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Shuster, Kate – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Using the nationally representative, cohort-based data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02), this study employs multiple regression to examine the effects of exit exams on student achievement and school completion. This study finds that exit exams as a whole do not have substantial effects on student achievement in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests
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Plastow, N.; Spiliotopoulou, G.; Prior, S. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
Group projects are an established but debated pedagogical technique in higher education. The purpose of this study was to assess the appropriateness of combining individual and group marks in assessment. A mixed method design involving correlational and comparative elements was used. The sample included one cohort of students who completed a group…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Occupational Therapy, Comparative Testing
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Grunwald, Heidi; Peterson, Marvin W. – Research in Higher Education, 2003
A survey of seven institutions revealed that the institution's student assessment purposes, its administrative support patterns, and its faculty instructional impacts are significant predictors of faculty satisfaction with their institution's approach to and support for student assessment. External influences on, faculty uses, and perceived…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Research, Higher Education, Predictor Variables
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Roberts, Ros; Gott, Richard – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 2006
Performance assessment in the UK science General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) currently relies on pupil reports of their investigations. These are widely criticized. Written tests of procedural understanding could be used as an alternative, but what exactly do they measure? This paper describes small-scale research in which there was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Research, Student Characteristics
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Green, Anthony – Assessing Writing, 2005
The IELTS test is widely accepted by university admissions offices as evidence of English language ability. The test is also used to guide decisions about the amount of language study required for students to satisfy admissions requirements. Guidelines currently published by the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Writing Tests, Guidelines, English for Academic Purposes