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Irina Bauer; Tanja Kunz; Tobias Gummer – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
In web surveys, no interviewer is present to clarify question comprehension problems, which can be particularly prevalent among respondents with low literacy skills. Although plain language is used in various contexts to improve text comprehensibility, its use in social science questionnaires has not been investigated to date. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Surveys, Data Collection, Questionnaires
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Razieh Mohammadi; Nasim Ghanbari; Abbas Abbasi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
As a formative assessment procedure, self-assessment aims to converge learners' and teachers' views in assessment. Hence, reducing the perceptual mismatches between the learners' and the teachers' assessments would positively affect the learning process. For this aim, the present study investigated to what extent the learners' assessment of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Criteria, Differences, Students
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Erica J. Lewis; Michelle Hesse; Catherine Copeland – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Innovation courses are needed in higher education to meet workforce demands and prepare students for societal challenges. Assessment of outcomes can be challenging in innovation courses, particularly those that leverage diversity to drive innovation. The authors report on assessment methods in one such course at a public university using the…
Descriptors: College Students, Instructional Innovation, Diversity, Performance Based Assessment
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Meaghan McKenna; Hope Gerde; Nicolette Grasley-Boy – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This article describes the development and administration of the "Kindergarten-Second Grade (K-2) Writing Data-Based Decision Making (DBDM) Survey." The "K-2 Writing DBDM Survey" was developed to learn more about current DBDM practices specific to early writing. A total of 376 educational professionals (175 general education…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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Rae, Mark G.; Abdulla, Mohammed H. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
Both summative and formative assessments are known to facilitate student learning and understanding and help students to identify areas of weakness. However, few studies have investigated students' preference for either summative or formative evaluations, particularly in the area of preclinical medicine. The current study addresses this deficit by…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Preferences, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Ketonen, Laura; Lehtinen, Antti; Koskinen, Pekka – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] In recent years, physics instructional labs have been under considerable research and development. However, there seems to be no shared understanding of how the assessment of instructional labs should be arranged to best serve students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, Summative Evaluation
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Susan Smith; David Walker – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Education-focused roles represent a large and rapidly increasing share of the academic workforce in UK higher education. This expansion has resulted in the emergence of dedicated career tracks running in parallel with established teaching and research routes. Role descriptors and promotion criteria for these roles typically require evidence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Promotion, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation
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David Boud; Margaret Bearman – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
There is a general tension between the individualised nature of current assessment practices in higher education and a collaborative approach to learning. This results in many dilemmas for educators as they try to balance academic integrity concerns and student preferences with social or collaborative assessment practices, including peer…
Descriptors: Socialization, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
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Purin Thepsathit; Kamonwan Tangdhanakanond – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
This research aimed to develop formative assessment rubrics for enhancing students' performance on Thai percussion instruments using the Many-Facet Rasch Measurement Partial Credit model (MFRM-PCM). Samples were high-school students playing four types of Thai instruments and the raters who were qualified and properly trained. The research…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics, Music Education, Musical Instruments
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Ye Qingyi; Wang Liangmin; Pan Senshan; Zhang Yifan; Li Jiayi – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Information technology advancements have facilitated the widespread adoption of online education, providing learners with more flexible and convenient means of accessing educational resources and completing learning tasks. To improve the quality of online education and promote collaborative learning, online assessment is crucial in this…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Assessment Literacy
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Lu Shi; Ying Wang; Jherian K. Mitchell-Jones; Marilyne Stains – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Assessment plays a critical role in instruction and curriculum. Existing literature on instructors' assessment practices and related factors has been intensively focused on primary and secondary education. This study extended the contexts of previous literature to post-secondary chemistry education by exploring general chemistry instructors'…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Chemistry, Science Teachers, Evaluation Methods
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Yingchen Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Surveys are typical for student evaluation of teaching (SET). Survey research consistently confirms the negative impacts of careless responses on research validity, including low data quality and invalid research inferences. SET literature seldom addresses if careless responses are present and how to improve. To improve evaluation practices and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Responses, Validity, Data Use
Soubhik Barari; Eric Newsom; Ji Eun Park; Susan M. Paddock – NORC at the University of Chicago, 2024
Prospective students and their families use college rankings to navigate their higher education options. Rising tuition and fees have made the college decision more fraught. Recently, the major college ranking providers have revised their methodologies to reflect costs and other considerations. These revisions raise important questions about the…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Evaluation Methods, Educational Quality, Student Costs
Ellie Lukas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation contributes to the discussion of what contributes to school district rankings in the state of Ohio. It uses Latent Profile Analysis to explore different variables at the contextual and district level as they correspond to Ohio's Performance Index academic measure and Value-Added academic measure. Results show that contextual…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Demography, School Districts, Evaluation Methods
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Katherine Connolly; Jessica B. Koslouski; Sandra M. Chafouleas; Marlene B. Schwartz; Bonnie Edmondson; Amy M. Briesch – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Adoption of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model has been slowed by a lack of available tools to support implementation. The Wellness School Assessment Tool (WellSAT) WSCC is an online assessment tool that allows schools to evaluate the alignment of their policies with the WSCC model. This study assesses the…
Descriptors: Usability, Wellness, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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