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Direct linkSaheed Oyeniran; Musa Adekunle Ayanwale; Adedapo Adetiba Atolagbe; Mapulane Mochekele – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: We developed the Goal Achievement Scale in Colleges of Education (GASCE) to address the lack of context-specific assessment tools for evaluating goal achievement in Nigerian colleges of education. Existing instruments fail to capture the unique challenges of these institutions, making a reliable and valid scale essential for assessing…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Success, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
Zhang Yuting; Ma Weiwei; Xiao Min; Li Zhipeng – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The rapid advancement of educational technologies worldwide and the ubiquitousness of technology-integrated teaching and learning have posed great challenges to teachers. Technology leadership is an emerging focus among educators, it involves using technologies to lead learners' knowledge, abilities, and values development. However, there are few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Responsibility
Download full textScott F. Marion, Editor; James W. Pellegrino, Editor; Amy I. Berman, Editor – National Academy of Education, 2024
High-quality assessments are crucial to many aspects of the educational process. They can help policymakers monitor long-term educational trends, assist state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) in allocating resources and professional development opportunities, provide insights to teachers about how well students…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Test Validity
Hayward, Craig – RP Group, 2023
The RP Group's Multiple Measures Assessment Project (MMAP) produced this technical report as part of a series on how California's community colleges can ensure more English learners (ELs) successfully complete "gateway" English coursework -- courses that satisfy the English writing requirements for completion of an associate's degree as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement
Luo, Jiahui; Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Zhao, Yue – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Intensive research attention has focused on developing students' evaluative judgement within the higher education curriculum, but little has addressed how it can be measured. The contextual nature of evaluative judgement makes it difficult to generate an encompassing instrument, highlighting the need for situated measurement tools. Against this…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Evaluative Thinking, Intercultural Communication
Grissom, Jason A., Ed.; Youngs, Peter, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2015
This is the first book to gather and address what we have learned about the impacts and challenges of data-intensive teacher evaluation systems--a defining characteristic of the current education policy landscape. Expert researchers and practitioners speak to what we know (and what remains to be known) about evaluation measures themselves, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Test Validity
National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
Since 1973, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has gathered information about student achievement in mathematics. Results of these periodic assessments, produced in print and web-based formats, provide valuable information to a wide variety of audiences. They inform citizens about the nature of students' comprehension of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, National Competency Tests, Grade 4
Dynarski, Mark; Clarke, Linda; Cobb, Brian; Finn, Jeremy; Rumberger, Russell; Smink, Jay – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
This guide is intended to be useful to educators in high schools and middle schools, to superintendents and school boards, and to state policymakers in planning and executing dropout prevention strategies. The target audience includes school administrators as well as district-level administrators, seeking to help develop practice and policy…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Validity
Peer reviewedStobart, Gordon; And Others – British Educational Research Journal, 1992
Discusses gender differences apparent in British public examination entry patterns and outcomes. Questions whether examinations should be designed for equal outcomes and the assumption that assessment techniques may differentially affect performances of males and females. Argues that because other factors such as different experiences and…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Research, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSmith, Dwight L. – Journal of Higher Education, 1992
A study analyzed validity and reliability of grades and credits earned by college students in five departments, as indicators of student learning. Results indicate positive, strong correlation between faculty-assigned grades and student performance on external criterion measures. Validity of credits was not as clear. Strong and consistent evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
O'Sullivan, Kathleen A.; Zielinski, Edward J. – 1989
One of the most widely used instruments for assessing concerns has been the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) developed by the Concerns Based Adoption Model Project. In this research, different aspects of the validity of a modified version of the SoCQ produced for use with preservice teachers (PSSoCQ) are examined. In all, 10 different…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Brown, Gavin T. L.; Glasswell, Kath; Harland, Don – Assessing Writing, 2004
Accuracy in the scoring of writing is critical if standardized tasks are to be used in a national assessment scheme. Three approaches to establishing accuracy (i.e., consensus, consistency, and measurement) exist and commonly large-scale assessment programs of primary school writing demonstrate adjacent agreement consensus rates of between 80% and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Writing Tests
