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Download full textBeckie Bray Rankin; Nikki Prasad – NECTFL Review, 2024
Motivating students towards language learning includes embedding meaningful themes, communicative tasks, and authentic assessments. When voice and choice are held as essential qualities of the task, students invest in the resources to make meaning and express their own thoughts, thus moving us away from traditional assessments that emphasize…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkHardiman, Mariale; Whitman, Glenn – Independent School, 2014
If you really want to see how innovative a school is, inquire about its thinking and practices regarding assessment. For the students, does the mere thought of assessment trigger stress? Do the teachers rely heavily on high-stakes, multiple-choice, Bell Curve-generating tests? Or do the students seem relaxed and engaged as teachers experiment with…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Brain, Neuropsychology, Student Evaluation
Huang, Shu-Chen – Language Testing, 2011
This study examined two types of classroom assessment events, the more closed convergent assessments (CA) versus the more open-ended divergent assessments (DA), to see if they influence learners differently in terms of motivation and learning strategies. Participants were 105 college freshmen in Taiwan with the same instructor placed under one…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Speech Communication, Self Efficacy, Performance Based Assessment
Snyder, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines the relationships between students' academic motivation, evidence of achievement as measured by assessments and the effects of feedback in mediating effort. Policy makers currently view student achievement is as synonymous with proficiency on standardized tests. Testing students as a means of determining educational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation
Hancock, Dawson R. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
This study explored the impact of performance assessment versus traditional paper-and-pencil assessment on graduate students' achievement and motivation to learn while enrolled in a 16-lesson course on program evaluation methods. Students in two sections of the course were exposed to the same content and instructional methods, with one exception:…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Program Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
