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Folake Modupe Adelabu; Jogymol Kalariparampil Alex – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
Problem-solving and enquiry-based learning are integral in the Mathematics and Science curriculum in South Africa through online-based assessment. Online assessment has rapidly gained recognition because of technology. In this paper, the authors explored the views of online baseline assessment among Senior Phase First-year Mathematics Student…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Assessment, Mathematics, Teacher Attitudes
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Brown, James Dean – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
The purpose of this article is to examine the literature on teaching statistics for useful ideas that teachers of language testing courses can draw on and incorporate into their teaching toolkits as they see fit. To those ends, the article addresses eight questions: What is known generally about teaching statistics? Why are students so anxious…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Anxiety, Coping
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Nelson, Brian C.; Erlandson, Benjamin; Denham, Andre – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In this paper, we take a designer's look at how the activities and data of learning and assessment can be structured in immersive virtual game environments called Massively Multi-Player Online Games (MMOG). In doing so, we examine the channels of evidence through which learning and assessment activities are derived in MMOGs, offering examples of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Data, Learning Activities, Educational Assessment
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Thomas, Michael K.; Yang, Wan-Lin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
In this article, the authors argue that educational technology is chiefly and increasingly being used as a tool for the privatization of education and the commodification of people by way of top down evaluative structures put in place by governments in collusion with neoliberal interests. This analysis began as a study that sought to illuminate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
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Hickey, Daniel T.; McWilliams, Jenna; Honeyford, Michelle A. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Traditional literacy instruction is perhaps still necessary but is certainly no longer sufficient to prepare learners for participation in the range of literacy practices that characterize an increasingly participatory culture. This article identifies discrepancies between traditional instructional practices that emphasize individual mastery of…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Media Literacy, Teaching Methods, Educational Assessment
Florian, Timothy P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Critical thinking is a skill that school systems are trying to develop in their student populations. Numerous studies have been conducted on developing critical thinking skills such as self-regulation, interpretation, and analysis. However, available data on the use of learning management systems (LMS) as a means to develop critical-thinking…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Critical Thinking, Program Implementation, Thinking Skills
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Loke, Swee-Kin; Blyth, Phil; Swan, Judith – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
While the potentials of virtual worlds to support experiential learning in medical education are well documented, assessment of student learning within these environments is relatively scarce and often incongruent. In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed for formatively assessing dispositional behaviours in scenario-based learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Experiential Learning, Medical Education
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Shepherd, Carol; Mullane, Ann Mary – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Harnessing student energy for the positive use of technology in the classroom requires significant change for many educators. Students today exhibit a one-click mentality when using computers in the classroom, and are frustrated when they are not provided with instant gratification. Gone are the reading and higher level thinking skills of the pen…
Descriptors: Toys, Learning Processes, Educational Technology, Thinking Skills
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Anthony, Jared Judd – Assessing Writing, 2009
Testing the hypotheses that reflective timed-essay prompts should elicit memories of meaningful experiences in students' undergraduate education, and that computer-mediated classroom experiences should be salient among those memories, a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods paints a richer, more complex picture than either…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Reflection
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Gray, Kathleen; Thompson, Celia; Sheard, Judithe; Clerehan, Rosemary; Hamilton, Margaret – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Students now have at their disposal a range of Web 2.0 authoring forms such as audio and video podcasting, blogging, social bookmarking, social networking, virtual world activities and wiki writing. Many university educators are interested in enabling students to demonstrate their learning by creating content in these forms. However, the design…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Integrity, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment
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Newton, Xiaoxia A.; Llosa, Lorena – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Most K-12 evaluations are designed to make inferences about how a program implemented at the classroom or school level affects student learning outcomes and such inferences inherently involve hierarchical data structure. One methodological challenge for evaluators is linking program implementation factors typically measured at the classroom or…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Program Implementation
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Corbell, Kristen A.; Osborne, Jason W.; Grable, Lisa Leonor – Computers in the Schools, 2008
The survey Performance Standards for In-service Teachers is widely used to help describe teacher skills relating to instructional technology for assessment or planning of professional development. It is based on the six constructs of the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, and though used broadly in a variety of contexts, it…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Program Effectiveness, Factor Analysis, Educational Technology
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Al-Fadhli, Salah; Khalfan, Abdulwahed – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2009
This article investigated the impact of using e-learning models' with the principles of constructivism to enhance the critical thinking skills of students in higher education institutions. The study examines the effectiveness of e-learning model in enhancing critical thinking of students at university level. This effectiveness is measured by a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Information Systems, Foreign Countries
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Ramakishnan, Sadhu Balasundaram; Ramadoss, Balakrishnan – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
Over the past several decades, a wider range of assessment strategies has gained prominence in classrooms, including complex assessment items such as individual or group projects, student journals and other creative writing tasks, graphic/artistic representations of knowledge, clinical interviews, student presentations and performances, peer- and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Web Based Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Internet
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Meyers, Noel M.; Nulty, Duncan D. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2009
In this article, we articulate five principles of curriculum design and illustrate their application in a third-year undergraduate course for environmental and ecological scientists. In this way, we provide a practical framework for others wishing to enhance their students' learning. To apply the five principles, we created a learning environment…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Alignment (Education)
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