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Passy Claire Wood; C. Deha Dogan – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2024
Assessment and evaluation are crucial to improving educational quality. Examining the opinions of teachers from various countries on in-class assessments can significantly enhance education systems. Similarities and differences in Uganda's and Turkey's educational systems justify comparing them. This study aimed to examine and compare the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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DeLuca, Christopher; Rickey, Nathan; Coombs, Andrew – Cogent Education, 2021
Classroom assessment dynamics are shaped by individual and local understandings of assessment (assessment micro-cultures), as well as common assessment beliefs and practices that stem from system-wide features, such as large-scale testing (assessment macro-cultures). Teachers' approaches to assessment reveal how they navigate assessment micro- and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education, Student Evaluation
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Babatunde, Simeon; El-Gohary, Hatem; Edwards, David – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: With the growth of entrepreneurship education adoption in higher education institutions (HEIs), the importance of assessments as a tool to gauge and enhance learning is of utmost importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence and appropriateness of current assessment methods for engineering and technology students in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, College Students, Engineering Education
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Fan, Xumei; Johnson, Robert; Liu, Jin; Zhang, Xuegang; Liu, Xiumei; Zhang, Tiejun – Frontiers of Education in China, 2019
The purpose of this study was to compare pre-service teachers' views of ethical issues in assessment practices in the US and China. Focus group interviews were conducted among 16 pre-service teachers from the US and 15 pre-service teachers from China. Results indicated that the inclusion of effort in grading is a key issue for the pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Benali, Mourad; Mak, Janice – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2022
With the ubiquity of digital technology in K-12 education, digital competency frameworks for teachers have been published over the past several years that range from local initiatives to international standards. This study aims to understand how teachers' digital competence is envisioned and implemented in an ecosystem of existing frameworks,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Digital Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Comparative Education
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Gam, Luong Thi Hong; Parry, Sharon; Hayden, Martin – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2018
Within Vietnam's higher education system, traditional norm-referenced approaches to student assessment continue to be widely adopted. Though the system is progressively being reformed with a view to achieving comparability with leading higher education systems globally, student assessment policies and practices have so far proven to be resistant…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
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Gamage, Kelum A. A.; Silva, Erandika K. de; Gunawardhana, Nanda – Education Sciences, 2020
Globally, the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise daily despite strict measures being adopted by many countries. Consequently, universities closed down to minimise the face-to-face contacts, and the majority of the universities are now conducting degree programmes through online delivery. Remote online delivery and assessment are novel…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Evaluation, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ackermann, Nicole; Siegfried, Christin – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Economic education is an essential prerequisite for coping with economic-characterised problems in various life spheres, especially with socio-economic problems in the societal sphere. Making informed and reasoned decisions on socio-economic problems requires domain-specific content knowledge and domain-specific argumentation skills. Economic…
Descriptors: German, Persuasive Discourse, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Socioeconomic Influences
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Pereira, Diana; Niklasson, Laila; Flores, Maria Assunção – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper aims at investigating students' perceptions about assessment, especially the ways in which it is put into practice. Data were collected through questionnaires in different programmes in Portugal and Sweden. In total, 173 students from Portugal and 72 from Sweden participated in the study. Findings showed that students had similar ideas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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Pettersson, Daniel; Prøitz, Tine Sophie; Forsberg, Eva – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
By analysing five separate OECD reviews of evaluation and assessment practices with Norway and Sweden as cases, our study illustrates different ways in which a specific international educational reasoning is blended into more context-based national education policies and, as such, works in parallel with internal reforms and agendas. It is evident…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, International Education, Educational Change
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van der Merwe, Nico; McChlery, Stuart; Visser, Sarah Susanna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
The paper adds to extant professional education literature by reflecting on apparent differences in pedagogy of similar professional programmes of study, allowing deeper insight into the unique strand of higher education influenced by the professions. A comparative international case study approach is adopted of an interpretive qualitative nature…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Tsagari, Dina – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2016
Many researchers have highlighted the central role that assessment plays in second language (L2) classrooms and have expressed the need for research into classroom-based language assessment (CBLA), an area that is gradually coming into its own in the field of language testing and assessment (e.g., Hasselgreen, 2008; Leung, 2014; Hill &…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Nah, Kwi-Ok – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
Child assessment practices in English and Korean preschools were compared by analysing data from interviews with educators, examples of child assessment, and official documents from each country. Child assessment in England was systematically implemented and characterised by several methodological and procedural strengths, whereas assessment in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Interviews
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Hao, Shiqi; Johnson, Robert L. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
This study, through multilevel analyses of the data of four English-speaking nations (i.e., Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States) from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2001 database, investigated the relationship between teachers' uses of various types of classroom assessments and their fourth-graders'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, International Education, Comparative Education
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
The TIMSS 2011 International Database includes data for all questionnaires administered as part of the TIMSS 2011 assessment. This supplement contains the international version of the TIMSS 2011 background questionnaires and curriculum questionnaires in the following 10 sections: (1) Fourth Grade Student Questionnaire; (2) Fourth Grade Home…
Descriptors: Background, Questionnaires, Test Items, Grade 4
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