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Hardesty, Karla J.; Crew, Abigail R.; Schell, Beez L. A. – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2022
In an institution where assessment was viewed as meaningless box-checking for the purpose of accreditation, a new reflective assessment practice changed 15 faculty members' perception of assessment in a single semester. Piloted with an interdisciplinary graduation requirement for Cultural Competency, the new assessment practice became a powerful…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
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Whalen, Kate; Paez, Antonio – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
Many institutions of higher education increasingly place a focus on various forms of experiential education, including personal reflections. While much work has been done in this and related areas, the resources currently available are not sufficient to effectively guide, assess, and evaluate student learning through reflection. Guiding students…
Descriptors: College Students, Sustainability, Guidelines, Experiential Learning
Zhang, Jianxin – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2017
Improving education quality and quality assurance (QA) have become the most distinctive themes of higher education (HE) reform in the 21st century. Although student learning outcomes (SLOs) are the most direct evidence to HE quality and should be an indispensable element and the starting point of education evaluation, in most countries evaluations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance
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Buonviri, Nathan – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of music notation reinforcement on aural memory for melodies. Participants were 41 undergraduate and graduate music majors in a within-subjects design. Experimental trials tested melodic memory through a sequence of target melodies, distraction melodies, and matched and unmatched answer choices.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Reinforcement, Aural Learning
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Hagley, Eric – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
Extensive graded reading (EGR) was carried out with a cohort of 600 engineering students in a university in northern Japan. Pre-and post-surveys were conducted to discover changes in the general reading habits of students, their attitudes toward the assessment method and how goals changed over the course of study. The first survey was carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Engineering Education, Reading Instruction
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Veeck, Ann; O'Reilly, Kelley; MacMillan, Amy; Yu, Hongyan – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
Midterm student evaluations have been shown to be beneficial for providing formative feedback for course improvement. With the purpose of improving instruction in marketing courses, this research introduces and evaluates a novel form of midterm student evaluation of teaching: the online collaborative evaluation. Working in small teams, students…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), College Students
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Di Tommaso, Kathrynn – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2016
This paper presents a pilot study aiming to evaluate the effects of a non-cognitive assessment instrument which was developed and tailored for a community college in the New York City area. The instrument was pilot tested on a group of developmental students and asked a series of questions to determine the campus support services that might best…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Evaluation Methods, Pilot Projects, Community Colleges
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Galambos, Colleen; Curl, Angela L.; Woodbury, Karen – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
This article reports on the pilot delivery of an evaluation method to gauge student learning of gerontological competencies. Using a pretest and posttest design, data were collected on 46 students over 3 classes. Results indicated significant improvement in how students rated or perceived their competencies skill level between pretest and posttest…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Pilot Projects, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods
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Obaid, Rana – English Language Teaching, 2016
This small-scale mixed method research focuses on investigating the way Preparatory Year English Program (PYEP) female students in a Saudi tertiary level institution context are assessed and how they are advanced from level three (Pre-intermediate) and level four (Intermediate). A four-point agreement scale survey was conducted with fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Beckem, John M., II; Watkins, Michael – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
Higher education institutions are under significant pressure to provide affordable, sustainable approaches that will prepare their students with the skills they will need after graduation to achieve success in the 21st Century workplace. Digital Media Simulations are among the new technologies that have emerged with the promise to help…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Asynchronous Communication, Learner Engagement, Educational Technology
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Barwell, Graham; Moore, Chris; Walker, Ruth – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The model of learning best suited to the future may be one which sees learning as the process of managing the different kinds of participation an individual might have in complex social systems. Learning capability and engagement is thus dependent on the relationship between an individual identity and social systems. We report on the incorporation…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Pilot Projects, Computer Assisted Instruction, Student Evaluation
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Ferrao, Maria – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
The Bologna Declaration brought reforms into higher education that imply changes in teaching methods, didactic materials and textbooks, infrastructures and laboratories, etc. Statistics and mathematics are disciplines that traditionally have the worst success rates, particularly in non-mathematics core curricula courses. This research project,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Educational Assessment
Dziuban, Charles; Moskal, Patsy; Brophy, Jay; Shea, Peter – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2007
The authors discuss elements that potentially impact student satisfaction with asynchronous learning: the media culture, digital, personal and mobile technologies, student learning preferences, pedagogy, complexities of measurement, and the digital generation. They describe a pilot study to identify the underlying dimensions of student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
Gibbs, W. J.; And Others – 1994
Within the Mathematics of Finance classes at the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State University, lectures are developed using Asymetric's Toolbook program and are presented through a computer system. This approach was implemented because it has the potential to convey effectively concepts that are ordinarily difficult to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Methods
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Musoba, Glenda Droogsma – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2006
Evaluation can provide the assessment information for considering program change as well as be integral to the program design and pilot test of any new institutional intervention. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Evaluation, Inquiry, Program Development
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