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Svihla, Vanessa; Chen, Yan; Kang, Sung – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: Engineering programs have increasingly incorporated design challenges into courses. These design challenges vary in the degree to which they present complex, ill-structured, and relevant problems, and therefore may vary in the degree to which they support students to learn to frame design problems. Purpose/Hypothesis: We characterized…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Design, Problem Solving
Dan Connolly; Lliam Dickinson; Luke Hellewell – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2023
This paper explores how authentic assessment can be implemented to enhance opportunities to develop employability skills through problem-solving tasks. Based on the eight key tenets of authentic assessment (Ashford-Rowe, Herrington and Brown, 2014), this paper presents formative and summative assessment case studies which were created in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Performance Based Assessment
Kleemola, Katri; Hyytinen, Heidi; Toom, Auli – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Critical thinking is a combination of complex cognitive skills. It is important for the successful acquisition of disciplinary skills in higher education and thus, it is a valuable competency for a new student. The complex nature of critical thinking leads to challenges for its assessment even in performance assessments such as CLA + International…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, College Freshmen
Georgy Petrov – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2025
This case study explores the practical application of project-based learning (PjBL) within a first-year business management module designed to address the unique challenges faced by widening participation students. It examines how embedding employability skills such as problem-solving, communication, teamwork and critical thinking directly into…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Skills, Business Education, Student Needs
Yeboah Adjei; Valentina Osei-Himah; Prince Duku; Wilson Nketia Siaw – Pedagogical Research, 2023
A quasi-experimental research design was conducted to investigate the impact of performance-based assessment (PBA) on pre-service teachers' (PSTs) self-efficacy and academic achievement in general physics at Atebubu College of Education. The study was conducted on 144 primary education students in the second year who were assigned into…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Claudia Lizette Garay-Rondero; Alvaro Castillo-Paz; Carlos Gijón-Rivera; Gerardo Domínguez-Ramírez; Conrado Rosales-Torres; Alberto Oliart-Ros – Cogent Education, 2024
Higher Education faces challenges in providing learning experiences and cultivating competencies in our modern environment. Academic discourse centres on tutoring automation, a complicated educational dilemma in the age of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Establishing a structured technique for real competency…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Undergraduate Students
Suwimon Kritkharuehart; Uncharee Vimolsilp; Pimchanok Photipussa – Cogent Education, 2024
Competency-based assessment plays an important role in the development of learners' education as it enables them to demonstrate their expertise and readiness for professional life. The competencies of 'KRU RAK THIN' scholarship recipients in remote and underprivileged areas reflect the learning outcomes that teacher education institutions should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Villarroel, Verónica; Bruna, Daniela; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Bustos, Claudio – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This case study aimed to change the construction of teachers' written tests so that items were designed to assess competencies in an authentic and challenging way. A small group of five psychology teachers participated in 10 sessions of an authentic assessment faculty-training program, to learn to assess problem-solving competencies for situations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Made Tests, Performance Based Assessment
Merrett, Craig G. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2023
Students should be exposed to open-ended, complex design challenges during their courses to better prepare the students for the design challenges that they will encounter during their careers. This preparation may be achieved by combining flipped classroom instruction, case based learning in an active classroom, and authentic assessments. Between…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Classroom Techniques, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Introductory Courses
Marzieh Souzandehfar – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
This study represents the inaugural attempt at assessing the authenticity of the tasks encompassed in the IELTS Speaking Module. The evaluation is conducted from the vantage points of applied linguistics and general education, and serves to enhance comprehension of authenticity and authentic assessment. In order to achieve this objective, an…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Applied Linguistics
Monica Ward; Fiona O'Riordan; Danielle Logan-Fleming; Dervila Cooke; Tara Concannon-Gibney; Marina Efthymiou; Niamh Watkins – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Assessment is a central feature of teaching and learning. It is both complex and challenging in ordinary times, and these aspects are magnified in an online learning environment. Given its central role, it is crucial that its design and purpose is rigorous and robust. This paper presents justification for using interactive oral assessment as an…
Descriptors: Verbal Tests, Oral Language, Experiential Learning, Case Studies
Fukumine, Eri; Kennison, Shelia M. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
The present research investigated analogical transfer during problem solving by bilinguals. In a study with 50 Spanish-English bilinguals, participants solved a target problem whose solution was similar to that of a preceding source problem. The source problem was always presented in the 2nd language; the target problem was always presented in the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Problem Solving, Spanish, English
Wu, I-Chen; Pease, Randal; Maker, C. June – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2019
This investigation was to explore perceptions of students who participated in the Cultivating Diverse Talents in STEM project in an R1 university through (a) university-based summer internship program, (b) subsequent school-year research internships, and (c) successive summer workshops or internships. Thirteen high school juniors from diverse…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Special Programs, Talent Development, STEM Education
Fabby, Carol; Koenig, Kathleen – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
Recent research suggests students with more formal reasoning patterns are more proficient learners. However, little research has been done to establish a relationship between scientific reasoning and problem solving abilities by novices. In this exploratory study, we compared scientific reasoning abilities of students enrolled in a college level…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts
Widiana, I. Wayan; Jampel, I. Nyoman – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2016
This study aimed to find out the effect of learning model and form of assessment toward inferential statistical achievement after controlling numeric thinking skills. This study was quasi experimental study with 130 students as the sample. The data analysis used ANCOVA. After controlling numeric thinking skills, the result of this study show that:…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Numbers, Mathematics Achievement, Statistics