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Direct linkLi, Tianxin; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Hawe, Eleanor – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Student self-assessment research underscores the significance of honestly recognizing strengths and weaknesses, facilitating self-regulated learning and progress. The Integrated Quality Assessment (IQA) in China combines self-assessment with other data to evaluate achievement, serving dual purposes: promoting students' awareness of their strengths…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrity, Cheating, Student Attitudes
Evans, Carol; Kandiko Howson, Camille; Forsythe, Alex; Edwards, Corony – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Over the last 20 years there has been significant growth in the volume of higher education pedagogical research across disciplines and national contexts, but inherent tensions in defining quality remain. In this paper we present a framework to support understanding of what constitutes internationally excellent research, drawing on a range of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Educational Research, Scholarship
Kelly, Anthony – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
The Research Excellence Framework is a high-stakes exercise used by the UK government to allocate billions of pounds of quality-related research (QR) funding and used by the media to rank universities and their departments in national league tables. The 2008, 2014 and 2021 assessments were zero-sum games in terms of league table position because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Quality
Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
As higher education quality assurance in many countries in Europe has become a mature activity, some agencies carrying out external quality assurance are developing beyond their core tasks and missions. The current study identifies new tasks taken up within quality assurance agencies and analyses the drivers behind such development. Based on an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
Chen, Yanyan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Using students' assessments of teaching at a top university in China from 2016 to 2021, this study examines whether evaluation of teaching improves teaching quality. Given the many doubts about the validity of students' evaluation of teaching, this study adopts a methodology to distinguish teaching quality improvement from the reversal effect. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Mason, Jaci; Roberts, Lynne; Flavell, Helen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Consensus moderation, where collaboration and discussion take place to reach an agreement on mark allocation, is a frequently used approach to quality assurance in higher education. Unit coordinators play a vital role in facilitating consensus moderation, yet limited research has focused on their role in moderation practices. This study explored…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Buckley, Alex – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Much is made of students generally rating assessment lower than other aspects of their educational experience. It is frequently cited in research literature as evidence for a general crisis in assessment, and it strongly influences institutional enhancement efforts and media coverage of student feedback. Focusing on the UK's National Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, College Students
Pastore, Serafina; Manuti, Amelia; Scardigno, Anna Fausta – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Despite the strong criticisms, mass student surveys play an important role in the quality assurance process of national higher education systems. While some national higher education systems have a long history of using student surveys to inform teaching and course quality improvement (e.g. the UK, Australia), in Italy, where the quality assurance…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Da Yan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
The aim of the study was to examine the effects of rubric co-creation on peer feedback. From a social constructivist perspective, rubric co-creation might have the ability to promote the quality of feedback messages, interactivities within feedback processes, and uptake of feedback information in a peer-based collaborative setting of higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Peer Evaluation, Peer Relationship
Ali, Hasan; Mohd Dodeen, Hamzeh – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
This study reports on an adaptation of the course experience questionnaire (CEQ) to the Arab learning context. An Arabic version of the CEQ was used to test the perceptions of a random sample of students at a public university in the UAE as regards their learning environment. The participants were 488 women students who study at nine different…
Descriptors: Arabs, Student Attitudes, Semitic Languages, Educational Experience
Ibarra-Sáiz, María Soledad; Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregorio; Boud, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Learning is not just determined by the curriculum, but by how it is assessed. This article focuses on the analysis of the role played by the quality of assessment tasks on learning in undergraduate courses. During two successive academic years, information was collected on the views of students on the assessment activities and practices that they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Learning, Student Attitudes
Martins, Maria João; Reis Marques, Tiago; Laíns, Inês; Leal, Inês; Pessanha, Inês; Brochado, Bruno; Oliveira Santos, Manuel; Pinto Teixeira, Pedro; Fernandes, Diogo Hipólito; Silva, João Carlos; Sampaio, Filipa Almeida; Brandão, Mariana; Morais, Inês; Laranjinha, Inês; Teixeira, Nelson; Fernandes, Tiago; Carneiro, Diogo; Calvão, Joana; Pratas, Miguel; Palmela, Carolina; Lima, António; Pires, Guilherme; Reis, Joel; Raimundo, Miguel; Afonso, Raquel Rocha; Costa e Silva, Miguel; Quintas, Catarina; Rodrigues, Tiago M.; Coelho, Nuno Henriques; Ramos, Sónia Afonso; Policiano, Catarina; Rato, Catarina; Faria, Daniel Candeias; Lopes, Alice; Rodrigues, Joana Ramos; Ferreira, Afonso Nunes; Costeira, Filipa de Sousa; Marques, Renata; Cordeiro, Hugo; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
The UK National Student Survey (NSS) is a sound and widely used instrument for assessing students' academic experiences. We aimed to translate the NSS for Portuguese students and to validate the instrument in a sample of medical undergraduates. The research team translated and adapted the NSS for Portuguese students (NSS-P). The survey was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Medical Students
Seyfried, Markus – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Following decades of quality management featuring in higher education settings, questions regarding its implementation, impact and outcomes remain. Indeed, leaving aside anecdotal case studies and value-laden documentaries of best practice, current research still knows very little about the implementation of quality management in teaching and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Preferences
Martens, Samantha E.; Spruijt, Annemarie; Wolfhagen, Ineke H. A. P.; Whittingham, Jill R. D.; Dolmans, Diana H. J. M. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Students do not always feel that their ideas for improving educational quality are taken seriously. Student-staff partnerships may help take this feeling away. In such partnerships, students equally collaborate with staff and participate in shared decision-making and implementation processes for improving education. However, empirical research has…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Higher Education, Educational Improvement
Gyamfi, George; Hanna, Barbara; Khosravi, Hassan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Engaging students in the creation of learning resources is an effective way of developing a repository of revision items. However, a selection process is needed to separate high- from low-quality resources as some of the materials created by students can be ineffective, inappropriate or incorrect. In this study, we share our experiences and…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Student Developed Materials, Educational Technology, Scoring
