NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Flores, Maria Assunção; Veiga Simão, Ana Margarida; Barros, Alexandra; Pereira, Diana – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper draws upon a broader piece of research aimed at investigating assessment in higher education. It focuses upon the perceptions of undergraduates about issues of effectiveness, fairness and feedback, particularly in regard to the so-called learner-centred methods. In total, 378 undergraduate students participated in the study at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Undergraduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Piedmont, Ralph L.; Hyland, Michael E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1993
The use of mean inter-item correlation as a technique for examining homogeneity is proposed as a descriptive tool that can orient researchers to salient aspects of their scales. A study of 341 undergraduates who completed the NEO Personality Inventory illustrates the technique. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Personality Measures
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Suen, Hoi K. – Evaluation Review, 1984
A procedure for the analysis of judgmental estimates is derived. It uses a t-distribution concept to derive the relative experience of an expert and uses the derived experience as weight to obtain a weighted mean. Using this method, error in estimation was reduced by an average of one-half. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods, Experience, Higher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Cronin, Blaise; Overfelt, Kara – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Explores the use of citation data in evaluating research performance of academic programs and individual faculty members based on a 10-year analysis of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. The use of three methods conjointly for allocating citational credit to multiauthored works is discussed. (Contains 35…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Publishing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Baggaley, Andrew R.; Hull, Alan L. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1983
Various combinations of nonlinear transformations were applied to responses to a clinical performance evaluation instrument that uses a four-point behaviorally anchored scale. The factorial structure of the 15 items constituting the evaluation form was minimally affected by the transformations, suggesting that parametric statistics can be applied…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Evaluation Methods, Factor Structure, Graduate Medical Education
Osipian, Ararat L. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper focuses on the systematic investigation of the influence of the quasi-experimental projects on possible changes in inequality in access to higher education in Russia. While intuition points toward a positive effect of introduction of the standardized tests and educational vouchers on the decrease in inequality in access to higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Evaluation Methods, Standardized Tests