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Wright, Christian D.; Eddy, Sarah L.; Wenderoth, Mary Pat; Abshire, Elizabeth; Blankenbiller, Margaret; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Recent reform efforts in undergraduate biology have recommended transforming course exams to test at more cognitively challenging levels, which may mean including more cognitively challenging and more constructed-response questions on assessments. However, changing the characteristics of exams could result in bias against historically underserved…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
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Sheehan, Kathleen M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
The "TextEvaluator"® text analysis tool is a fully automated text complexity evaluation tool designed to help teachers, curriculum specialists, textbook publishers, and test developers select texts that are consistent with the text complexity guidelines specified in the Common Core State Standards.This paper documents the procedure used…
Descriptors: Scores, Common Core State Standards, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics
Wilson, Dennis L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this case study was to describe, assess, and compare the cognitive level of instruction, course objectives, instructional strategies, assessments, and the transdisciplinary nature of two post-secondary degree programs in sustainability. Instructional strategies in these programs included such methods as class presentations, group…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, 2008
The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) promotes standards to enhance opportunities for student learning and development from higher education programs and services. Responding to the increased shift in attention being paid by educators and their stakeholders from higher education inputs (i.e., standards and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Student Development, Classification
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Rinchuse, Donald J.; Zullo, Thomas – Journal of Dental Education, 1986
Classification according to Bloom's taxonomy of 518 tests items from one dental school's predoctoral written examination revealed almost 84 percent to be at the knowledge level and the remainder at the comprehension level, with none at any higher cognitive level (application, analysis, synthesis, or evaluation). (MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Dental Schools, Difficulty Level
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Hill, P. W. – Australian Journal of Education, 1984
The use of structural equation modeling is discussed in testing a range of theories of learning and cognition involving the concept of a hierarchy of variables of increasing complexity. To illustrate this approach, one method is applied to Bloom's taxonomy to test the theoretical assumption of hierarchical organization. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, Difficulty Level, Epistemology
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Blumberg, Phyllis; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
First year medical students answered parallel multiple-choice questions at different taxonomic levels as part of their diagnostic examinations. The results show that when content is held constant, students perform as well on interpretation and problem-solving questions as on recall questions. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
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Andre, Thomas; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
In seven experiments, college or high school students studied texts containing either adjunct application or adjunct factual questions. Students were then tested for their ability to apply the presented concepts. Results suggested that the type of adjunct question had little influence on students' later ability to apply presented concepts.…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Generalization
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Biggs, John – Higher Education, 1979
The relationship between students' study processes and the structural complexity of their learning is examined. Study processes are viewed in terms of three dimensions and are assessed by a questionnaire. Learning quality is expressed in levels of a taxonomy. A study that relates taxonomic levels and retention to study processes is reported.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Style, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Clements, Andrea D.; Rothenberg, Lori – Research in the Schools, 1996
Undergraduate psychology examinations from 48 schools were analyzed to determine the proportion of items at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy, item format, and test length. Analyses indicated significant relationships between item complexity and test length even when taking format into account. Use of higher items may be related to shorter tests,…
Descriptors: Classification, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
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Chermesh, Ran – Educational Research Quarterly, 1979
Responses of approximately 250 Israeli students who evaluated college instruction were analyzed with respect to lower-level (LLC) and higher-level cognitive processes (HLC). LLC and HLC were found to be complementary, rather than competitive; and both contributed to students' ratings of teaching and of course interest. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Course Evaluation, Difficulty Level
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Torrance, M.; And Others – Higher Education, 1994
A survey of 101 social sciences graduate students investigated their writing habits, attitudes toward writing, and productivity. Three distinct groups were identified--planners, revisers, and mixed strategy writers--each with differing productivity and perceptions of writing difficulty. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, Difficulty Level, Graduate Students, Higher Education
O'Neill, Kathleen A.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of this study was to identify differentially functioning items on operational administrations of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) through the use of the Mantel-Haenszel statistic. Retrospective analyses of data collected over 3 years are reported for black/white and female/male comparisons for the Verbal and Quantitative…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classification, College Entrance Examinations, Difficulty Level
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Enns, James T.; King, Katherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Experiment 1 suggested that age differences in line-drawing interpretation among subjects between 6 and 24 years reflected changes in short-term memory for features and changes in strategies used to integrate features over space and time. Experiment 2 suggested that older observers were more active in their attempts to interpret drawings and that…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Halliday, M. A. K. – 1989
While native and non-native English-speakers may approach scientific English differently, the same features cause difficulty for both groups. The difficulties generally occur more with grammar and the complex relationships between terms than with vocabularly, and may be classified in seven categories: interlocking definitions, technical…
Descriptors: Classification, Difficulty Level, English for Science and Technology, English (Second Language)
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