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Louise Badham – Oxford Review of Education, 2025
Different sources of assessment evidence are reviewed during International Baccalaureate (IB) grade awarding to convert marks into grades and ensure fair results for students. Qualitative and quantitative evidence are analysed to determine grade boundaries, with statistical evidence weighed against examiner judgement and teachers' feedback on…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Grading, Interrater Reliability, Evaluative Thinking
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Lance, Donald M. – Language Sciences, 1973
Report on the results of an experiment conducted in various university-level linguistics and English courses on the choice between whoever'' and whomever'' in the sentence, The teacher gave a prize to whoever/whomever he thought was the best student.'' (RS)
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Experiments, Pronouns, Statistical Data
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Parrott, Roxanne; Silk, Kami; Dorgan, Kelly; Condit, Celeste; Harris, Tina – Human Communication Research, 2005
Too little theory and research has considered the effects of communicating statistics in various forms on comprehension, perceptions of evidence quality, or evaluations of message persuasiveness. In a considered extension of Subjective Message Construct Theory (Morley, 1987), we advance a rationale relating evidence form to the formation of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Risk, Evaluative Thinking, Verbal Communication
Campbell, Angus – 1977
Economic analysis of the quality of life in America must consider personal values and social indicators as well as economic indicators. Although the technical procedures and statistical techniques of economic research are constantly improving, the validity of the research is hampered by problems of definition and measurement. Definition and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Decision Making, Definitions, Economic Climate