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Martin Braun – New Directions in the Teaching of Natural Sciences, 2024
During the COVID pandemic, universities around the globe had to move not only their content delivery online, but also their assessments. Due to COVID causing significant upheaval in Higher Education (HE), this enforced experiment also afforded an opportunity to reflect on traditional, invigilated, closed book exams (ICBE) resulting in research and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
Demelash, Minale; Chinasho, Giorgis – Online Submission, 2022
The basic purpose of the present study was to assess the root causes and provoking factors of cheating during an examination and to propose possible solutions to take corrective actions in public secondary schools in Gedeo zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia. Because of the homogeneity of schools, five schools were…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Behavior, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Mukingambeho, Delphine; Nzahabwanayo, Sylvestre; Nzabarirwa, Wenceslas; Nizeyimana, Gabriel – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
The present study contributes to the existing literature on higher education in post-conflict contexts. It seeks to investigate the extent to which the University of Rwanda (UR) undergraduate students at National Police College (NPC) are conversant with major components of study skills mainly time management, note taking, reading, writing, test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Study Skills
Couchman, Justin J.; Miller, Noelle E.; Zmuda, Shaun J.; Feather, Kathryn; Schwartzmeyer, Tina – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
Students often gauge their performance before and after an exam, usually in the form of rough grade estimates or general feelings. Are these estimates accurate? Should they form the basis for decisions about study time, test-taking strategies, revisions, subject mastery, or even general competence? In two studies, undergraduates took a real…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Tests, Metacognition
Hove, Muchativugwa Liberty; Hlatshwayo, Abigail – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
University education has been massified in South Africa and this has disrupted conventions and practices of assessment. Universities are perceived as promoting complex achievements and complex skills through rigorous curriculum specifications and assessment instruments. Due to experiences in high school and the novelty of university education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Tests, Test Wiseness
Zilberberg, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recent calls for an increase in educational accountability in K-16 resulted in an uptick of low-stakes testing and, consequently, an increased need for ensuring that students' test scores are reliable and valid representations of their true ability. Focusing on accountability testing in higher education, the current program of research was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Accountability, Testing, Educational Assessment
Pike, Gary R. – Assessment Update, 2011
In this article, the author reviews King and Kitchener's "Reflective Judgment Interview" ("RJI"). On the "RJI" website Patricia King notes that a widely espoused outcome of college is the ability to draw reasonable conclusions about complex issues based on incomplete and/or conflicting information. Drawing on the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Evaluative Thinking, Interviews, Reflective Teaching
Chen, Dong – International Education Studies, 2011
Since the existence of self-taught higher education examination, its fast development has contributed a lot to national higher education reform and economic development. This paper, based on analyzing the talent-training mode of China self-taught higher education, proposes countermeasures and suggestions for problems in the mode at present.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Student Evaluation, Higher Education
Yin, Muchun; Sims, James; Cothran, Daniel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
Feedback to the test taker is a defining characteristic of diagnostic language testing (Alderson, 2005). This article reports on a study that investigated how much and in what ways students at a Taiwan university perceived the feedback to be useful on an online multiple-choice diagnostic English grammar test, both in general and by students of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Grammar, Language Tests
Shinn, Erin; Ofiesh, Nicole S. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2012
It is well documented that many successful individuals are challenged by cognitive-based disabilities that impact their performance in school and on tests. While commonly believed to be related mostly to the constructs of processing speed or reading fluency, there are other aspects of cognition that affect how an individual interacts with the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Faculty, Reading Fluency, English Language Learners
Socha, Alan; Sigler, Ellen A. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
The "Revised Learning Process Questionnaire" has been part of the development of a conceptual understanding of how students learn and what motivates them to engage in particular tasks. We obtained responses from 329 student volunteers at a mid-sized public university in the southeast USA. We first investigated whether the psychometric…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Multidimensional Scaling, Psychometrics
Holzer, Mary LaFrance; Madaus, Joseph W.; Bray, Melissa A.; Kehle, Thomas J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
Limited research exists related to empirically validated strategies to assist college students with learning disabilities (LD). Given that students with LD demonstrate both fewer test-taking skills and higher levels of test anxiety than their peers without LD, and poor test-taking skills contribute to higher levels of test anxiety, such research…
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Test Anxiety
Gray, Katti – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Howard University School of Law had a problem, and school officials knew it. Over a 20-year period, 40 percent of its graduates who took the Maryland bar exam failed it on their first try. During the next 24 months--the time frame required to determine its "eventual pass rate"--almost 90 percent of the students did pass. What they did…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Tuition Grants, Accreditation (Institutions)
Schinske, Jeffrey N. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
Testing strategies centered around open-ended assessments are generally thought to result in deeper learning compared with close-ended questioning. However, the time requirements involved in grading open-ended assessments on exams often limit the feasibility of using such assessments. This article presents an index card questioning strategy…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Testing, Grading, Higher Education
Berube, Michael – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The author, an English professor, shares his experience in retaking the Graduate Record Examination in English literature, 25 years after he entered graduate school at the University of Virginia. He took the practice test instead of the "real" test, for a number of reasons. He wanted to be able to look over the questions afterward; to…
Descriptors: English Literature, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Classics (Literature)