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Direct linkZandvliet, David B.; Stanton, Alisa; Dhaliwal, Rosie – Innovative Higher Education, 2019
In this article we describe the "Learning Environments and Well-Being Research Project," a collaborative initiative between a research institute and a health promotion unit at a leading Canadian university. The purposes of this project are, first, to conduct research about how classroom environments within higher education settings can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Test Validity, Student Surveys
Neuss, Deirdre; Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth M.; Olds, Janet; Tang, Ken; Whittingham, JoAnne; McSweeney, Erin; Rabjohn, Kelley; Somerville, Rosemary; Steacie, Pamela; Lyons, John S.; Schramm, David – Volta Review, 2018
As children are receiving cochlear implants at younger ages, benchmarks in speech, language, and auditory development can assist auditory-verbal therapists in setting expectation levels. Therapists can then counsel parents who often inquire how their children are progressing compared to peers with the same amount of listening experience. This…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Listening Skills, Speech Skills, Language Skills
Download full textBrijmohan, Amanda; Khan, Gulam A.; Orpwood, Graham; Brown, Emily Sandford; Childs, Ruth A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2018
Developing a new assessment requires the expertise of both content experts and assessment specialists. Using the example of an assessment developed for Ontario's Colleges Mathematics Assessment Program (CMAP), this article (1) describes the decisions that must be made in developing a new assessment, (2) explores the complementary contributions of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, College Students
Wise, Alyssa Friend; Vytasek, Jovita Maria; Hausknecht, Simone; Zhao, Yuting – Online Learning, 2016
This paper addresses a relatively unexplored area in the field of learning analytics: how analytics are taken up and used as part of teaching and learning processes. Initial steps are taken towards developing design knowledge for this "middle space," with a focus on students as analytics users. First, a core set of challenges for…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Teaching Methods
Wolforth, Joan – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2012
This paper discusses issues regarding the validity and reliability of psychoeducational assessments provided to Disability Services Offices at Canadian Universities. Several vignettes illustrate some current issues and the potential consequences when university students are given less than thorough disability evaluations and ascribed diagnoses.…
Descriptors: Reliability, Validity, Learning Disabilities, College Students
Rogers, W. Todd – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
Principals and teachers do not use large-scale assessment results because the lack of distinct and reliable subtests prevents identifying strengths and weaknesses of students and instruction, the results arrive too late to be used, and principals and teachers need assistance to use the results to improve instruction so as to improve student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Testing, Multidimensional Scaling, Evaluation Utilization
Clarke, Anthony; Collins, John; Triggs, Valerie; Nielsen, Wendy; Augustine, Ann; Coulter, Dianne; Cunningham, Joni; Grigoriadis, Tina; Hardman, Stephanie; Hunter, Lee; Kinegal, Jane; Li, Bianca; Mah, Jeff; Mastin, Karen; Partridge, David; Pawer, Leonard; Rasoda,Sandy; Salbuvik, Kathleen; Ward, Mitch; White, Janet; Weil, Frederick – Teaching Education, 2012
We report on the origins, development and refinement of an online inventory to help cooperating teachers focus on selected dimensions of their practice. The Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) helps quantify important features of both the motivating and challenging aspects of mentoring student teachers and provides results to respondents in a…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Practicum Supervision, Mentors, Student Teachers
Gauthier, N. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
Four different families of linear recurrences are derived for Catalan numbers. The derivations rest on John Riordan's 1973 generalization of Catalan numbers to a set of polynomials. Elementary differential and integral calculus techniques are used and the results should be of interest to teachers and students of introductory courses in calculus…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Numbers, Number Concepts, Calculus
Andrews, Jac J. W.; Violato, Claudio – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
In this article we provide an overview of the nature and scope of multisource feedback (MSF) and provide empirical evidence of its reliability, validity, and feasibility in one of the health professions. The overall internal consistency reliability (Cronbach alpha) of MSF instruments is generally greater than 0.96 for self and informants such as…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Measures (Individuals), Feedback (Response), Reliability
Koch, Martha J.; DeLuca, Christopher – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
In this article we rethink validation within the complex contexts of high-stakes assessment. We begin by considering the utility of existing models for validation and argue that these models tend to overlook some of the complexities inherent to assessment use, including the multiple interpretations of assessment purposes and the potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Use, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
Wright, Annette – 1980
This paper provides educators with a general perspective on computer literacy and an in-depth examination of the Computer Literacy Awareness Assessment conducted by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). Addressing computer literacy as part of the ongoing use of computers in a classroom setting is identified as the most reasonable…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Foreign Countries, Microcomputers
Richards, Griff; Donkers, Peter; Hatala, Marek; Dufresne, Aude – Interactive Learning Environments, 2007
Campus Canada promotes lifelong learning through the articulation of workplace and other experiential learning for academic credit. This paper describes the recent re-development of the Record of Learning (RoL) component of the Campus Canada's e-Portfolio System. In matching the academic members' desires for provision of secure e-transcripts with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Validity, Competence, Experiential Learning
Maguire, Thomas O.; And Others – 1983
A study was commissioned to develop and validate a test to assess the attitudes of Alberta students towards the world of work. A revised instrument was created that used 75 items grouped into 15 scales, of five items each, measuring perceptions about available opportunities. During the validation field trial the instrument was administered to 467…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRothman, Arthur I. – Academic Medicine, 1990
Comparisons are made of the results of administering the same Objective Structured Clinical Examination-type clinical skills tests to two cohorts of the Ontario Pre-Internship Program. A description is provided of entry-exit comparisons between the test results of the two cohorts. (GLR)
Descriptors: Foreign Medical Graduates, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Medical Education
Haelewyck, Marie-Claire; Bara, Melanie; Lachapelle, Yves – Evaluation Review, 2005
Taking an active part and responsibilities in one's own life is not always easy, particularly at adolescence, which is a very important period in which people progressively find their identity and life project. This article describes the social validation analyses of a Belgian self-determination curriculum that was adapted from a French-Canadian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Self Determination, Mental Retardation, Foreign Countries
