In this study, we compared results from a computer-based and paper-based exam in a sample of psychology students and found no differences in total scores across the two modes. Furthermore, we investigated student acceptance and change in acceptance of computer-based examining. After taking the computer-based exam, fifty percent of the students preferred paper-and-pencil exams over computer-based exams and about a quarter preferred a computer-based exam [Abstract excerpt from the authors]
As higher education places greater emphasis on empirical data from standardized learning, research regarding why assessment is conducted, how it is leveraged for change, and the ramifications of assessment's purposes must be elevated to a more meaningful level. To this end a new instrument--"The Survey of Assessment Culture"©--was developed to explore factors and strategies influencing the cultivation of cultures of assessment. [Abstract excerpt from the author]
This study focuses on the process of implementing self-, peer- and teacher-assessment in teacher education in order to examine the ways of applying these assessment practices and specifically aims at finding out the level of agreement among pre-service teachers' self-, peer- and teacher-assessments of presentation performances. [Abstract excerpt from the author]
In this paper the authors introduce a set of best practices for high-stakes assessment in CBE, drawing from both the educational-measurement literature and current practices in prior-learning and CBE assessment. [Abstract excerpt from the authors]
It is often argued that as "consumers" of higher education, students, parents and leaders need objective, comparative information generated through systematized assessment. In response, we critique this trend toward reductionist, comparative, and ostensibly objective assessments in the United States. [Abstract excerpt from the authors]
PISA - Measuring student success around the world: The OECD on Youtube: https://youtu.be/q1I9tuScLUA
"The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students." [from the OECD]
Assessment to improve student learning: Transforming a large physics course at Harvard: My University on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uwKJkxGmFOI
Louis Deslauriers & Logan McCarty present exciting findings about their work with undergraduate physics students at Harvard.
The basics of Student Learning Outcomes assessment (SLO): University of Florida Academic Affairs on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uXSf9a5UTF4
Timothy Brophy, Director of Institutional Assessment at the U. of Florida, talks, in depth, about develop the development, implementation and evaluation of measurable Student Learning Outcomes. **Best viewed with accompanying PDF adjunct material: http://assessment.aa.ufl.edu/Data/Sites/22/media/slo/slo_guide_2-4-13.pdf
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