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Lee, Walter C.; Hall, Janice L.; Godwin, Allison; Knight, David B.; Verdín, Dina – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: Supporting undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been a persistent need. However, assessing the impact of support efforts can prove challenging as it is difficult to operationalize student support and subsequently monitor the combined impacts of the various supports to which students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, STEM Education
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Bolton, Tiffany; Stevenson, Brittney; Janes, William – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2021
Researchers utilized a prospective cohort study design to explore the feasibility and construct validity of a novel handwriting assessment for preschoolers, the Just Write! (JW), written by the authors. Thirty-seven children from an area preschool participated in the study by completing the JW and the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Student Evaluation, Preschool Children, Feasibility Studies
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Kriswantoro; Kartowagiran, Badrun; Rohaeti, Eli – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Every school should be able to equip students to have the ability to integrate the knowledge gained with real life in responding to global challenges. Assessment of learning outcomes in the form of cognitive and skill aspects must go hand in hand. This study aims to produce: (1) a critical thinking model integrated with the science process, (2)…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Science Process Skills
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Alhunaini, Saoud; Osman, Kamisah; Abdurab, Naser – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study was conducted to corroborate in understanding the teachers' beliefs about assessment practices. The prior studies related to teachers' assessment beliefs in mathematics have been done to assess teachers' beliefs in the general context of mathematics teaching. This study developed an instrument to assess teachers' assessment beliefs of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers, Factor Analysis, Mathematics Skills
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Meijer, Hajo; Hoekstra, Rink; Brouwer, Jasperina; Strijbos, Jan-Willem – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Over the past two decades, curricula in higher education have increasingly incorporated collaborative learning. However, due to (a) large variations in students' domain-specific abilities (e.g. knowledge and/or skills) and the effort they invest into the collaboration and (b) teachers' limited knowledge about how to assess collaborative learning,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Assessment Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Reflection
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Anani Sarab, Mohammad Reza; Rahmani, Simindokht – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Language testing and assessment have grown in popularity and gained significance in the last few decades, and there is a rising need for assessment literate stakeholders in the field of language education. As teachers play a major role in assessing students, there is a need to make sure they have the right level of assessment knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
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Figliano, Fred J.; Wells, John G. – Journal of Technology Education, 2019
This study outlines the development of the Design Log Instrument (DLI), which is intended for use in identifying moments of abstraction as evidence of STEM content knowledge transfer. The DLI prompts participants to be reflective during technological/engineering design challenges. During the development of this instrument, a three-phase,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Transfer of Training, Engineering Education, Design
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Herro, Danielle; Quigley, Cassie; Andrews, Jessica; Delacruz, Girlie – International Journal of STEM Education, 2017
Background: The shortage of skilled workers choosing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers in the USA and worldwide has fueled a movement towards STEAM, in which the "A" addresses the arts and humanities. STEAM education has been proposed as a way to offer relevant problems to solve while drawing on creative and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Humanities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Torkildsen, Lisbeth Gyllander; Erickson, Gudrun – Education Inquiry, 2016
The focus of the current study is students' perceptions of assessment and assessment practices. Assessment is understood as practices closely connected to the planning, enactment and evaluation of teaching and learning activities. The data derive from focus group interviews and dialogical meetings with students at a Swedish comprehensive school.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods
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Brown, Nathaniel J.; Afflerbach, Peter P.; Croninger, Robert G. – Educational Psychology Review, 2014
National policy and standards documents, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress frameworks, the "Common Core State Standards" and the "Next Generation Science Standards," assert the need to assess critical-analytic thinking (CAT) across subject areas. However, assessment of CAT poses several challenges for…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, National Standards, National Competency Tests
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Williams, Cody T.; Walter, Emily M.; Henderson, Charles; Beach, Andrea L. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: Collecting data on instructional practices is an important step in planning and enacting meaningful initiatives to improve undergraduate science instruction. Self-report survey instruments are one of the most common tools used for collecting data on instructional practices. This paper is an instrument- and item-level analysis of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Rusilowati, Ani; Kurniawati, Lina; Nugroho, Sunyoto E.; Widiyatmoko, Arif – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to develop scientific literacy evaluation instrument that tested its validity, reliability, and characteristics to measure the skill of student's scientific literacy used four scientific literacy, categories as follow:science as a body of knowledge (category A), science as a way of thinking (category B), science as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Grade 9, Test Construction
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Polikoff, Morgan S.; McEachin, Andrew J.; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Duque, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2014
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have recently received waivers to the school accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As the prospects for reauthorizing the Act in the near term are dim, these new accountability systems will be law for at least several years. Drawing on a four-part framework from the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
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Hopkins, Michael T. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' practices and beliefs related to the teaching of stringed instrument tuning in elementary and middle school group classes. The aspects examined included the following: (a) teachers' beliefs about teaching tuning in their string classes, (b) activities teachers used when teaching tuning in string…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Music Teachers, Elementary Schools
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Dodeen, Hamzeh – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
Students' evaluations of teaching (SETs) are currently the most commonly used method for evaluating teaching effectiveness in higher education institutions. They aid in evaluating the quality of faculty teaching and provide useful information for administrators, faculty, and students. The majority of SET instruments were developed based on faculty…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness, Psychometrics, Foreign Countries
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