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Corcoran, Stephanie – Contemporary School Psychology, 2022
With the iPad-mediated cognitive assessment gaining popularity with school districts and the need for alternative modes for training and instruction during this COVID-19 pandemic, school psychology training programs will need to adapt to effectively train their students to be competent in administering, scoring, an interpreting cognitive…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Professional Education, Job Skills, Cognitive Tests
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Shavelson, Richard J.; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Beck, Klaus; Schmidt, Susanne; Marino, Julian P. – International Journal of Testing, 2019
Following employers' criticisms and recent societal developments, policymakers and educators have called for students to develop a range of generic skills such as critical thinking ("twenty-first century skills"). So far, such skills have typically been assessed by student self-reports or with multiple-choice tests. An alternative…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cognitive Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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Andujar, Alberto; Cruz-Martínez, Maria Soledad – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The present investigation explores Cognitive Test Anxiety (CTA) in a high-stake oral examination, taking into consideration how face-to-face and computer-based examination formats affect test-takers' anxiety and consequently language performance. Two speaking tests -- face-to-face and computer-based -- were developed for a Spanish university's…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, High Stakes Tests, Verbal Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
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Simper, Natalie; Frank, Brian; Kaupp, Jake; Mulligan, Nerissa; Scott, Jill – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Critical thinking, problem solving and communication are fundamental elements of undergraduate education, but methods for assessing these skills across an institution are susceptible to logistical, motivational and financial issues. Queen's University conducted two research studies investigating the use of standardised tests to assess cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Undergraduate Students
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Kunina-Habenicht, Olga; Hautz, Wolf E.; Knigge, Michel; Spies, Claudia; Ahlers, Olaf – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Clinical reasoning is an essential competency in medical education. This study aimed at developing and validating a test to assess diagnostic accuracy, collected information, and diagnostic decision time in clinical reasoning. A norm-referenced computer-based test for the assessment of clinical reasoning (ASCLIRE) was developed, integrating the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Cognitive Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Flannery, Kathleen A.; Malita, Mihaela – College Teaching, 2014
We present our case study of an interdisciplinary team project for students taking either a psychology or computer science (CS) course. The project required psychology and CS students to combine their knowledge and skills to create an online cognitive task. Each interdisciplinary project team included two psychology students who conducted library…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects, Group Activities, Psychology
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Pontifex, Matthew B.; Broglio, Steven P.; Drollette, Eric S.; Scudder, Mark R.; Johnson, Chris R.; O'Connor, Phillip M.; Hillman, Charles H. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2012
We assessed the extent to which failures in sustained attention were associated with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) deficits in cognitive control among college-age young adults with and without a history of sport-related concussion. Participants completed the ImPACT computer-based assessment and a modified flanker task. Results…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Mild Disabilities, Attention