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Yusuf Oc; Hela Hassen – Marketing Education Review, 2025
Driven by technological innovations, continuous digital expansion has transformed fundamentally the landscape of modern higher education, leading to discussions about evaluation techniques. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence raises questions about reliability and academic honesty regarding multiple-choice assessments in online…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Electronic Learning
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Silva, Thanuci; Santos, Regiane dos; Mallet, Débora – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
Assuring the quality of education is a concern of learning institutions. To do so, it is necessary to have assertive learning management, with consistent data on students' outcomes. This research provides associate deans and researchers, a roadmap with which to gather evidence to improve the quality of open-ended assessments. Based on statistical…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Business Education, Higher Education
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Cui, Ying; Chen, Fu; Lutsyk, Alina; Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Cutumisu, Maria – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
With the exponential increase in the volume of data available in the 21st century, data literacy skills have become vitally important in work places and everyday life. This paper provides a systematic review of available data literacy assessments targeted at different audiences and educational levels. The results can help researchers and…
Descriptors: Data, Information Literacy, 21st Century Skills, Competence
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Amrane-Cooper, Linda; Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; Tait, Alan – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2023
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic the higher education sector, in the United Kingdom and internationally, transitioned to online assessment, at a speed and scale which might have been unimaginable under normal circumstances. The priority in the sector was to ensure that fundamental principles of assessment, including integrity, were…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Change, Integrity
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Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Spowart, Lucy; Muneer, Reema; Kneale, Pauline – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
The professionalisation of teaching is of increasing importance in UK higher education due to converging processes including the proliferation of managerialism, increasing quality agendas and changes to student fee structures. These have brought into sharp relief the need for greater understanding of how quality teaching evolves in university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reflection, Evidence Based Practice, Academic Achievement
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Thomas, Jason E.; Hornsey, Philip E. – Journal of Instructional Research, 2014
Formative Classroom Assessment Techniques (CAT) have been well-established instructional tools in higher education since their exposition in the late 1980s (Angelo & Cross, 1993). A large body of literature exists surrounding the strengths and weaknesses of formative CATs. Simpson-Beck (2011) suggested insufficient quantitative evidence exists…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Nontraditional Education, Adult Education, Formative Evaluation
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Kirschner, Sophie; Borowski, Andreas; Fischer, Hans E.; Gess-Newsome, Julie; von Aufschnaiter, Claudia – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Teachers' professional knowledge is assumed to be a key variable for effective teaching. As teacher education has the goal to enhance professional knowledge of current and future teachers, this knowledge should be described and assessed. Nevertheless, only a limited number of studies quantitatively measures physics teachers' professional…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Tests, Test Format, Science Instruction
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Morrison, Keith – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
This paper reviews the literature on comparing online and paper course evaluations in higher education and provides a case study of a very large randomised trial on the topic. It presents a mixed but generally optimistic picture of online course evaluations with respect to response rates, what they indicate, and how to increase them. The paper…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Course Evaluation, Case Studies, Higher Education
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Kolstad, Rosemarie K.; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1985
Multiple choice questions that could logically provide two or more choices block the expression of judgment, thereby suppressing measurement of learning and failing to provide feedback to students and teachers. This study compares the effects of content identical multiple choice and multiple true false items on students' decision. (MT)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Test Format
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Craig, Pippa; Gordon, Jill; Clarke, Rufus; Oldmeadow, Wendy – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2009
This study aimed to provide evidence to guide decisions on the type and timing of assessments in a graduate medical programme, by identifying whether students from particular degree backgrounds face greater difficulty in satisfying the current assessment requirements. We examined the performance rank of students in three types of assessments and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Medical Education, Student Characteristics, Correlation
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Rushton, Patricia; Eggett, Dennis – Journal of Professional Nursing, 2003
Of four groups of medical-surgical nurses, 55 took one final and three midterm written exams, 150 took one each (written), 45 took an oral final, 92 took both written and oral, and 47 took a written test with licensure questions and an oral final. Oral exams resulted in higher scores, more effective study habits, and increased application. (SK)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Nursing Education, Study Habits
Hartman, Rhona C.; Redden, Martha Ross – 1985
The fact sheet focuses on considerations when testing adaptations are needed, provides some facts about disability, and identifies a variety of adaptations of testing procedures which have been developed and successfully used in schools, vocational training programs, and on college campuses. Testing adaptations are discussed in terms of disability…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Trigwell, Keith – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1987
Preliminary findings concerning crib card examinations, in which students bring their own notes for use during testing, show that while crib card test results were similar to those from traditional examinations, students' anxiety was reduced, and testing time was saved, claims that the cards may enhance learning were not substantiated. (MSE)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Notetaking
Fansler, A. Gigi; And Others – 1995
Comprehensive examinations, long a bastion in many doctoral programs, are one of many customs under scrutiny for possible change in a movement towards more authentic means of educational assessment. This preliminary study surveyed chairs of departments of educational administration from universities across the United States to learn how computers…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Computer Uses in Education, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Administration
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Wergin, Jon F. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Each of the many methods or approaches to assessing student learning is based on a clear understanding of validity, reliability, course objectives, the advantages and disadvantages of different evaluation formats, and the ways assessment data will be used to improve instruction. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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