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Marjahan Begum; Pontus Haglund; Ari Korhonen; Violetta Lonati; Mattia Monga; Filip Strömbäck; Artturi Tilanterä – Informatics in Education, 2024
There can be many reasons why students fail to answer correctly to summative tests in advanced computer science courses: often the cause is a lack of prerequisites or misconceptions about topics presented in previous courses. One of the ITiCSE 2020 working groups investigated the possibility of designing assessments suitable for differentiating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Prerequisites, Computer Science Education
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Pereira, Diana; Niklasson, Laila; Flores, Maria Assunção – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper aims at investigating students' perceptions about assessment, especially the ways in which it is put into practice. Data were collected through questionnaires in different programmes in Portugal and Sweden. In total, 173 students from Portugal and 72 from Sweden participated in the study. Findings showed that students had similar ideas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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Lindgren, Lena; Hanberger, Anders; Lundström, Ulf – Education Inquiry, 2016
Evaluation systems of various types are an integral part of a country's education policy space, within which they are supposed to have the basic functions of enhancing accountability and supporting school development. Here we argue that in a crowded policy space evaluation systems may interfere with each other in a way that can have unintended…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Accountability, Evaluation Methods, School Effectiveness