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Crystal Uminski – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The landscape of undergraduate biology education has been shaped by decades of reform efforts calling for instruction to integrate core concepts and scientific skills as a means of helping students become proficient in the discipline. Assessments can be used to make inferences about how these reform efforts have translated into changes in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Science Tests
Yihua Shen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research examined the Chinese National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in mathematics before and after the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, specifically covering the periods 1952-1965 and 1977-1984. The central focus was on the organization, structure, and content of the examinations, as well as their influence on and interaction…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations
Mohammed Ambusaidi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is an increased demand on nursing faculty to provide quality teaching and assessment. Nursing faculty are required to ensure accurate assessment of learning through testing and outcome measurement that are critical elements of the evaluation process. Likewise, nursing faculty should implement a logical evaluation system. However, the…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Test Construction, Test Validity
Arneson, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This three-paper dissertation explores item cluster-based assessments, first in general as it relates to modeling, and then, specific issues surrounding a particular item cluster-based assessment designed. There should be a reasonable analogy between the structure of a psychometric model and the cognitive theory that the assessment is based upon.…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Tests
Wetzel, Angela Payne – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Previous systematic reviews indicate a lack of reporting of reliability and validity evidence in subsets of the medical education literature. Psychology and general education reviews of factor analysis also indicate gaps between current and best practices; yet, a comprehensive review of exploratory factor analysis in instrument development across…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Scholarship, Writing for Publication, Evidence
Kumazawa, Takaaki – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Although classroom assessment is one of the most frequent practices carried out by teachers in all educational programs, limited research has been conducted to investigate the dependability and validity of criterion-referenced tests (CRTs). The main purpose of this study is to develop a criterion-referenced test for first-year Japanese university…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity, English (Second Language)