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Pérez, Jorge; Vizcarro, Carmen; García, Javier; Bermúdez, Aurelio; Cobos, Ruth – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
In the context of higher education, a competence may be understood as the combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and abilities that underpin effective and/or superior performance in a professional area. The aim of the work reported here was to design a set of procedures to assess a transferable competence, i.e., problem solving, that…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Computer Science Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Competency Based Education
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Corley, James Earl; Massie, F. Stanford, Jr.; Medrano, Martha; Estrada, Carlos A. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Cultural competent care is the ability to deliver effective medical care to people from different cultures. The lack of methodological rigor and paucity of psychometric properties information of the instruments limits the generalizability of cultural competency educational interventions. We examined cultural attitudes of first year medical…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Health Behavior, Medical Students
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Arslan, Rumiye; Nalinci, Gülbin Zeren – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
The aim of this study is to develop a scale determining the visual literacy levels of university students. After reviewing the relevant literature a 75 item draft scale was prepared. The scale was applied to 3rd and 4th year students of Education Faculty of Amasya University. Non-functional items have been excluded from the scale as a result of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Visual Literacy, Test Construction, College Students
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Taskinen, Päivi H.; Steimel, Jochen; Gräfe, Linda; Engell, Sebastian; Frey, Andreas – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
This study examined students' competencies in engineering education at the university level. First, we developed a competency model in one specific field of engineering: process dynamics and control. Then, the theoretical model was used as a frame to construct test items to measure students' competencies comprehensively. In the empirical…
Descriptors: Models, Engineering Education, Test Items, Outcome Measures
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Teo, Timothy; Kabakçi Yurdakul, Isil; Ursavas, Ömer Faruk – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This study aims to explore the digital natives among a sample of pre-service teachers and in the process, examine the validity of a Turkish adaptation of the digital native assessment scale (DNAS) [Teo, T., & Fan, X. (2013). "Coefficient alpha and beyond: Issues and alternatives for educational research." "The Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies, Program Validation
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Groß Ophoff, Jana; Schladitz, Sandra; Leuders, Juliane; Leuders, Timo; Wirtz, Markus A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
The ability to purposefully access, reflect, and use evidence from educational research (Educational Research Literacy) is expected of future professionals in educational practice. Based on the presented conceptual framework, a test instrument was developed to assess the different competency aspects: Information Literacy, Statistical Literacy, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Literacy, Educational Development