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Flores, Maria Assunção; Veiga Simão, Ana Margarida; Barros, Alexandra; Pereira, Diana – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper draws upon a broader piece of research aimed at investigating assessment in higher education. It focuses upon the perceptions of undergraduates about issues of effectiveness, fairness and feedback, particularly in regard to the so-called learner-centred methods. In total, 378 undergraduate students participated in the study at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Undergraduate Students
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Karl, Andrew T.; Yang, Yan; Lohr, Sharon L. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Value-added models have been widely used to assess the contributions of individual teachers and schools to students' academic growth based on longitudinal student achievement outcomes. There is concern, however, that ignoring the presence of missing values, which are common in longitudinal studies, can bias teachers' value-added scores.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Osipian, Ararat L. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper focuses on the systematic investigation of the influence of the quasi-experimental projects on possible changes in inequality in access to higher education in Russia. While intuition points toward a positive effect of introduction of the standardized tests and educational vouchers on the decrease in inequality in access to higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Evaluation Methods, Standardized Tests