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MacDermott, Denise – Education Sciences, 2019
Public perceptions, increased scrutiny and successive governments' reshaping and attempting to define what is and what is not social work has eroded the progressive and radical force of the profession. This article explores how students' perceive the profession and presents evidence from a small-scale study conducted in a Northern Ireland…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Social Work, College Students
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Patchan, Melissa M.; Schunn, Christian D.; Clark, Russell J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
We examined the influence of accountability on the consistency of peer ratings and quality of peer feedback by comparing three conditions: only rating accountability, only feedback accountability, or both rating and feedback accountability. From a large undergraduate course, 287 students' peer ratings and peer feedback were coded for rating…
Descriptors: Accountability, Peer Evaluation, Grades (Scholastic), Feedback (Response)
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Rahmatollahi, Maryam; Mohamadi Zenouzagh, Zohre – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
Research has already established the boundless potential of teachers in assisting effective learning processes, and there is still a need to expand research to illustrate interrelation and connection between the construct of teachers' professional accountability which moderates and directs student learning. To this end, a comprehensive review of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Learning Processes, Content Analysis, Likert Scales
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Ballantine, Joan; Guo, Xin; Larres, Patricia – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This research provides new insights into the measurement of students' authorial identity and its potential for minimising the incidence of unintentional plagiarism by providing evidence about the psychometric properties of the Student Authorship Questionnaire (SAQ). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) are employed to…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Generalization, Authors
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Bamber, Matthew – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
A group of postgraduate accounting and finance students were asked to participate in a three-phase exercise: sit an unseen past examination question; mark a fully anonymised previous student solution (exemplar); and then mark their own work. The marking process was facilitated by explaining and discussing the marking guide, assessment systems and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Self Efficacy, Accountability, Accounting
Bishop, Jesica M.; Bristow, Lora J.; Coriell, Bryn P.; Jensen, Mark E.; Johnson, Leif E.; Luring, Sara R.; Lyons-Tinsley, Mary Ann; Mefford, Megan M.; Neu, Gwen L.; Samulski, Emerson T.; Warner, Timothy D.; White, Mathew F. – Online Submission, 2011
The adoption of Common Core State Standards has increased the need for assessments capable of measuring more performance-based outcomes. This monograph brings together the current literature and resources for the development and implementation of performance assessment. The text was written as part of a project-based graduate course and has…
Descriptors: State Standards, Performance Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Standards
Brehman, George E., Jr. – 1972
The objectives of this study were twofold: first, to develop an improved version of the instruments used to measure Goal IV (Attitude Toward School and School Learning) at the fifth and eleventh grade levels in the public schools of Pennsylvania under a program of "Educational Quality Assessment" mandated by the legislature. Secondly, it was the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitude Measures, Educational Improvement, Factor Analysis