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Validity Aspects in Measuring Evolution Acceptance: Evidence from Surveys of Preservice Biology Teachers and Creationists
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Beniermann, Anna; Moormann, Alexandra; Fiedler, Daniela – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Over the past decades, a large body of research has examined students' magnitudes of evolution acceptance and related measurement issues resulting in questions concerning instruments' validity and operationalization. Until now, several studies investigated validity aspects of often-used evolution acceptance instruments and came to diverging…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology, Evolution
On the Complementarity of Holistic and Analytic Approaches to Performance Assessment Scoring
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Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Shavelson, Richard J.; Schmidt, Susanne; Beck, Klaus – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: A holistic approach to performance assessment recognizes the theoretical complexity of multifaceted critical thinking (CT), a key objective of higher education. However, issues related to reliability, interpretation, and use arise with this approach. Aims and Method: Therefore, we take an analytic approach to scoring students' written…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Performance Based Assessment, Critical Thinking, College Students
Validating Process Variables of Sourcing in an Assessment of Multiple Document Comprehension
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Hahnel, Carolin; Kroehne, Ulf; Goldhammer, Frank; Schoor, Cornelia; Mahlow, Nina; Artelt, Cordula – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: With digital technologies, competence assessments can provide process data, such as mouse clicks with corresponding timestamps, as additional information about the skills and strategies of test takers. However, in order to use variables generated from process data sensibly for educational purposes, their interpretation needs to be…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Test Interpretation, Foreign Countries, College Students
Validating the Interpretations of PISA and TIMSS Tasks: A Rating Study
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Rindermann, Heiner; Baumeister, Antonia E. E. – International Journal of Testing, 2015
Scholastic tests regard cognitive abilities to be domain-specific competences. However, high correlations between competences indicate either high task similarity or a dependence on common factors. The present rating study examined the validity of 12 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Third or Trends in International…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Interpretation, Competence, Reading Tests
The Style Test.
Bonheim, Helmut – 1981
Several formats for testing English style are described and discussed. The questions are taken from eight versions of the Cologne placement test for beginning university students and a test battery designed for the German Academic Exchange Service. The first two formats are a multiple choice question and a paragraph with underlined words and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Skills, Rhetoric
Students' Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education: Experiences from Four European Countries and Some Implications of the Practice.
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Husbands, Christopher T.; Fosh, Patricia – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1993
Discussion of student evaluation of college teaching in four European countries (United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Germany) focuses on concerns about test bias. Factors specific to the higher education systems in those countries that could affect student evaluation and other related issues are examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Comparative Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
First Grade Minimum Skills Testing of German and American Children. Prufen der l. Klasse grundschulerischen Minimalgeschicklichkeiten von deutschen und amerikanischen Kindern.
Hanson, Irene – 1980
The Mann-Suiter Developmental Screening Tests were administered individually to 79 German and American first grade students in their native languages. The subtests, which examined minimum skills necessary for school success, were used to develop a profile of each child's strengths and weaknesses in visual, auditory, and language areas. Children…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Research