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Alturki, Raad A. – Informatics in Education, 2016
Students' performances in introductory programming courses show large variation across students. There may be many reasons for these variations, such as methods of teaching, teacher competence in the subject, students' coding backgrounds and abilities, students' self-discipline, the teaching environment, and the resources available to students,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Student Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
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Shaibah, Hassan Sami; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2013
Traditionally, an anatomy practical examination is conducted using a free response format (FRF). However, this format is resource-intensive, as it requires a relatively large time investment from anatomy course faculty in preparation and grading. Thus, several interventions have been reported where the response format was changed to a selected…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Anatomy, Medical Education, Test Validity
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Al-Twaijry, Abdulrahman Ali – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
The author's purpose was to identify potential factors possibly affecting student performance in three sequential management-accounting courses: Managerial Accounting (MA), Cost Accounting (CA), and Advanced Managerial Accounting (AMA) within the Saudi Arabian context. The sample, which was used to test the developed hypotheses, included 312…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Undergraduate Students, Performance Factors
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Khalaf, Abdulkhalig S. S.; Hanna, Gerald S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1992
The impact of frequency of classroom testing on achievement was studied for nearly 2,000 tenth grade male biology students in Saudi Arabia tested monthly or semimonthly. Students tested more often outperformed others on end-of-semester and delayed recall (three months) tests. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Testing