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Eaton, Annelise – Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2020
Educators have long recognized that students gain important skills through real-world learning, which frequently takes place outside school hours or school walls. In Boston and Providence, after-school program leaders engaged in a bold experiment to formally recognize these skills through an innovative credential called a digital badge. For two…
Descriptors: Credentials, Recognition (Achievement), Information Storage, Experiential Learning
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Topping, Keith – Education Sciences, 2021
The present paper offers a definition of peer assessment and then reviews the major syntheses on its effectiveness. However, the main part of this paper is preoccupied with how to do PA successfully. A typology of 44 elements explains the differences between the many types of peer assessment. Then a theoretical model outlines some of the processes…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Definitions, Program Effectiveness, Models
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Shilibekova, Aidana; Tursynova, Laila; Ziyedenova, Dinara; Vildanova, Saule; Yerkinova, Assem; Yessingeldinov, Baurzhan – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2020
This article presents the Center for Pedagogical Measurements' experience of assessment procedures transformative challenge when the COVID-19 was unfolding across the world and when there was no ready scenario that could guide online instruction and assessment as well. The authors of the article have provided the cases of adaptive responses and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Marshal Conley, Contributor; Catherine Green, Contributor; Michelle Perry, Contributor; Claudette Rasmussen, Contributor – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2014
This tool is a simplified version of the evaluation framework developed by Wenger, Trayner, and de Laat (2011), building upon Kirkpatrick (1976, 1994). These internationally recognized experts on professional learning and collaboration developed their value creation framework to address the dual challenges of attending to the diversity of types of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Professional Education
Ackerman, Debra J.; Coley, Richard J. – Educational Testing Service, 2012
Preschool education is increasingly being recognized as an integral part of efforts to ensure that all children enter school ready to learn and as a way to help close the achievement gaps that exist at the time children enter kindergarten. Such efforts are growing across the country. According to the most recent data, 54 different preschool…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Student Evaluation, Preschool Education, Young Children
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Hyvarinen, Marja-Leena; Tanskanen, Paavo; Katajavuori, Nina; Isotalus, Pekka – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
One central task in higher education is to provide students with interpersonal communication competence in their profession. To achieve this, specialised training, based on an understanding of disciplinary communication practices and appropriate assessment methods, is needed. However, there is a lack of reliable assessment instruments which are…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Criteria, Teaching Methods
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Thomson, Rosemary – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
Assessment expectations are communicated to students in various ways and at different points in the semester. The provision of written information in learning guides given to students at the start of semester articulates what they are to do and how well they are to perform in assessment tasks. This paper examines how assessment expectations at an…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Feedback (Response), Portfolio Assessment, Teacher Expectations of Students
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Tillema, Harm; Leenknecht, Martijn; Segers, Mien – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
The interest in "assessment for learning" (AfL) has resulted in a search for new modes of assessment that are better aligned to students' learning how to learn. However, with the introduction of new assessment tools, also questions arose with respect to the quality of its measurement. On the one hand, the appropriateness of traditional,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Criteria, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness
Cady, Jennifer R. – Online Submission, 2011
Despite the vast array of educational practices that are present in today's society, grading is one practice that has established a historical foundation and one that will continue to be an important aspect to the profession of education. This small scale study determined that both undergraduate and graduate learners, in one college instructor's…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Measures (Individuals), Grading, Graduate Students
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Redelius, Karin; Hay, Peter J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The pedagogical and status implications of assessment in physical education (PE) have been recognised in the past. How students perceive being assessed and graded is a neglected area, however. While some studies have garnered students' perceptions of assessment when no grade is awarded or the stakes are relatively low, we know less…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Focus Groups
O'Connor, Ken – Education Canada, 2010
Over the last 10 to 15 years, each province and territory in Canada has introduced curriculum based on clearly defined learning goals. They use different labels--for example, "learning outcomes" in Manitoba and Alberta, "expectations" in Ontario--but all are intended to be "standards-based" systems where the focus is…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Recognition (Achievement), Grades (Scholastic), Grading
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Smith, Kari – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
A prerequisite for AfL to be successfully implemented in the classroom is the teachers' assessment practice. In many contexts, including the Norwegian, AfL has not been successfully dealt with during initial teacher education, and there is a need for qualified teachers to engage in professional development in AfL. This article first discusses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Research and Development, Teacher Improvement
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Jessen, Anna; Elander, James – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
This paper reports three studies about preparing Further Education (FE) students for the transition to Higher Education (HE) by improving their understanding of HE assessment criteria. In study 1, students and tutors in both FE and HE were interviewed for a qualitative analysis of their understandings and expectations about assessment criteria. In…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Adult Education
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Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal; Phelan, Pat – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2012
This paper presents the response of the technology teacher education programmes at the University of Limerick to the assessment challenge created by the shift in philosophy of the Irish national curriculum from a craft-based focus to design-driven education. This study observes two first year modules of the undergraduate programmes that focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, National Curriculum, Handicrafts
Barnett, W. Steven; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Brown, Kirsty; Squires, Jim; Horowitz, Michelle – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2016
This report explores the extent to which states (and several large cities) are positioned to provide high quality preschool education on a large scale. States and cities that are already doing so or that could do so with modest improvements offer opportunities for advocacy to advance access to high quality early education as well as for rigorous…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
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