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Liandi van den Berg – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2025
Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) and the sudden shift to online learning, higher education institutions adopted various approaches to reduce cheating in online assessments, mainly involving online live proctoring (OLP). The international assessment integrity regulation trend also applied to a university in South Africa, where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
Atehortua, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Intelligence tests are used in a variety of settings such as schools, clinics, and courts to assess the intellectual capacity of individuals of all ages. Intelligence tests are used to make high-stakes decisions such as special education placement, employment, eligibility for social security services, and determination of the death penalty.…
Descriptors: Adults, Intelligence Tests, Children, Error of Measurement
Peguero, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Administration and scoring of cognitive assessments have evolved from a paper-based platform to a digital format. Since this advancement, Pearson has created a system (Q-interactive) that allows examiners to administer the WISC-V via two iPads. However, limited research exists exploring the effects of this new method of administration when…
Descriptors: Children, Intelligence Tests, Examiners, Computer Assisted Testing
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Pedersen, Sofie; Hobye, Mads – Education Sciences, 2020
Employing student-driven project work in a higher education setting challenges not only the way in which we understand students' learning and how we define the expected learning outcomes, it also challenges our ways of assessing students' learning. This paper will address this question specifically and illustrate with a case that highlights some…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Problem Based Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grading
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo – Centre for Economic Performance, 2013
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same school with and without external examiners. The indirect…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Examiners, Accountability, Grade 2
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Thurlow, Martha L.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Hodgson, Jennifer R. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2012
The read-aloud accommodation is one of the most frequently used accommodations. Many educators need training to more confidently select, implement, and evaluate the use of the read-aloud accommodation. Planning by special education leaders can help ensure that test day goes smoothly for students who need the read-aloud accommodation.
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Difficulty Level, Reading Difficulties, Testing Problems