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McKinley, Danette W.; Hess, Brian J.; Boulet, John R.; Lipner, Rebecca S. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
Changes in certification requirements and examinee characteristics are likely to influence the validity of the evidence associated with interpretations made based on test data. We examined whether changes in Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification requirements over time were associated with changes in internal…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Certification, Graduation Requirements
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2014
Recently, the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) completed a study to connect the scale of the North Carolina State End of Grade (EOG) Testing Program used for North Carolina's mathematics and reading assessments with NWEA's Rausch Interval Unit (RIT) scale. Information from the state assessments was used in a study to establish…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Testing Programs, Equated Scores, Standard Setting
Johnson, Nate – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
In 2010, HCM Strategists received support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to engage academic researchers in identifying and discussing the best currently available ways to account for differences in college "inputs"--students, resources, and fixed characteristics--when evaluating postsecondary outcomes. The project, Context…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Outcome Measures, Achievement Rating
National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
Results from the 2013 NAEP assessments show fourth- and eighth-graders making progress in mathematics and reading. Nationally representative samples of more than 376,000 fourth-graders and 341,000 eighth-graders were assessed in either mathematics or reading in 2013. Results are reported for public and private school students in the nation, and…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Educational Indicators, Educational Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
Klapp, Alli – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The purpose of the study was to investigate how grading in primary school affected students' achievement measured by grades in 7th, 8th and 9th Grade and educational attainment in upper secondary school (12th Grade), and how the effect varied as a function of students' cognitive ability, gender and socio-economic status. The data derived from the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Longitudinal Studies, Grading, Elementary School Students
Butz, Nikolaus T.; Askim-Lovseth, Mary K. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
The ability to communicate effectively is an essential skill for graduates of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programmes; however, as synchronous hybrid learning becomes more common, business schools may find it challenging to assess students' proficiency in this core area. An additional layer of complexity is added by the burgeoning…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Synchronous Communication, Blended Learning, Masters Programs
Kuh, George D. – College and University, 2011
For better or worse, rankings shape public conceptions of collegiate quality. This paper reviews the history of rankings, analyzes what they represent, explores recent efforts to employ indicators in addition to institutional resources and reputation on which the most popular rankings are based, and evaluates the extent to which rankings serve…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Educational Indicators, Classification, Educational History
Gulla, John; Jorgenson, Olaf – Independent School, 2014
Having addressed variations of the question--How can a school's success be "measured"?--with mixed results across a collective five decades of service to boards, John Gulla and Olaf Jorgenson endeavored to develop a more helpful answer. To this end, they queried 200-plus leaders of California Association of Independent Schools…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Success, Outcome Measures, Achievement Gains
Sujitparapitaya, Sutee – Journal of Case Studies in Accreditation and Assessment, 2014
Despite the great value of student learning outcome assessment (SLOA), faculty have not fully embraced the assessment movement, and many remain locked in debates on its merits. To gain faculty buy-in and explain why many faculty were motivated to engage in outcome assessment, the modified CANE (Commitment And Necessary Effort) model was used to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation, Attribution Theory, Program Evaluation
Ross, Richard A. – Ohio Department of Education, 2014
The 2014 Ohio School Report Card grades schools on more measures, offering Ohioans an even clearer picture of how well their schools and districts are doing. With its new data, this year's report card shows parents where their schools need to improve. It includes grades of A through F for up to nine measures, depending on the school or district.…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Educational Quality, Schools, School Districts
Acar, Tulin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The aim of the study is to determine the status of Turkey among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) members and candidate countries through cluster and discriminant analyses according to PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2009 results. The study includes 475460 fifteen year-old students from 65…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Multivariate Analysis, Cluster Grouping
Atar, Hakan Yavuz; Atar, Burcu – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of some of the changes such as student centered learning (i.e. inquiry science instruction), outfitting classrooms with latest technology and computers that the reform movement has brought about on students' TIMSS 2007 science achievements. Two-staged stratified sampling was used in the selection…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Educational Change, Science Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Schulman, Karen; Matthews, Hannah; Blank, Helen; Ewen, Danielle – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2012
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)--a strategy to improve families' access to high-quality child care--assess the quality of child care programs, offer incentives and assistance to programs to improve their ratings, and give information to parents about the quality of child care. These systems are operating in a growing number of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Administrators, Quality Assurance
Safon, Vicente – Management in Education, 2012
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. This paper examines the causes of business school reputation using two competing perspectives: the meritocratic and the institutional. The meritocratic perspective is based on the belief that reputation is an outcome of the business school's…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Reputation, Path Analysis, Educational Change
Wilby, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
This article, updated and expanded from one written for "The Times Educational Supplement", 10 December 2010, asks whether politicians are right to quote the country's performance in international tests in support of such policies as re-introducing O levels. It finds reasons to doubt that the tests give an adequate picture of children's…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Robustness (Statistics), Educational Policy, Achievement Tests