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Direct linkHardison, Chaitra M.; Vilamovska, Anna-Marie – RAND Corporation, 2009
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a measure of how much students' critical thinking improves after attending college or university. This report illustrates how institutions can set their own standards on the CLA using a method that is appropriate for the CLA's unique characteristics. The authors examined evidence of reliability and…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Evaluation Methods, Research Reports, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedMaguire, Phil; Devereux, Barry; Costello, Fintan; Cater, Arthur – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
The competition among relations in nominals (CARIN) theory of conceptual combination (C. L. Gagne & E. J. Shoben, 1997) proposes that people interpret nominal compounds by selecting a relation from a pool of competing alternatives and that relation availability is influenced by the frequency with which relations have been previously associated…
Descriptors: Competition, Program Validation, Item Analysis, Human Relations
Feldt, Leonard S.; Kim, Seonghoon – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Researchers sometimes need a statistical test of the hypothesis that two values of Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient are equal. The situation may involve scores from two different measures administered to independent random samples or from the same measure administered to random samples from two different populations. Feldt derived a test…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Test Items, Sample Size, Scores
Shay, Suellen Butler – Harvard Educational Review, 2004
Based on her study of the assessment and validation of final year projects in two academic departments--one located in a humanities faculty and the other in an engineering faculty of a South African university--Suellen Shay argues that the assessment of complex tasks is a socially situated interpretive act. Her argument centers on three questions.…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Student Projects, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Relationship
