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Kathryn Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Traditional, standardized instruction and assessment practices are insufficient to promote the development of skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication, which have been deemed necessary for post-secondary success (Darling-Hammond & Adamson, 2013; Milner, 2018; Rickles et al., 2019). They also serve to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Skill Development
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Amrane-Cooper, Linda; Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; Tait, Alan – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2023
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic the higher education sector, in the United Kingdom and internationally, transitioned to online assessment, at a speed and scale which might have been unimaginable under normal circumstances. The priority in the sector was to ensure that fundamental principles of assessment, including integrity, were…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Change, Integrity
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Adie, Lenore; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2018
The most recent review of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in Australia titled Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers (Craven et al. 2014) heralded the introduction of Teacher Performance Assessments (TPAs) as summative assessments of graduate profession 'readiness'. The conceptualization, research-informed design and implementation of authentic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers
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Puertas, Eloi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2022
During the past COVID pandemic crisis, teachers of any level must adapt their teaching methodologies to an online learning environment. One of the fears most aspects was the course assessment. Nonetheless, a lot of teachers were attracted to using new tools, that previously exists on their online platforms. In Universitat de Barcelona learning was…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Dabae; Huh, Yeol; Lin, Chun-Yi; Reigeluth, Charles Morgan – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2022
Personalized learning (PL) has been internationally promoted as a future direction of educational reform efforts. While there is growing evidence of PL enhancing learning outcomes, teachers reported having difficulty envisioning PL in practice. This national survey study investigated how PL is practiced in K-12 learner-centered schools in the U.S.…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Individualized Instruction, Career Choice, Educational Change
Krachman, Sara Bartolino; LaRocca, Robert; Gabrieli, Christopher – Educational Leadership, 2018
In addition to excelling in subjects such as science, math, arts, and social studies, students must also develop skills like resiliency, adaptability, and collaboration in order to truly succeed in the world. But how do schools effectively measure those skills when they so often rely on standardized assessments? This article provides a thorough…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Social Development, Emotional Development
Schneider, Jack; Feldman, Joe; French, Dan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Relying on teachers' assessments for the information currently provided by standardized test scores would save instructional time, better capture the true abilities of diverse students, and reduce the problem of teaching to the test. A California high school is implementing standards-based reporting, ensuring that teacher-issued grades function as…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, Alternative Assessment, Educational Practices
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Choi, Jinyoung – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017
This study explores how teachers implemented an assessment reform in South Korea, with an analysis of different aspects of the reform. Using a mixed method design, this study reveals that the relation between policy and practice depends upon the nature of the changes that reform policies propose. Teachers' implementation varies in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Educational Change
Jaquith, Ann; Chavez, Rosa – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2020
Given the common problem of incoherence in district reform efforts, this qualitative study sought to understand what conditions enable (and/or constrain) the efforts of Technical Assistance Organizations (TAOs) to align their products and services with each other and with the specific goals of a district. This paper explores the complexity of TAOs…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Technical Assistance, School Districts, Partnerships in Education
Pecheone, Raymond – Jobs for the Future, 2018
Emboldened by the provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act, state and local education leaders are increasingly interested in redesigning their systems of assessment to further align with college and career readiness and to support meaningful learning for all students. This paper presents stories from three states undertaking this work:…
Descriptors: State Government, Local Government, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Pecheone, Raymond – Jobs for the Future, 2018
Emboldened by the provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act, state and local education leaders are increasingly interested in redesigning their systems of assessment to further align with college and career readiness and to support meaningful learning for all students. This paper presents stories from three states undertaking this work:…
Descriptors: State Government, Local Government, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
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Gulikers, Judith T. M.; Runhaar, Piety; Mulder, Martin – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
This contribution shows an example of how an assessment innovation can serve as a flywheel for changing teaching and learning. This article first explains the development of an authentic, competence-based performance assessment in pre-vocational secondary education (pre-VET). Using these assessments in "pre"-VET, that is preparatory to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Innovation, Educational Change, Test Construction
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Fenwick, Lisl – Curriculum Journal, 2017
Governments in Australia claim that standards-based reforms to schooling will result in greater use of assessment for and as learning. This study analyses the assessment practices that evolved within the planned curricula for senior secondary schooling in the Northern Territory of Australia during standards-based reforms. Case-study methodology…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Standards, Educational Practices, Educational Change
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Timmer, Jennifer D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2018
Over the past decade, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) has been documenting what colleges and universities are doing to gather evidence about student learning and helping institutions to productively use assessment data to strengthen undergraduate education. NILOA also has been monitoring how institutions communicate…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
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Paugh, Patricia; Wendell, Kristen Bethke; Power, Christine; Gilbert, Michael – Teaching Education, 2018
This three year qualitative study of a university pilot of the edTPA, a performance assessment for preservice teachers, questioned candidates' learning at the nexus of claims that the edTPA serves a dual role as both a formative assessment for candidates' ongoing learning as well as a summative assessment of their readiness to teach. The analysis…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Qualitative Research, Performance Based Assessment
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