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Download full textWielicki, Tom – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
This paper reports on longitudinal study regarding integrity of testing in an online format as used by e-learning platforms. Specifically, this study explains whether online testing, which implies an open book format is compromising integrity of assessment by encouraging cheating among students. Statistical experiment designed for this study…
Descriptors: Integrity, Online Courses, Statistical Surveys, Longitudinal Studies
Canelos, James; And Others – 1985
The effects of encoding specificity were evaluated for learners: (1) in a typical classroom group learning environment, (2) receiving an audiovisual presentation on an academic subject, and (3) in a group testing environment. Encoding specificity involves the interaction between the encoding phase of memory or the learning context, the stored…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cues, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education
De Melo, Hermes Teixeria; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
This study investigated the effects of (1) verbal instruction alone vs. verbal instruction complemented by simple line drawings; (2) visual testing vs. nonvisual testing; (3) verbal cueing vs. free recall on achievement; and (4) order of testing on subsequent achievement. Interactions among type of instruction, type of testing, and order of…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Illustrations
Lamberski, Richard J. – 1982
The effect of verbal and visual (color or black/white) coding strategies in self-paced instruction and test materials in facilitating student retention on different cognitive tasks was studied. The 176 college student subjects received instruction and testing using varied combinations of color or black/white materials. Instructional materials were…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Students, Color, Higher Education
Dwyer, Francis M.; Moore, David M. – 1999
The purpose of several studies was to examine the effects that differentially coded (black and white or color) illustrations had on students who were classified as field independent, field neutral, and field dependent on tests measuring different educational objectives. The effects of visual and verbal test formats were also examined. In general,…
Descriptors: Color, Comparative Analysis, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
Dwyer, Carol A. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to determine whether different types of practice strategies are equally effective in facilitating encoding strategies and in subsequent information acquisition and retrieval by students identified as possessing high, medium, and low prior knowledge levels in a content area. Within the context of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Drills (Practice), Encoding (Psychology)
Parshall, Cynthia G.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D. – 1993
This paper studies whether examinee characteristics are systematically related to mode effect across paper and computer versions of the same instrument, using data from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) of the Educational Testing Service in its Computer-Based Testing Pilot Study of 1991. The following characteristics of 1,114 examinees were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Testing
