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Nina Zipser; Lisa Mincieli – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
This paper presents a framework for utilizing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) in faculty evaluations. Recognizing the ongoing debate about the validity of SET as a measure of teaching effectiveness, the authors agree with scholars who propose viewing SET as a tool for gauging 'student perceptions of learning'. They present a method that…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Evaluation Criteria
Achieve, Inc., 2014
Across the country, educators, parents and students are saying that there is too much testing in our schools and that testing is taking valuable time away from teaching and learning. These concerns are legitimate and merit attention. School district officials have the opportunity to respond to concerns about over-testing by leading a conversation…
Descriptors: School Districts, Testing, Evaluation Methods, Planning
Sessoms, John; Henson, Robert A. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2018
Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) classify examinees based on the skills they have mastered given their test performance. This classification enables targeted feedback that can inform remedial instruction. Unfortunately, applications of DCMs have been criticized (e.g., no validity support). Generally, these evaluations have been brief and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Classification, Models, Criticism
Guney, Nail – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The aim of this study is to determine the rate of teachers' use of assessment and evaluation tools given in 2005 curriculum of Turkish language teaching. To this end; we presented a list of assessment and evaluation tools on the basis of random sampling to 216 teachers of Turkish who work in Ordu, Samsun, Ankara, Trabzon and Istanbul provinces.…
Descriptors: Preferences, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Hreinsdottir, Anna Magnea; Davidsdottir, Sigurlina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
In this study, the merit of using deliberative democratic evaluations is studied in light of ten questions asked by House and Howe, which defined the approach and raise issues of interests, representation, and choice of stakeholders, power balances and procedures for controlling them, participation, reflection and deliberation. Suggestions by…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Stakeholders, Democracy, Evaluation Methods
Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J. – Deafness and Education International, 2014
This study investigated the Individual Learning Plans of eighty-eight students who were deaf and hard of hearing attending facilities and schools for the deaf in Victoria Australia. The students' assessment and planning portfolios were scrutinised for evidence of formal and informal assessment used to generate goals for the Individual Learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Special Education
Becker, William E.; Bosshardt, William; Watts, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 2012
Based on results from a 1999 national survey, William Becker and Michael Watts found that student evaluations of teaching were by far the most widely used, and often the only method used by economics departments, to evaluate teaching in undergraduate economics courses. To investigate whether departments of economics have moved beyond the use of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Economics Education, Undergraduate Study, National Surveys
Ohia, Uche O. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2011
This paper describes a model proven to be effective for assessing and documenting evidence of student learning outcomes. Specifically, it will share a model, F.A.M.O.U.S. Copyright ©2008, which is an acronym exemplifying six effective steps for complying with institutional accountability and eternal assessment requirements proscribed by the…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Models
Chuenchom, Sutthinan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Blogs serve multiple purposes, resulting in several types of blogs that vary greatly in terms of quality and content. It is important to evaluate the quality of blogs, which requires appropriate evaluation criteria. Unfortunately, there are minimal studies on framework and the specific criteria and indicators for evaluating the quality of blogs.…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Use Studies, User Satisfaction (Information)
Perie, Marianne; Marion, Scott; Gong, Brian – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Local assessment systems are being marketed as formative, benchmark, predictive, and a host of other terms. Many so-called formative assessments are not at all similar to the types of assessments and strategies studied by Black and Wiliam (1998) but instead are interim assessments. In this article, we clarify the definition and uses of interim…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation
Bresciani, Marilee J.; Gardner, Megan Moore; Hickmott, Jessica – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
This practical guide to outcomes-based assessment in student affairs is designed to help readers meet the growing demand for accountability and for demonstrating student learning. The authors offer a framework for implementing the assessment of student learning and development and pragmatic advice on the strategies most appropriate for the…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Student Personnel Services, Evaluation Methods, Outcome Measures
Nichols, Paul D.; Meyers, Jason L.; Burling, Kelly S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Assessments labeled as formative have been offered as a means to improve student achievement. But labels can be a powerful way to miscommunicate. For an assessment use to be appropriately labeled "formative," both empirical evidence and reasoned arguments must be offered to support the claim that improvements in student achievement can be linked…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tutoring, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Rosenkvist, Morten A. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning using student test results in OECD countries. Initially the report provides an overview of how student test results are reported in OECD countries and how stakeholders in these countries use and perceive of the results. The report then reviews the literature relating to using student test…
Descriptors: Test Results, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Literature Reviews
Shepard, Lorrie A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
In many school districts, the pressure to raise test scores has created overnight celebrity status for formative assessment. Its powers to raise student achievement have been touted, however, without attending to the research on which these claims were based. Sociocultural learning theory provides theoretical grounding for understanding how…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Validity, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods

Talmage, Harriet – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
This article asks and answers the following three questions concerning curriculum evaluation: (1) why evaluate curricula; (2) if curriculum evaluation can be justified, then what are useful curriculum evaluation questions; and (3) given the constraints of time, money, and expertise, how can useful curriculum evaluation be conducted? (DCS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods