
In the final article of the special issue, we offer a reflection on the ideas presented by the authors and recommendations for future research on implementation and assessment of Global, International, and Intercultural (GII) competencies in higher education. Themes identified from the articles include the intersection of GII competencies and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cultural Awareness, Excellence in Education, Global Approach
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Halaweh, Mohanad – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
In recent years, entrepreneurship and innovation have become important topics in academia. In 2016, they were made a compulsory joint course subject for general education or college students in the UAE higher education system. However, this viewpoint article suggests that entrepreneurship and innovation should be an integral component of each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, College Students, Higher Education
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Elizabeth L. Day; Steven J. Petritis; Hunter McFall-Boegeman; Jacob Starkie; Mengqi Zhang; Melanie M. Cooper – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Green and sustainable chemistry (GSC) will become ever more central to the study of chemistry. This is demonstrated by commitments from the American Chemical Society, particularly the Committee on Professional Training and the Green Chemistry Institute, and the United Nations (UN Sustainable Development Goals), which underscore the urgent need for…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Education, Sustainability, Ecology
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Lee Hang, Desmond Mene; Bell, Beverley – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
In this commentary, we build on Xinying Yin and Gayle Buck's discussion by exploring the cultural practices which are integral to formative assessment, when it is viewed as a sociocultural practice. First we discuss the role of assessment and in particular oral and written formative assessments in both western and Samoan cultures, building on the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Written Language, Oral Language
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Wilkerson, Judy R. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This commentary on the article titled "Examining the Internal Structure Evidence for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers: A Validation Study of the Elementary Literacy Teaching Event for Tier 1 Teacher Licensure" provides an overview of Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), its relationship to edTPA and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Certification
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Wolf, Mikyung Kim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
This commentary highlights major validation challenges raised, explicitly or implicitly, from the four articles in the special issue on "Validity Considerations for Assessing Language Proficiency in Young Language Minority Students." They are concerned with: (1) the construct definition in consideration of young language-minority (LM)…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Proficiency, Student Characteristics, Student Evaluation
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Jackson, Liz; Peters, Michael A.; Benade, Leon; Devine, Nesta; Arndt, Sonja; Forster, Daniella; Gibbons, Andrew; Grierson, Elizabeth; Jandric, Petar; Lazaroiu, George; Locke, Kirsten; Mihaila, Ramona; Stewart, Georgina; Tesar, Marek; Roberts, Peter; Ozolinš, Janis – Open Review of Educational Research, 2018
Peer review is central to academic publishing. Yet for many it is a mysterious and contentious practice, which can cause distress for both reviewers, and those whose work is reviewed. This paper, produced by the Editors' Collective, examines the past and future of peer review in academic publishing. The first sections consider how peer review has…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Faculty Publishing, Editing, Scholarship
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Thiem, Alrik – Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
In a recent contribution to "Sociological Methods & Research," Baumgartner and Epple (B&E) employ Coincidence Analysis (CNA) to explain the outcome of the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative of 2009. Although the authors also present a substantive argument, their principal objective is to prove the superiority of CNA over…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Differences
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