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Claire Timperley; Kate Schick – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Traditional authentic assessment tasks are frequently tied to future work and enmeshed in neoliberal and capitalist visions of education. We advocate an alternative approach where authenticity signifies meaningful learning outside the confines of the classroom to promote deep learning that 'sticks'. We proffer an understanding of "assessment…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Philosophy, World Views, Instruction
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Sam Elkington; Paul Chesterton – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Studies reporting flexible assessment strategies and their impact across different modes of study remain limited with little emphasis placed on the role these arrangements play in devising authentic assessment processes. This paper synthesises recent research work depicting flexible design principles and practice strategies for how educators might…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Williamson, Aimee L.; Wang, Irene Guannan – Journal of Management Education, 2023
Course evaluation instruments (CEIs) are widespread, influential components of faculty professional development and evaluation processes. Given their importance to continuous instructional improvement and their weight in promotion, tenure, and other evaluation processes, it is critical that business schools and higher education institutions more…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Business Schools, Case Studies, Evaluation Methods
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Andrews, Tessa C.; Brickman, Peggy; Dolan, Erin L.; Lemons, Paula P. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
For decades, educators and policy makers have called for reform in higher education, yet now the urgency is palpable. The COVID-19 pandemic and heightened attention to systemic racism have highlighted the fact that outdated teaching practices can stunt student learning and trust of science, maintain systemic biases, and prevent equitable…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Koundinya, Vikram; Klink, Jenna; Widhalm, Melissa – Journal of Extension, 2017
Extension educators are increasingly using online resources in their program design and delivery. Usability testing is essential for ensuring that these resources are relevant and useful to learners. On the basis of our experiences with iteratively developing products using a testing service called UserTesting, we promote the use of fee-based…
Descriptors: Usability, Evaluation Methods, Computer Software Evaluation, Educational Resources
Saenen, Bregt; Hatch, Anna; Curry, Stephen; Proudman, Vanessa; Lakoduk, Ashley – European University Association, 2021
This report and the accompanying online repository (https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/) bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. The case studies are intended to serve as inspiration for institutions planning to become or already engaged in a complex review process, and to provide potential pathways of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Case Studies, Organizational Change, Educational Policy
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Joughin, Gordon; Dawson, Phillip; Boud, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Despite widespread recognition of the need to improve assessment in higher education, assessment tasks in individual courses are too often dominated by conventional methods. While changing assessment depends on many factors, improvements to assessment ultimately depend on the decisions and actions of individual educators. This paper considers…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Change, Evaluation, Heuristics
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Talanquer, Vicente; Bucat, Robert; Tasker, Roy; Mahaffy, Peter G. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed many aspects of our world including the way we teach chemistry. Our emergence from the pandemic provides an opportunity for deep reflection and intentional action about what we teach, and why, as well as how we facilitate student learning. Focusing on foundational postsecondary chemistry courses, we…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Resilience (Psychology)
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Berk, Ronald A. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2018
Student ratings are not leaving today or anytime soon. However, as the title of this article indicates, student ratings are not the only option to provide evidence in the evaluation of teaching. There is a broad range of alternatives to consider beyond student ratings in the delicate decision-making processes to improve teaching and determine the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Information Sources, Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Gaumer Erickson, Amy S.; Noonan, Patricia M.; Brussow, Jennifer; Supon Carter, Kayla – Professional Development in Education, 2017
High-quality, evidence-based professional development is essential to ensure that teachers obtain the knowledge, strategies and skills necessary to positively impact student learning. While the primary form of professional development, training has rarely been evaluated for quality beyond the satisfaction of those being trained. The Observation…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Training Objectives, Educational Quality, Measurement Techniques
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Fischer, Johann – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The underlying methodological approach of the CEFR is defined as being "action-oriented" and task-based (Council of Europe. 2001. "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment." Cambridge University Press: 9), although it explicitly leaves room for a variety of approaches, since the CEFR…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales, Guidelines
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Jickling, Bob – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
When considering a topic as broad as research in environmental education it seems worthwhile, at the onset, to make some basic distinctions: (1) establishing research priorities is not simply an empirical question; and (2) a much more challenging task is to more clearly understand the nature of the questions to which we seek answers. How do we go…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Research, Concept Formation, Research Needs
Cook, H. Gary; Linquanti, Robert – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2015
This report summarizes and further develops ideas discussed at a national working session held on May 23, 2014, to examine issues and options associated with initially classifying English learners (ELs). It is the third in a series of guidance papers intended to support states in large-scale assessment consortia that are expected to move toward a…
Descriptors: Classification, English Language Learners, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Ziegenfuss, Robert G.; Odhiambo, Eucabeth; Keyes, Christopher – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2014
To attain the most academic success among adolescent English Language Learners (ELL), the efforts of all the people associated with them must be combined along with multiple resources. Integration of curriculum content, instructional strategies, assessment, cultural responsiveness, and community resources are all critical components of success.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Adolescent Development, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
Howland, Jonathan – Independent School, 2014
Author Jonathan Howland writes here that he is hardly the first to suggest that much of the testing going on in the educational system today appears dumb. The tidal change that brought schools the Common Core standards is a maneuver born of an admission: educators took their eye off the ball, testing for too much of the wrong thing--thin skills…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Educational Practices
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