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van Dorresteijn, Chevy; Kan, Kees-Jan; Smits, Niels – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
When higher education students are assessed multiple times, teachers need to consider how these assessments can be combined into a single pass or fail decision. A common question that arises is whether students should be allowed to take a resit. Previous research has found little to no clear learning benefits of resits and therefore suggested they…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Pretests Posttests, Regression (Statistics)
Doolen, Jessica – ProQuest LLC, 2012
High fidelity simulation has become a widespread and costly learning strategy in nursing education because it can fill the gap left by a shortage of clinical sites. In addition, high fidelity simulation is an active learning strategy that is thought to increase higher order thinking such as clinical reasoning and judgment skills in nursing…
Descriptors: Simulation, Nursing Education, Simulated Environment, Psychometrics
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Anderson, Richard B.; Doherty, Michael E.; Friedrich, Jeff C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
In 4 studies, the authors examined the hypothesis that the structure of the informational environment makes small samples more informative than large ones for drawing inferences about population correlations. The specific purpose of the studies was to test predictions arising from the signal detection simulations of R. B. Anderson, M. E. Doherty,…
Descriptors: Simulation, Statistical Analysis, Inferences, Population Trends
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Houts, Lisa M.; Taylor, James C. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2008
The production and operations management class offered at California State University, Fresno underwent a transformation from being a four-unit, face-to-face course to a hybrid course. This hybrid course, which is required for all students in the Craig School of Business, includes two units of face-to-face instruction each week, with some coverage…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, College Students, Blended Learning