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Amy Overbay; Christopher W. Thurley – Writing Center Journal, 2024
As institutions cope with the difficult task of managing scarce resources to support student learning, college writing centers, like other student services, need to be able to articulate and, at times, quantify the benefits they offer the populations they serve. This study examined outcomes associated with visiting the writing center at one…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Academic Achievement
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2014
Assessing a student's ability to be successful in courses and programs is an important and necessary aspect of student success. Two major practices exist to predict a student's likelihood of succeeding in a course or program: (1) Successful completion of prerequisite or advisory courses (as documented on transcripts) and (2) the assessment for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, College Students, Student Placement
Cutumisu, Maria; Chin, Doris B.; Schwartz, Daniel L. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
We introduce an educational game-based assessment that measures the choices students make while learning. We present Posterlet, a game designed to assess students' choices to seek negative feedback and to revise, in which students learn graphical design principles while creating posters. We validate our game-based assessment approach with three…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Video Games, Decision Making, Feedback (Response)
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Johnson, Nate – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
In 2010, HCM Strategists received support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to engage academic researchers in identifying and discussing the best currently available ways to account for differences in college "inputs"--students, resources, and fixed characteristics--when evaluating postsecondary outcomes. The project, Context…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Outcome Measures, Achievement Rating