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Girma Tessema; Kassa Michael; Solomon Areaya – Open Education Studies, 2024
This study examined the relationship between pre-service teachers' epistemological views and their assessment conceptions, as well as how epistemological beliefs and their components contribute to the variation in their assessment conceptions. Utilizing a quantitative descriptive correlational research design, data were collected from 197…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Evaluative Thinking, Student Attitudes
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Sara Pereira; Pedro Moura – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
The assessment of media literacy is a complex task, which might attempt to reconcile a research field traditionally developed within a critical paradigm with the task of evaluating and quantifying media literacy competences through essentially quantitative methods. Despite the lack of consensus regarding how to evaluate and measure media literacy,…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Competence, Adolescents, Secondary School Students
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Yves Karlen; Kerstin Bäuerlein; Sabrina Brunner – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is crucial for successful lifelong learning and an important educational goal. For students to develop SRL skills, they need appropriate SRL support from teachers in the classroom. Teachers, who are aware of their students' strengths and weaknesses in SRL, can promote SRL more adaptively. This requires teachers to…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Lifelong Learning, Competence, Evaluative Thinking
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Keshavarz, Hamid; Norouzi, Yaghoub – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
Owing to the extreme importance of evaluating the credibility of existing scientific websites, the present study sets out to measure a proposed model concerning the views and preferences of university students in Iran, when evaluating information. Data were collected by administrating a highly validated questionnaire among 487 students in ten top…
Descriptors: Credibility, Evaluation Methods, Scientific and Technical Information, Web Sites
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Jeffery Buckley – Journal of Technology Education, 2024
The use of adaptive comparative judgement (ACJ) for assessment in technology education has been topical since its introduction to the field through the e-scape project coordinated by the Technology Education Research Unit in the United Kingdom. In the last decade, however, there has been an increasing volume of research examining how ACJ can and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Open Source Technology, Computer Oriented Programs
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Noor, Mohd Syafiq Aiman Mat – Science Education International, 2021
This study sought to assess the level of secondary students' scientific literacy in suburban schools in Malaysia and England, a research area which to date has not been fully explored in the literature. The study analyzed the data using the OECD's three domain-specific competencies of scientific literacy, namely: (i) explain phenomena…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Secondary School Students, Scientific Literacy
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van Winkelen, Christine – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the use of developmental evaluation methods with community of practice programmes experiencing change or transition to better understand how to target support resources. Design/methodology/approach: The practical use of a number of developmental evaluation methods was explored in three organizations over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Communities of Practice, Educational Change
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Cassedy, Lindsay; Flaherty, Catherine; Fordham, Michael – Teaching History, 2011
In this article, Lindsay Cassedy, Catherine Flaherty and Michael Fordham draw upon their empirical research to assess what understandings their students had of historical interpretations at the end of their compulsory education in history. They found that most students operated with an underlying epistemological model that did not reflect the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, National Curriculum
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Vella, Yosanne – Teaching History, 2011
The small-scale research that Yosanne Vella reports in this article was driven by concern to help pupils develop "big picture" visions of the past and to engage effectively with the idea of change as a process rather than an event. The strategy that she adopts--asking groups of students to colour in a timeline recording their judgement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Social Change
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Black, Beth; Bramley, Tom – Research Papers in Education, 2008
A new judgemental method of equating raw scores on two tests, based on rank-ordering scripts from both tests, has been developed by Bramley. The rank-ordering method has potential application as a judgemental standard-maintaining mechanism, because given a mark on one test (e.g. the A grade boundary mark), the equivalent mark (i.e. at the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equated Scores, Test Theory, Evaluative Thinking
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Kiili, Carita; Laurinen, Leena; Marttunen, Miika – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
The Internet is a significant information resource for students due to the ease of access it allows to a vast amount of information. As the quality of the information on the Internet varies, it is important that students are able to evaluate such information critically. The aim of the study was to investigate how students evaluate Internet sources…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Secondary School Students, Essays, Writing Assignments
Russell, N.; And Others – 1981
This document provides units to assist teachers and parents in evaluating kindergarten and preschool curricula. Preparing an evaluation and planning an evaluation are covered in units I and II. Two other units have been written as resource documents and present data-gathering methods and ways of reporting and using information. The authors stress…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluative Thinking
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Trotman, Dave – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2006
It is now a matter of routine that schools in England are able to demonstrate the value of their work in terms of "impact" and "outcomes." In the province of imaginative education this is problematic. While Government has sought to create a new relationship between inspection and school self-evaluation, this in effect has…
Descriptors: Imagination, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
Borkenau, Peter – 1993
Whether judgments made by complete strangers as to the intelligence of subjects are accurate or merely illusory was studied in Germany. Target subjects were 50 female and 50 male adults recruited through a newspaper article. Eighteen judges, who did not know the subjects, were recruited from a university community. Videorecordings of the subjects,…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Auditory Stimuli, Decision Making
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Carden, Fred; Earl, Sarah – New Directions for Evaluation, 2007
Until the recent introduction of a dynamic interview-based process, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian development research funding agency, faced a challenge: project completion reports (PCRs) were not being completed in a timely and quality manner. This is a common problem many organizations face in completing…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Foreign Countries, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluation Methods
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