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Peer reviewedLumsden, Keith G.; Scott, Alex – Journal of Economic Education, 1987
Traces student comprehension in beginning economics course examinations in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. Demonstrates that males performed better on multiple-choice tests, females performed better on essay examinations, and that female learning rates were lower than male learning rates. Reviews the influence of precollege courses. Includes…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Test Interpretation
Direct linkRoos, Bertil; Hamilton, David – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2005
This paper considers alternative assessment, feedback and cybernetics. For more than 30 years, debates about the bi-polarity of formative and summative assessment have served as surrogates for discussions about the workings of the mind, the social implications of assessment and, as important, the role of instruction in the advancement of learning.…
Descriptors: Feedback, Formative Evaluation, Cybernetics, Constructivism (Learning)
Download full textHambleton, Ronald K.; Swaminathan, H. – 1985
Comments are made on the review papers presented by six Dutch psychometricians: Ivo Molenaar, Wim van der Linden, Ed Roskam, Arnold Van den Wollenberg, Gideon Mellenbergh, and Dato de Gruijter. Molenaar has embraced a pragmatic viewpoint on Bayesian methods, using both empirical and pure approaches to solve educational research problems. Molenaar…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
