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Using the ePortfolio to Complement Standardized Testing in a Healthcare Professional Program: Better Education or More Busy Work?
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Chan, Clarence – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2012
This article evaluates the full-scale integration of the ePortfolio into a healthcare professional program in an open admissions community college in the United States. The Physical Therapist Assistant program in question struggles to balance the dynamic tension between preparing students for a summative multiple-choice licensing examination and…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Standardized Tests, Allied Health Occupations Education
What We Can Learn from Coursework Patterns About Improving the Undergraduate Curriculum.
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Ratcliff, James L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1992
The Coursework Cluster Analysis Model is offered for linking college student assessment to curricular reform. The model determines the extent of student improvement in general learned abilities during undergraduate studies as measured by the relationship between pre- and postcollege standardized test scores, and then correlates coursework patterns…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Curriculum, College Entrance Examinations, College Instruction
Exploring Curricular Implications of Evaluation Results in Higher Education.
Rogers, Julia S.; And Others – 1989
A formative evaluation of curricular effectiveness of the General Education (GE) Program at the University of Montevallo, an Alabama state-supported liberal arts institution, is described. The GE Program is divided into 11 core areas. The American College Testing Program's College Outcomes Measures Program (COMP) objective test--a test of general…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Students, Core Curriculum