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Nicolas Van Vlasselaer; Jona Van den Broeck; Ben Serrien; Erik Cattrysse – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
Integration of 3D photogrammetry models into anatomical education can enhance students' understanding of complex anatomical structures. With advancements in photogrammetry technology, this integration has become more accessible. Interactive, photorealistic models complement traditional methods such as donor dissections. This study evaluates the…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Computer Simulation, Photography
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Hill, Erin M.; Anderson, Laurie; Finley, Brandon; Hillyard, Cinnamon; Kochanski, Mark – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2019
What motivates and demotivates students in their engagement in at-home work for high-stakes assignments, such as test preparation and writing and revising papers? This paper outlines a student-centered method to identify learning strategies students actually use and obstacles students actually face compared to what is reported in the literature.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Undergraduate Students, Barriers, STEM Education
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Khasianov, Airat; Shakhova, Irina – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
In this paper we study a new model of mobile learning for the Unified State Exam ("USE") preparation in Russian Federation. "USE"--is the test school graduates need to pass in order to obtain Russian matura. In recent years the efforts teachers put for preparation of their students to the "USE" diminish how well the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Electronic Learning, Models, Test Preparation
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Booth, Dawn Karen – English Language Education, 2018
This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea. South Korea is regarded as a shining example of success in educational achievement and, as this book reveals, pressurised standardised testing has been a major contributing factor to its success. This unique country provides an excellent setting…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Panahi, Ali; Mohebbi, Hassan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
High stakes testing, such as IELTS, is designed to select individuals for decision-making purposes (Fulcher, 2013b). Hence, there is a slow-growing stream of research investigating the subskills of IELTS listening and, in feedback terms, its effects on individuals and educational programs. Here, cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) performs it…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Listening Comprehension Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Diagnostic Tests
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Razavipour, Kioumars; Mansoori, Mahboobeh; Gooniband Shooshtari, Zohreh – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Over the last three decades, the study of test preparation and test washback has emerged as an indispensable area of inquiry in language assessment. Yet, how test takers' motivation and perceptions of test design and content might mediate test preparation has not been given sufficient attention. Taking the general English module of a high stakes…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Foghahaee, Zahra – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
Reverse engineering (RE) can play an important role in the re-designing tests in L2 English. It can also enrich the aim of teaching the same as raising children through academic achievement. In addition, it can play a key role in helping students understand how much their test is valid by using Standard reverse engineering (SRE). This paper is a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Mackatiani, Caleb Imbova – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This paper provides a critical appraisal of the influence of examinations oriented approaches on quality education in primary schools in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to determine effects of examination oriented teaching approaches on learning achievement among primary school pupils in Kakamega County, Kenya. It explored the assumptions…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Gedik, Serafettin – Online Submission, 2018
The extant literature indicates that parental engagement is positively related with student achievement (Celenk, 2003; Epstein, 1995, 2009, 2011; Gul, 2007; Henderson, Daviess, Johnson & Mapp, 2007; Henderson & Mapp, 2002; Kotoman, 2008; Jeynes, 2012; Sad, 2012; Sheldon & Epstein, 2005; Sui-Chu & Willms, 1996). Despite its promise…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
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Harris, Donna Marie – Educational Policy, 2011
Given the efforts of comprehensive school reform to improve the quality of educational opportunities for students by providing a standards based curriculum, this analysis examines the issue of tracking and its implications regarding curriculum differentiation. Using data from middle schools involved with the comprehensive school reform model,…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Middle Schools, Academically Gifted, Second Language Learning
St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2014
The Algebra Project DR K-12, funded by the National Science Foundation as a Research and Development Project, addressed the challenge of offering significant STEM content for students to ensure public literacy and workforce readiness. The project's primary purpose was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a model for establishing four-year…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Algebra, Demonstration Programs, Cohort Analysis