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Thomas A. O'Neill; Aliza J. Aldana; Jose A. Espinoza; McKenna P. Sperry; Kyle M. Brykman; Magda B. L. Donia – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Teamwork skills are foundational for career success and student learning in group projects. One of the major challenges of teamwork involves managing conflict among team members. In the current research, we develop a conflict management styles (CMS) psychometric inventory that assesses students' levels of the five styles of managing conflict based…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Feedback (Response), Teamwork, Psychometrics
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Amirhossein Rasooli; Jim Turner; Tünde Varga-Atkins; Edd Pitt; Shaghayegh Asgari; Will Moindrot – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Groupwork is a crucial aspect of work contexts and a key twenty first century skill. Assessment of groupwork provides a persistent challenge for educators in university contexts with students reporting experiences of unfairness from their peers during groupwork. This study developed a novel Peer Assessment Fairness Instrument to explore factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
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Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Luk, Lillian Y. Y. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
There is a need to develop an instrument for undergraduate students to evaluate their holistic competencies. Such an instrument can not only be used as a tool for benchmarking but can also be used to enhance students' awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and to inform teaching by improving teachers' understanding of their students. This…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Undergraduate Students, Holistic Approach
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Martins, Maria João; Reis Marques, Tiago; Laíns, Inês; Leal, Inês; Pessanha, Inês; Brochado, Bruno; Oliveira Santos, Manuel; Pinto Teixeira, Pedro; Fernandes, Diogo Hipólito; Silva, João Carlos; Sampaio, Filipa Almeida; Brandão, Mariana; Morais, Inês; Laranjinha, Inês; Teixeira, Nelson; Fernandes, Tiago; Carneiro, Diogo; Calvão, Joana; Pratas, Miguel; Palmela, Carolina; Lima, António; Pires, Guilherme; Reis, Joel; Raimundo, Miguel; Afonso, Raquel Rocha; Costa e Silva, Miguel; Quintas, Catarina; Rodrigues, Tiago M.; Coelho, Nuno Henriques; Ramos, Sónia Afonso; Policiano, Catarina; Rato, Catarina; Faria, Daniel Candeias; Lopes, Alice; Rodrigues, Joana Ramos; Ferreira, Afonso Nunes; Costeira, Filipa de Sousa; Marques, Renata; Cordeiro, Hugo; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
The UK National Student Survey (NSS) is a sound and widely used instrument for assessing students' academic experiences. We aimed to translate the NSS for Portuguese students and to validate the instrument in a sample of medical undergraduates. The research team translated and adapted the NSS for Portuguese students (NSS-P). The survey was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Medical Students
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Tomes, Tania; Coetzee, Stephen; Schmulian, Astrid – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
The validity of traditional opinion-based student evaluations of teaching (SETs) may be compromised by inattentive responses and low response rates due to evaluation fatigue, and/or by personal response bias. To reduce the impact of evaluation fatigue and personal response bias on SETs, this study explores peer prediction-based SETs as an…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Bias
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Simpson, Genevieve; Clifton, Julian – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Peer review feedback, developed to assist students with increasing the quality of group reports and developing peer review skills, was added to a master's level Climate Change Policy and Planning unit. A pre- and post-survey was conducted to determine whether students found the process a valuable learning opportunity: 87% of students responding to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Plagiarism, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Ashenafi, Michael Mogessie – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Peer assessment in higher education has been studied for decades. Despite the substantial amount of research carried out, peer assessment has yet to make significant advances. This review identifies themes of recent research and highlights the challenges that have hampered its advance. Most of these challenges arise from the manual nature of peer…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Higher Education, College Students, Educational Research
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Kandiko Howson, Camille; Buckley, Alex – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Student engagement has become a key feature of UK higher education, but until recently there has been a lack of data to track, benchmark and drive enhancement. In 2015 the first full administration ran in the UK a range of survey items drawn from the US-based National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). This is the latest example of international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, College Freshmen, College Seniors
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Yin, Hongbiao; Wang, Wenyan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Viewing student engagement as a multidimensional construct, this study explored the motivation and engagement of undergraduate students in China. A sample of 1131 students from 10 full-time universities in Beijing participated in a survey. The results showed that the Motivation and Engagement Scale for university/college students is a promising…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Juniper, Bridget; Walsh, Elaine; Richardson, Alan; Morley, Bernard – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
This study describes the development of an assessment to evaluate the well-being of PhD researchers using a clinically approved methodology that places the perceptions and experiences of the subject population at the heart of its construction. It identifies and assesses the range and relative importance of seven distinct dimensions which are shown…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Content Validity, Researchers, Well Being
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Cumming, Jennifer; Woodcock, Charlotte; Cooley, Sam J.; Holland, Mark J. G.; Burns, Victoria E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
The aim of the present study was to develop and provide psychometric evidence in support of the groupwork skills questionnaire (GSQ) for measuring task and interpersonal groupwork skills. A 46-item version of the GSQ was initially completed by 672 university students. The number of items was reduced to 15 following exploratory factor analyses, and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity, Skills
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Liu, Ou Lydia; Mao, Liyang; Frankel, Lois; Xu, Jun – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Critical thinking is a learning outcome highly valued by higher education institutions and the workforce. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has designed a next generation assessment, the HEIghten™ critical thinking assessment, to measure students' critical thinking skills in analytical and synthetic dimensions. This paper introduces the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cognitive Tests, Test Validity, Thinking Skills
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Legg, Angela M.; Wilson, Janie H. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is becoming an increasingly popular tool among students, faculty and school administrators. The validity of RMP is a point of debate; many would argue that self-selection bias obscures the usefulness of RMP evaluations. In order to test this possibility, we collected three types of evaluations: RMP evaluations that…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Web Sites, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
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Patrick, Carol Lynn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
The purpose of the current study was to examine whether the Big Five personality traits and expected student grades relate to student evaluations of teachers and courses at the college level. Extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness were found to be personality traits favoured in instructors, whereas neuroticism was not. A…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Personality, Teacher Characteristics, Personality Traits
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Dodeen, Hamzeh – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Test-taking strategies are important cognitive skills that strongly affect students' performance in tests. Using appropriate test-taking strategies improves students' achievement and grades, improves students' attitudes toward tests and reduces test anxiety. This results in improving test accuracy and validity. This study aimed at developing a…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Student Attitudes, Time Management, Validity
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