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Taras, Maddalena; Davies, Mark S. – London Review of Education, 2017
This research focuses on the assessment literacy, that is, the understandings of assessment terminologies and how they relate to each other, in academic staff developers in the UK, collected via questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Academic staff developers have been trained and certified to support new higher education lecturers in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Beliefs, Vocabulary, Semi Structured Interviews
Brinkley-Etzkorn, Karen Elizabeth; Schumann, David; White, Beth; Smith, Tiffany – To Improve the Academy, 2016
Individual instructor consultation is a common service provided by centers focused on educational development in higher education. The importance of this service has been reflected in its history, increasing demand, and strong anecdotal evidence to its effectiveness. However, the extant literature reveals that comprehensive assessment of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Consultants, Higher Education, Consultation Programs
Sefcik, Lesley; Bedford, Simon; Czech, Peter; Smith, Judith; Yorke, Jonathan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
External referencing of assessment and students' achievement standards is a growing priority area within higher education, which is being pressured by government requirements to evidence outcome attainment. External referencing benefits stakeholders connected to higher education by helping to assure that assessments and standards within courses…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Models
Nguyen, Tham T. H.; Walker, Melanie – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
This paper explores the alignment of assessment practices in universities and lifelong learning as a key process and outcome for expansive student development. It outlines Boud's approach to assessment, operationalises this to analyse practices in two contrasting national contexts: the sociology departments of the Midlands University in the UK and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Watson, Jan S. – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2014
This article examines how Education undergraduates explored their creative processes through the planning and presentation of an artwork. In particular, it addresses how they negotiated the demands of an assessment method which focused on both the reflective process and the finished product. This investigation is part of a more extensive study of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Semi Structured Interviews
Moncada Linares, Sthephanny; Díaz Romero, Andrea Carolina – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2016
As a result of the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the growing interest in Internet-based tools for language classroom, it has become a pressing need for educators to locate, evaluate and select the most appropriate language-learning digital resources that foster more communicative and meaningful learning…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communicative Competence (Languages), Web Sites, Computer Assisted Instruction
Albaqami, Saud – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Quality assurance in higher education remains to be one of the most prominent fields of research at the present. In the Saudi Arabian higher education institutions (HEIs), quality assurance is a relatively new concept and Saudi universities seem not to effectively implement quality assurance caused by the certain obstacles. As such, there are two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Program Implementation, Higher Education
Stevens, Cynthia Rae – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Prior learning assessment (PLA) is a non-traditional component of higher education that recognizes that life experiences and learning from outside of academia can be deemed valid and awarded college credit. This qualitative study explored the perceptions of faculty assessors of PLA portfolios. This study sought to understand, through a…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Semi Structured Interviews, College Credits, Qualitative Research
Mariki, Belingtone Eliringia – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
This study was carried out at Hanyang Cyber University (HYCU) in the Republic of Korea. The main purpose of this study was to explore Hanyang Cyber University's experience in the use of ICT in Distance Education (DE) so as to learn best practices that can be adapted by the Institute of Adult Education (IAE) in Tanzania. Specifically, the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Distance Education, Best Practices
Obaid, Rana – English Language Teaching, 2016
This small-scale mixed method research focuses on investigating the way Preparatory Year English Program (PYEP) female students in a Saudi tertiary level institution context are assessed and how they are advanced from level three (Pre-intermediate) and level four (Intermediate). A four-point agreement scale survey was conducted with fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jacobs, Rachael – Higher Education Studies, 2012
Assessment in aesthetic fields presents a myriad of challenges in the higher education environment. This paper uses a metaphorical representation to explore the role of assessors within aesthetic assessment settings in higher education. It begins with a discussion of aesthetic fields and an exploration of the role of assessment in this area.…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Higher Education, Evaluation Needs, Evaluators
Cronholm, Stefan – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
This study is about course evaluation in Swedish higher education. Performing course evaluation is regulated in Swedish law. Despite this, only half of the courses are evaluated. The aim of this study is to understand why satisfactory course evaluations not are performed. Problems are identified from a student perspective and the paper provides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
Best Practices in Academic Assessment in Higher Education: A Case in Formative and Shared Assessment
López Pastor, Víctor M. – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2011
The aim of this article is three-fold: (a) to present an example of best practices in formative assessment in university instruction, offering three different methods of learning and assessment to pass a subject; (b) to analyze differences in academic performance depending on method of learning and assessment chosen; (c) to consider professors'…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Higher Education, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers