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Eyal Eckhaus; Rivka Wadmany; Nitza Davidovitch – Cogent Education, 2024
In academic studies, some course assignments involve slideshows. The current study examines how students perceive the benefits and shortcomings of slideshows as a course evaluation tool. The study combines qualitative and quantitative tools. Predicated on 66 fully completed questionnaires, we perform qualitative analysis, followed by a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Visual Aids
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English, John; English, Tammy – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2015
In this paper we discuss the use of automated assessment in a variety of computer science courses that have been taught at Israel Academic College by the authors. The course assignments were assessed entirely automatically using Checkpoint, a web-based automated assessment framework. The assignments all used free-text questions (where the students…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Wolffensperger, Yochie; Patkin, Dorit – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
The present paper engages in a qualitative research of self-assessment of two lecturers and their students within the framework of a mathematics teaching seminar course (a course during which students submit a research final work) at a teachers' training college in Israel. Two lecturers co-teach in the course - one of them in the discipline of…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Evaluation Methods, College Faculty
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Rashkovits, Rami; Lavy, Ilana – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
This study discusses and presents various strategies employed by novice programmers concerning exception handling. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: we provide an analysis tool to measure the level of assimilation of exception handling mechanism; we present and analyse strategies to handle exceptions; we present and analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming Languages, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
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Peled, Yehuda; Sarid, Miriam – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of multi-drafting among college students according to demographic characteristics and measure its impact on students' achievements. Design/methodology/approach: The research was conducted in two stages. First, a preliminary research based on data from the Highlearn web-based content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Marital Status, Student Attitudes
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Ben-Simon, Anat; Budescu, David V.; Nevo, Baruch – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1997
Tested methods designed to extract information about examinees' partial knowledge when taking multiple-choice tests. Applied seven testing methods to multiple-choice tests and analyzed results according to six criteria. Results with 2,989 Israeli college applicants show a tendency on the part of examinees to take advantage of the special methods.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Cohen, Erik H. – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
The present study attempts to discover organizing principles in college students' evaluations of their formal and informal educational programs. The study was conducted during the 1998-99 academic year. The data consisted of 14,344 assessment sheets completed by students at the Jordan Valley Regional College in Israel. Each assessment sheet…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Geva-May, Iris – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
The extent to which student questionnaire responses reflect students' active behavior was studied through course attendance patterns of Israeli undergraduates, student completion of a questionnaire rating college lecturers, and interviews with 36 students. In this instance, the questionnaire did not reflect actual behavior. Explanations are…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Patterns, College Faculty, College Students
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers