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Juuso Henrik Nieminen; Eeva Haataja; Peter J. Cobb – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study examines how authentic assessment could nurture students' epistemic agency: their sense of agency in using, evaluating and producing knowledge. Authentic assessment commonly emphasises 'realism' and 'employability skills'. As important as these ideas are, this approach to authentic assessment neglects the key academic value of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Performance Based Assessment, Epistemology, Realism
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Bronwen Cowie – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
Assessment makes visible what we value and reciprocally what is assessed tends to become what is taken to be of value. Building on this, it can be argued that assessment does more than measure what is present rather it 'makes up' people. This piece offers a reflective commentary some of the insights to be gained from the Research Analysis and…
Descriptors: National Standards, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Cook, Paul – Journal of Management Education, 2022
Improving perceptions of graduate utility is fundamental to Higher Education's employability and skills agenda. However, utility enhancement is a ubiquitous consequence of all learning. Therefore, motivating students to engage in deep learning to improve their utility is problematic. Using the student voice, in this article, I explain how prompts…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Management Development, Time Perspective, Disadvantaged
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Freiermuth, Mark, Ed.; Zarrinabadi, Nourollah, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2020
This edited volume brings together large-scale research as well as case studies from a range of geographical contexts and represents a variety of educational settings involving second language learners and users. Its aim is to explore the interrelated issues of psychology and technology use in second language learning settings as well as in more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies, Technology Uses in Education
Lawrence, Arul A. S. – Online Submission, 2015
The XX IDEA annual conference has been focused and reflected on different ways and means of meeting various kinds of methodological challenges, new technologies and multi-media developments, newly emerging partnerships and collaboration between emerging sectors on one hand and between the institutions functioning with similar objectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Barriers
Kim, JinGyu; McLean, James E. – 1995
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of test motivation on estimated ability, test anxiety, and attitudes toward computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Korean college students (n=208) were given the Math Aptitude Test, Math Self-Concept Scale, Math Test Anxiety Scale, Computer Competence Instrument, Computer Anxiety Scale, and…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, College Students