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Marilee Bresciani Ludvik – Assessment Update, 2025
Higher education leaders face growing pressure to demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) of not only their institution but also each academic program offering. With increasing accountability and limited time for meaningful reflection on student learning and development, now is the time to rethink how a quasi-annual academic program review…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, College Programs, College Outcomes Assessment, Data Use
Thomas R. Guskey – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
School leaders struggle in their efforts to implement standards-based grading reforms in large part because they fail to address the inconsistency in grading practices among individual teachers. This article describes three crucial steps necessary to gain greater consistency in teachers' grading practices: (1) Reaching consensus on a purpose…
Descriptors: Grading, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
Robert Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
In June 2023, the Supreme Court held that the admissions systems at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University were racially discriminatory, effectively ending affirmative action. Are race-neutral admissions policies at selective K-12 schools next? Bob Kim considers two circuit court cases -- "Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Race, Diversity, Court Litigation
Tom Bramley; Carmen Vidal Rodeiro; Frances Wilson – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
Traditionally in England, exam results in General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSEs) (and before them O levels) and A levels have been reported as letter grades, with A (or A*) as the top grade, then B, C etc. The reforms gave the opportunity to revisit the arguments for different formats of reporting, and Cambridge Assessment contributed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Rating Scales, Scoring Formulas
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Jodi Cressman; Kelly Burns; Irina Calin-Jageman; Denise E. King; Anthony J. Krafnick; Yuanqing Li; Brooke Reavey; Penny Silvers; Scott A. Kreher – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Teaching evaluation is a central process across institutions for faculty retention, promotion, and tenure. While there is a rich literature on methods for evaluating teaching, there is less scholarship on the goals and processes for reforming systems of teaching evaluation. Surprisingly, there is little to no information on teaching criteria at…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør; Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Admission systems play a critical role in shaping educational opportunities by determining what choices are available to whom. Policy makers and institutions must balance multiple, often conflicting, goals which requires trade-offs between competing values. In this paper, we present core values for admission to higher education alongside a novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Admissions Officers
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Stephen Gorard – Review of Education, 2024
This paper describes, and lays out an argument for, the use of a procedure to help groups of reviewers to judge the quality of prior research reports. It argues why such a procedure is needed, and how other existing approaches are only relevant to some kinds of research, meaning that a review or synthesis cannot successfully combine quality…
Descriptors: Credibility, Research Reports, Evaluation Methods, Research Design
Elle Ting – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
Direct Admissions is a system developed and piloted recently in the US that defaults graduating high school students into post-secondary admittance by data-matching their profiles (transcripts, standardized test scores, and prerequisites) with institutions' preset eligibility criteria. As applicant and institutional interest in direct admissions…
Descriptors: College Admission, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Program Implementation
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Fabio Galli – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
Literature inclusion and exclusion (E/I) criteria are a fundamental selection methodology in different applications. Mainly, the E/I criteria are identified and chosen with respect to the question for which the manuscript itself is produced, thus allowing the selection of the literature. This procedure is not always related to the economic…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Open Educational Resources, Criteria, Economic Factors
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Aaron Wolf – Educational Theory, 2025
Much has been written about how to improve the fairness of AI tools for decision-making but less has been said about how to approach this new field from the perspective of philosophy of education. My goal in this paper is to bring together criteria from the general algorithmic fairness literature with prominent values of justice defended by…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Philosophy
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Chi Kit Jacky Ng; Lok Yin Joyce Kwan; Wai Chan – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
In the past decade, moderated mediation analysis has been extensively and increasingly employed in social and behavioral sciences. With its widespread use, it is particularly important to ensure the moderated mediation analysis will not bring spurious results. Spurious effects have been studied in both mediation and moderation analysis, but this…
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Predictor Variables
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Andreas Halman; Alicia Oshlack – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
A systematic review is a type of literature review that aims to collect and analyse all available evidence from the literature on a particular topic. The process of screening and identifying eligible articles from the vast amounts of literature is a time-consuming task. Specialised software has been developed to aid in the screening process and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Medical Research, Computer Software, Users (Information)
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Özge Pala Jennifer L. Eury; Jeanette K. Miller; Vilmos F. Misangyi – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
We describe the development and implementation of a holistic annual review process for nontenure-line faculty in the management department at a large, research university. We also discuss the department's evolution from solely utilizing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) to a broader array of review criteria, developed by the department's…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Research Universities
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Kerrin von Engelhardt – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This paper describes the Berlin "Abitur" examination in the twentieth century and its written documentation in files. By the late nineteenth century, the "Abitur" examination was fully established in Prussia and with it a graduation certificate that was obligatory for university entrance. Thus, the "Abitur"…
Descriptors: Educational History, Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students, Student Records
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Rola Ajjawi; Joanna Tai; Mollie Dollinger; Phillip Dawson; David Boud; Margaret Bearman – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
For over 30 years, the notion of authentic assessment in higher education has been adopted in academic practice, but it has managed to escape substantial critique. Although there have been multiple definitions and operationalisations of authentic assessment, current practice tends to foreground mimicking of work tasks. Authenticity cannot be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Authentic Learning, Student Evaluation
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