The computer-supported writing assessment (CSWA) has been widely used to reduce instructor workload and provide real-time feedback. Interpretability of CSWA draws extensive attention because it can benefit the validity, transparency, and knowledge-aware feedback of academic writing assessments. This study proposes a novel assessment tool,…

The process of giving official acknowledgment to formal, informal and non-formal prior learning is commonly labelled as assessment, accreditation or recognition of prior learning (APL), representing a practice that is expanding in higher education in many countries. This paper focuses specifically on the assessment part of APL, which undoubtedly…

This paper describes quality enhancement (QE) focused response to the 2006 National Student Survey (NSS) by a post-1992 Higher Education Institution. Recognising the increasing importance of the NSS to a wide range of stakeholders, the University established a task team to explore, from a QE perspective, why the institution received particular…

Scores on cognitive tests have been very widely reported to have increased through the decades of the last century, a generational phenomenon termed the "Flynn Effect" since it was most comprehensively documented by James Flynn in the 1980's. There has, however, been very little evidence concerning any continuity of the effect…

As more colleges move to "test optional" admissions policies, the debate over the utility and interpretation of standardized-test scores continues. In this article, the author interviews Daniel Koretz, a professor of education at Harvard University and author of "Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us". Koretz…

A questionnaire study revealed more diversity in testing practices that is commonly realized. (Editor)

Describes a course model for counselor education programs which focuses on competency in the interpretation of individually administered psychoeducational tests and reports. Includes information on development of the course, competencies and skills taught, course content and procedures, and course evaluation. (LLL)

The use of weekly quizzes does not appear to improve student learning or motivation. (HS)

Enchanced effectiveness in teaching and learning can be achieved when tests are used as helps rather than merely as hurdles. (Editor)

Takahiro Sato, a Japanese engineer, has developed a method to study the composition of an objective test by finding out how individual students are responding to the test's items and by summarizing this information in a single index. The Student-Problem Chart is discussed. (MLW)

Examined the relationships of Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Scales for occupational choice, academic comfort, introversion-extroversion, and response style in a population of university students (N=2,113) who sought vocational counseling. Results showed that the scales were more interrelated than expected, and suggested that a smaller range…

Suggests that when a students' response style is greatly skewed, the occupational scales reflect the pattern of the test construction. Correlating that pattern with students' actual profiles showed the common variance may average 35 percent when a predominance of one response reaches 60 percent. (JAC)

Student prepared questions were used in this examination experiment that proved quite beneficial to student learning. (HS)