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Bronwen Cowie – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
Assessment makes visible what we value and reciprocally what is assessed tends to become what is taken to be of value. Building on this, it can be argued that assessment does more than measure what is present rather it 'makes up' people. This piece offers a reflective commentary some of the insights to be gained from the Research Analysis and…
Descriptors: National Standards, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
College Board, 2023
Over the past several years, content experts, psychometricians, and researchers have been hard at work developing, refining, and studying the digital SAT. The work is grounded in foundational best practices and advances in measurement and assessment design, with fairness for students informing all of the work done. This paper shares learnings from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Best Practices
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Nelson, C. Leigh; Fife, Eric M. – Communication Teacher, 2013
Students tend to believe that RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is an unfailingly valid measure of teaching effectiveness, and in fact viewing that site prior to taking a course can have a direct influence on their future evaluations of faculty. The authors describe an activity whose objective is to have students analyze different types of validity using…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Content Validity
Lamb, Lindsay M. – Online Submission, 2017
This research brief highlights findings from the technical report (published separately). Student-level analyses were conducted with the SEL Skills Survey and the Student Climate Survey to determine if a single measure of students' SEL skill acquisition and perceptions of school climate is possible. [For the Technical Report, see ED629195.]
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Skill Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wise, Vicki L.; Barham, Mary Ann – About Campus, 2012
The August 16, 2011, "Chronicle of Higher Education" article "Want Data? Ask Students. Again and Again" by Sara Lipka posits that in higher education there is a culture of oversurveying students and too often relying on surveys as the main, or only, way of assessing the impact of programs and services on student satisfaction and learning. Because…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Research Methodology, Test Validity, Response Style (Tests)
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Zandvliet, David B. – Learning Environments Research, 2012
Learning environment studies acknowledge that learning takes place within the social realm and that social conditions contribute to the quality of both learning and experience. This can be said to be especially true for environmental learning programs. To access information about students' perceptions of their learning environment, a robust…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Social Environment, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
No one has a bigger stake in teaching effectiveness than students. Nor are there any better experts on how teaching is experienced by its intended beneficiaries. Only recently have many policymakers and practitioners come to recognize that--when asked the right questions, in the right ways--students can be an important source of information on the…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Test Validity
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Kember, David; Leung, Doris Y. P. – Learning Environments Research, 2009
There are few available instruments that assess students' perceptions of university teaching and learning environments and can be used to provide diagnostic feedback, at the degree or program level, on the quality of the environment. This article describes the development, testing and application, for quality assurance purposes, of a suitable…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Quality Control
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Reardon, Robert F.; Traverse, Maria A.; Feakes, Debra A.; Gibbs, Karen A.; Rohde, Rodney E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
The primary goals of this project were to develop a reliable instrument to measure the chemistry course perceptions (CCP) of undergraduate chemistry students and to determine the predictors of CCP of undergraduate students as they enter their first college chemistry class. In a pilot study, 250 undergraduate students were solicited with 57…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Chemistry, Measures (Individuals)
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Mainhard, Tim; van der Rijst, Roeland; van Tartwijk, Jan; Wubbels, Theo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
The supervisor-doctoral student interpersonal relationship is important for the success of a PhD-project. Therefore, information about doctoral students' perceptions of their relationship with their supervisor can be useful for providing detailed feedback to supervisors aiming at improving the quality of their supervision. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Govaerts, Sophie; Gregoire, Jacques – International Journal of Testing, 2008
This article describes the development and two studies on the construct validity of the Academic Emotions Scale (AES). The AES is a French self-report questionnaire assessing six emotions in the context of school learning: enjoyment, hope, pride, anxiety, shame and frustration. Its construct validity was studied through exploratory and…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Bauer, Christopher F. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
The development of a 20-item semantic differential assessment instrument for measuring student attitudes toward the subject of chemistry is described (Attitude toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory-ASCI). Instrument subscales and survey items pertain to interest and utility, anxiety, intellectual accessibility, emotional satisfaction, and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Semantics, Chemistry
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Davidson, William B.; Beck, Hall P. – NACADA Journal, 2006
The "Survey of Academic Orientations" ("SAO") measures six orientations in college students believed to represent desirable or undesirable perspectives. Previous research established the connections of "SAO" orientations with grades and persistence. This study shows the extended utility of the "SAO" as an early warning indicator, enabling advisors…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, College Students, Correlation, High Risk Students
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Wesp, Richard; Eshun, Sussie – Teaching of Psychology, 2005
We describe a simple classroom activity that demonstrated the process of assessing predictive validity. We assessed changes in student understanding of the process, confidence in psychological testing, and enjoyment in participating in the exercise. Students who completed the activity performed better on a test question about validity and reported…
Descriptors: Psychology, Predictive Validity, Psychological Testing, Test Validity
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
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