Advancements in education and the perceived necessary educational outcomes require advanced psychometric approaches. This is particularly true when we consider noncognitive assessments -- assessments that aim to measure soft skills, otherwise untested in classrooms today. Noncognitive skills have gained traction in recent years due to the…

Increasing applications to U.S. osteopathic and allopathic medical schools requires admissions offices and committees to continual seek new evaluative measures to identify and selective the most qualified applicants for interviews and ultimately admission to their institutions. The use of situational judgement tests (SJTs) help identify applicants…

The Ethical Reasoning in Action program leveraged program assessment data to further promote student learning based on their effective educational framework for ethical reasoning: The Eight Key Question (8KQ) strategy. A cross-disciplinary team of five core researchers launched the first constructivist qualitative inquiry into students' ethical…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Situated Game Teaching through Set Plays (SGTSP) curricular model on college students' tactical knowledge, skill development, game play, and situational interest in an 8-lesson tennis unit. To compare the effectiveness of the SGTSP to a technique-focused approach, a quasi-experimental design:…

Nurse anesthesia is a highly challenging and respected advanced practice specialty. With the respect comes a rigorous educational process that is commenced with admission into a graduate nurse anesthesia program. Faculty face the difficult task of selecting candidates that demonstrate promise in successful progression through the graduate nurse…

Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are used to measure important components of professional competence that cannot be assessed via traditional tests of knowledge and skills. Despite their increasing popularity, there is a significant gap in the validity evidence and research on the response process to support how SJTs measure their intended…

Accurate situational assessment is key to any decision maker and especially crucial in military command and control, air traffic control, and complex system decision making. Endsley described three dependent levels of situational awareness, (1) perception, (2) understanding, and (3) projection. This research was focused on Endsley's…

This study investigates student learning in science center exhibitions as a form of informal education and examines intrinsic, instrumental, and situational student motivation. Subjects (N=130) consisted of 6 comprehensive school classes of 7th graders in the greater Helsinki area. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with two…