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Rosin, Triin; Vaino, Katrin; Soobard, Regina; Rannikmäe, Miia – Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to explore the influence of science teachers' beliefs on an educational assessment reform adopted in Estonia. Two existing questionnaires were adapted to develop a model to examine teachers' beliefs about teaching and assessment and administered to a sample of Estonian science teachers (N = 319). The outcomes were examined through…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
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Hidri, Sahbi – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The overriding objective of this study was to investigate secondary and university teachers' assessment conceptions in an EFL context using a four-factor ("Student Accountability", "School Accountability", "Improvement" and "Irrelevance") teachers' conceptions of assessment (TCoA) inventory (Brown, 2006).…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Remesal, Ana; Brown, Gavin T. L. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2015
This paper presents results of a study on teachers' conceptions of assessment carried out on a sample of 493 teachers of Spanish as foreign language from all over the world. At the moment of data collection, the participants were members of an international online teacher community and were teaching at different professional contexts: basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Communities of Practice
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Chen, Junjun; Cowie, Bronwen – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
This study investigated the responses of 531 preservice teachers to a "Beliefs About Assessment" questionnaire in China. The questionnaire focused on understanding the purposes, practices and principles of assessment for and of learning. Using factor analysis, an inter-correlated two-order model fitted well to the responses. This model…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Kimbel, Tyler; Clemens, Elysia V. – Professional School Counseling, 2015
The School Counseling Program Report Card--Student Version is a program evaluation tool designed to capture high school student perceptions of school counseling services. This article describes the initial instrument development process. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 305) yielded a 22-item instrument with three subscales that mirror the ASCA…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Program Development, Program Validation, Counseling Services
Hoagland, Steven R. – Online Submission, 2006
Institutional accountability for performance and quality is an evolving topic with immeasurable appeal. Data and sources are abundant, but validated measures and meaningful information are scarce. While pursuing an approach centered on construct validity, this study transforms complex data into useful information. Correlation analysis reveals…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Reputation, Consumer Education, Graduation
Brown, Edward K. – 1972
A systematic study of the composition and dispersement of Title I projects assigned to elementary schools in Philadelphia was conducted. Categorical variables were identified from four major derived variables (program density code, school aggregate fund, pupil service component, achievement-growth differential score) and four major demographic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives