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Lydia Arnold; James Croxford – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Authentic assessment is a widely discussed concept in higher education, but it has a problem: the concept has become so all-encompassing that its meaning is now unclear. The notion has been expanded and diluted. For example, adding social justice to the definition or positioning exams as authentic, adds to the contradictions inherent within in the…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Higher Education, Vocabulary, Evaluation Methods
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Anna E. Sundström; Terese Glatz; Camilla Hakelind; Sofia Bergbom; Sara Edlund – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
A challenge for professional psychology programs is the assessment of students' professional competence. Despite its potential, objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has not gained widespread use in the psychological field. However, at Umeå University and Örebro University in Sweden, the OSCE has been introduced at the Clinical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Degrees, Clinical Psychology
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Yesim Ozansak Topcu; Buket Karadag; Gul Guler – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
The study used phenomenology to examine teacher candidates' metaphorical perceptions for measurement and evaluation practices in distance education. 210 teacher candidates at a foundation university in Istanbul were included in the study group. Researchers collected data using a three-part form. The first part gathered demographic information, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Figurative Language
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Perrine Hamel; Wei Kit Lee – Cogent Education, 2024
Authentic assessment -- where instructors create a realistic, cognitively challenging learning environment -- is critical in environmental science education. However, academic staff insufficiently rely on best practices in authentic learning due to lack of knowledge or interest. Here, we evaluate existing frameworks to improve the authenticity of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education, Performance Based Assessment, Authentic Learning
Jennie Jarrett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and their corresponding entrustment supervision (ES) scales are an innovative education assessment model to provide authentic assessment and growth of health professions education learners. The overall goal of this work is to gain insight into the utility of an EPA framework for assessment within pharmacy…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Trust (Psychology), Supervision, Measures (Individuals)
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Robyn Yucel; Margaret A. L. Blackie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Authentic assessment is often narrowly framed as tasks that mirror workplace tasks, resulting in on overemphasis on generic workplace skills at the expense of disciplinary knowledge. We place disciplinary knowledge at the heart of authentic assessment and explore how authentic assessment across a programme can contribute to an authentic view of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Evaluation Methods, Science Education, Performance Based Assessment
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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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Bui, Hung Phu – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study investigates Vietnamese university EFL teachers' and students' beliefs and teachers' practices regarding classroom assessment. Data were collected from a questionnaire administered to 455 participants (104 teachers and 351 students), interviews with nine teachers and twelve students, and 18 observations of 90-min lessons in five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, College Faculty
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Beckie Bray Rankin; Nikki Prasad – NECTFL Review, 2024
Motivating students towards language learning includes embedding meaningful themes, communicative tasks, and authentic assessments. When voice and choice are held as essential qualities of the task, students invest in the resources to make meaning and express their own thoughts, thus moving us away from traditional assessments that emphasize…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Saher, Al-Sabbah; Ali, Al Momani Jehad; Amani, Darwish; Najwan, Fares – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
This study aimed to explore the effect of authentic and traditional assessment on students' performance in the field of health and educational sciences. Both qualitative and quantitative research designs were used in this study. Study used A questionnaire containing 20 items: 10 items represented traditional assessment and the other 10 represented…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Students
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Naomi L. Rahn; Leslie La Croix; Doohyun L. Shin; Meg Gravil; Ching-I Chen; Hollie Hix-Small; Samita Arora; Jennifer Grisham; Julie Harp Rutland; Zhen Chai; Ann M. Mickelson; Huichao Xie – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2024
Early childhood teacher candidates (TCs) need preparatory experiences using authentic assessments to inform their instructional practices with rural learners and their families. The shift to virtual field placements in response to COVID-19 restrictions pushed faculty in teacher preparation programs to reimagine how to engage TCs in meaningful…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Rural Schools
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Tanner, Marie; Pérez Prieto, Héctor – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The aim is to analyse how policy decisions about assessment practices influence what it means to be a student in a performative system. We examine an occasion where a previously mandatory national test became optional, and how students took the opportunity to try to change the school's decision about this. The study is based on student group…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment, Neoliberalism
Emilee Sides – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Community colleges are tasked with juggling multiple missions. They provide open access to education for adults in their community, work with industry partners to educate the local workforce, and provide relevant programming to the communities they serve. When compared with students at four-year institutions, community college students are older,…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Preferences, Andragogy, Student Attitudes
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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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Puertas, Eloi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2022
During the past COVID pandemic crisis, teachers of any level must adapt their teaching methodologies to an online learning environment. One of the fears most aspects was the course assessment. Nonetheless, a lot of teachers were attracted to using new tools, that previously exists on their online platforms. In Universitat de Barcelona learning was…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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