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Chunhua Liu; Panwang Yang – European Journal of Education, 2024
Student satisfaction in online live classes is considered an important criterion to evaluate the effectiveness of this instructional system. This study aims to develop a performance evaluation index to measure the satisfaction of students who have mastered Chinese language and literature through online live classes. Guided by survey techniques and…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, Performance Based Assessment, Chinese
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Shashi Nallaya; Sheridan Gentili; Scott Weeks; Katherine Baldock – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Various factors such as regulatory body mandates, graduate employability challenges, decreasing student engagement and increasing academic misconduct in higher education have motivated universities to explore alternative approaches to teach and assess. Accordingly, the oral assessment has taken precedence in many contexts as a popular form of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Cheating, Higher Education
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Stephanie Baines; Pauldy Otermans; David Tree; Nicholas Worsfold – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Authentic assessments are seen as a promising response to many of the challenges currently facing Higher Education. Studies have identified shared characteristics of authentic assessments, but it is also argued that the term is vague and subjective. Drawing on existing frameworks we have established a standardised measure to evaluate authenticity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Performance Based Assessment
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Gitomer, Drew H.; Martínez, José Felipe; Battey, Dan; Hyland, Nora E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
The Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) is a system of standardized portfolio assessments of teaching performance mandated for use by educator preparation programs in 18 states, and approved in 21 others, as part of initial certification for preservice teachers. Because of the high stakes involved for examinees, it is critical that…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Musselwhite, Dorothy J.; Wesolowski, Brian C. – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
The Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) is a widely implemented performance assessment in the United States used to indicate the readiness of pre-service teachers to enter the classroom and the level of pre-service teacher preparation supported by individual colleges of education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Preservice Teachers
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Amirhossein Rasooli; Jim Turner; Tünde Varga-Atkins; Edd Pitt; Shaghayegh Asgari; Will Moindrot – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Groupwork is a crucial aspect of work contexts and a key twenty first century skill. Assessment of groupwork provides a persistent challenge for educators in university contexts with students reporting experiences of unfairness from their peers during groupwork. This study developed a novel Peer Assessment Fairness Instrument to explore factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
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Hakelind, Camilla; Sundström, Anna E. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2022
Finding valid and reliable ways to assess complex clinical skills within psychology is a challenge. Recently, there have been some examples of applying Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) in psychology for making such assessments. The aim of this study was to examine students' and examiners' perceptions of a digital OSCE in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Clinical Psychology, Student Evaluation
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Bearman, Margaret; Ajjawi, Rola; Bennett, Sue; Boud, David – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) have become ubiquitous as a form of assessment in medical education but involve substantial resource demands and considerable local variation. A detailed understanding of the processes by which OSCEs are designed and administered could improve feasibility and sustainability. This exploration of…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Medical Education, Test Construction, Testing
Patrick C. Kyllonen; Amit Sevak; Teresa Ober; Ikkyu Choi; Jesse Sparks; Daniel Fishtein – ETS Research Institute, 2024
Assessment refers to a broad array of approaches for measuring or evaluating a person's (or group of persons') skills, behaviors, dispositions, or other attributes. Assessments range from standardized tests used in admissions, employee selection, licensure examinations, and domestic and international largescale assessments of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Test Bias
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Phelps, Geoffrey; Bridgeman, Brent; Yan, Fred; Steinberg, Jonathan; Weren, Barbara; Zhou, Jiawen – ETS Research Report Series, 2020
In this report we provide preliminary evidence on the measurement characteristics for a new type of teaching performance assessment designed to be combined with complementary assessments of teacher content knowledge. The resulting test, which we refer to as the Foundational Assessment of Competencies for Teaching (FACT), is designed for use as…
Descriptors: Teacher Competency Testing, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Certification
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Cato, Heather – English in Texas, 2020
In 2016, with mounting pressure from parents, educators, and other stakeholders around the state pushing back against the volume of standardized tests students are required to take, the Texas Education Agency introduced the Texas Writing Pilot. This pilot was designed to study the feasibility of creating an alternative writing assessment that…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Pilot Projects, Evaluation Methods
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Putnam, Tara; Newton, Maria; Brusseau, Timothy; Burns, Ryan; Ziegenfuss, Donna; Franklin, Julia – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2021
Assessing teacher competence is a central focus of the growth and development of physical education teacher candidates. For subject matter competency, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation adopted Specialized Professional Associations (SPAs) for each academic discipline, which are used to establish specific standards and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Teacher Competencies
Shute, Valerie J.; Rahimi, Seyedahmad – Grantee Submission, 2021
Creativity has been of research interest to psychologists dating back many decades, and is currently recognized as one of the essential skills needed to succeed in our complex, interconnected world. One medium that has affordances to assess and support creativity in young people is video games. In this paper, we briefly discuss the literature on…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Physics, Educational Games
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Stacey, Meghan; Talbot, Debra; Buchanan, John; Mayer, Diane – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
The requirement for all Initial Teacher Education programs in Australia to include a capstone teacher performance assessment (TPA) is relatively new. However, TPAs are common in other countries, particularly the United States. In this article, we report on a review of the literature instigated by the authors' involvement in the development of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teacher Education
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Shavelson, Richard J.; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Beck, Klaus; Schmidt, Susanne; Marino, Julian P. – International Journal of Testing, 2019
Following employers' criticisms and recent societal developments, policymakers and educators have called for students to develop a range of generic skills such as critical thinking ("twenty-first century skills"). So far, such skills have typically been assessed by student self-reports or with multiple-choice tests. An alternative…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cognitive Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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