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Robert L. Moore; Sophia Soomin Lee; Amanda Taylor Pate; Amanda J. Wilson – Distance Education, 2025
This systematic review synthesizes 14 peer-reviewed studies from 2015 to 2023, focusing on the assessment methods and delivery of digital microcredentials. Microcredentials provide specialized, focused content and recognize professional learning or competency in specific skills. This paper defines digital microcredentials as those offered in an…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Microcredentials, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Stacy L. Dzbenski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the efficacy of the Beyond Rubrics Toolkit (BRT) as an embedded assessment instrument within makerspaces. Conducted as a pilot study at two Boys & Girls Club sites during afterschool programming, the research aimed to address the following research questions: (1) What skills are Youth Development Professionals teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, After School Programs, Shared Resources and Services, Youth Clubs
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Doohan, Eve-Anne; Lawless, Brandi; Ho, Evelyn Y. – Communication Teacher, 2022
Assessment has become increasingly integral to college and university accreditation. While formal assessment has become more of a responsibility for instructors as related to their individual classes and assignments, program assessment is also at the center of these conversations. However, few guidelines and resources are being shared with regard…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Communications, Higher Education, Evaluation Methods
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Isabella Vainieri; Lisa Thackeray; Saul Hillman; Alejandra Perez; Ruth Roberts; Elena Panagiotopoulou – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Communication to the lay audience is a critical skill in academia. To equip students with this skill, we developed a new workshop and assessment. Postgraduate students attended a 1.5-hour workshop taught by a communication expert to develop communication skills and deliver engaging presentations. They were then asked to develop a 10-minute podcast…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Science Instruction
Sadro, Fay; Marsh, Lucy; Klenk, Hazel; Egglestone, Corin; Friel, Seana – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The future of work is changing, providing opportunities for new careers and novel ways of working. Changes to the world of work will be driven by long-term trends such as technological and demographic change as well as the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Future skills requirements will increasingly emphasise interpersonal, higher-order…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Change, Electronic Learning, Job Skills
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Jeffery McManus; Mico Rudasingwa; Ewoud Nijhof; Kenna Mokobi; Serigne Fallou Deme; James Kiawoin; Felipe Acero Garay; Leah Mwai; Cassandre Pignon – Education Economics, 2025
Children in Liberia receive 2.2 learning-adjusted years of schooling, one of the lowest levels of educational attainment in the world. We study one approach to address low enrollment and low rates of learning: a 10-month accelerated learning program run by the Luminos Fund to help out-of-school children catch up to grade level. We conducted a…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Out of School Youth, Acceleration (Education), Educational Attainment
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Gao, Xiaoyi; Li, Peishan; Shen, Ji; Sun, Huifang – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
STEM education has received increasing attention in recent years. However, developing valid and reliable assessment of interdisciplinary learning in STEM has been a challenge. This study is a comprehensive review of assessment of interdisciplinary STEM education during the last two decades. A total of 49 empirical research articles were collected…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Objectives
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Jamil, Shah Bano; Iqbal, Zafar – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2020
The CIPP evaluative model was employed to evaluate vocational training programs for developing entrepreneurial skills among women at Vocational Training Centers (VTCs) established by Government of the Punjab under TEVTA. A VTC center running under this program at Layyah was selected due to the backwardness of the area. Three programs were…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Females
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Robinson, Fiona; Piggot Irvine, Eileen; Youngs, Howard; Cady, Phil – Educational Action Research, 2019
The aim of this paper is to share the results of a global inquiry into the outcomes and impacts of action research (AR) projects. This is one of a series of papers associated with the Evaluative Study of Action Research (ESAR), an initiative launched by an international team of seven action researchers, to understand if the espoused intents…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Carpentieri, J. D. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
The field of Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) has an evidence problem. This paper analyses that problem through the lens of three overarching types of evidence available to researchers and policymakers: Type 1 evidence, which provides descriptions of the scope of social problems; Type 2 evidence measuring the impacts of programmes addressing…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Evidence, Social Problems
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Murray, Alan – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to concentrate on how assessment is used to support the aims of enterprise education leading to recommendations for improvements to the current approach to the assessment of enterprise. Design/methodology/approach: This paper presents a review of entrepreneurship education literature and a qualitative case…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Role
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Jones, Stephanie M.; Barnes, Sophie P.; Bailey, Rebecca; Doolittle, Emily J. – Future of Children, 2017
There's a strong case for making social and emotional learning (SEL) skills and competencies a central feature of elementary school. Children who master SEL skills get along better with others, do better in school, and have more successful careers and better mental and physical health as adults. Evidence from the most rigorous studies of…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Competence, Elementary School Students
González-Brenes, José P.; Huang, Yun – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Classification evaluation metrics are often used to evaluate adaptive tutoring systems-- programs that teach and adapt to humans. Unfortunately, it is not clear how intuitive these metrics are for practitioners with little machine learning background. Moreover, our experiments suggest that existing convention for evaluating tutoring systems may…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Student Behavior
American Institutes for Research, 2015
Deciding whether and how to use assessments to evaluate students' social and emotional (SE) knowledge, attitudes, and skills requires the development and critical appraisal of an assessment plan. At the state, district, and school levels, education leaders and staff can benefit from reviewing best practices and using a structured format to arrive…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
American Institutes for Research, 2015
Education in the 21st century is awakening to a call for students who are not only proficient with academic content but who also have developed the social and emotional (SE) knowledge, attitudes, and skills that are necessary for success in college and careers. This brief refers to that combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills as SE…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
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