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Direct linkSchweitzer, Friedrich; Osbeck, Christina; Räsänen, Antti; Rutkowski, Mirjam; Schnaufer, Evelyn – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
This article addresses two current debates that have generated increasing interest in a number of countries but have rarely been considered together: the debate on religious and interreligious literacy and the debate on the assessment of the outcomes of Religious Education (RE). Against this background, both debates are reviewed and critically…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Literacy, Outcomes of Education, Religious Factors
Practices in Instrument Use and Development in "Chemistry Education Research and Practice" 2010-2021
Lazenby, Katherine; Tenney, Kristin; Marcroft, Tina A.; Komperda, Regis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Assessment instruments that generate quantitative data on attributes (cognitive, affective, behavioral, "etc.") of participants are commonly used in the chemistry education community to draw conclusions in research studies or inform practice. Recently, articles and editorials have stressed the importance of providing evidence for the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Periodicals, Journal Articles, Science Education
Szeibert, Janka; Muzsnay, Anna; Szabó, Csaba; Bereczky-Zámbó, Csilla Gyöngyvér – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Retrieving information from memory can--under many circumstances--strengthen one's memory of the retrieved information itself. The strategic use of retrieval to enhance memory and help long-term retention is known as retrieval practice. However, it is unclear whether its effect also holds true in the case of learning mathematics. This research is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Testing, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap
Oh, Julie H. J.; Basma, Badriah; Bertone, Armando; Luk, Gigi – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
Learning to read marks an important milestone in children. Extensive research with monolingual and bilingual children has demonstrated that language comprehension (LC) forms fundamental building blocks for reading comprehension (RC). However, mixed findings are reported among studies that compare readings skills in children with and without…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests
Brown, Christopher P.; Barry, David P. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Over the last two decades, policymakers' standards-based accountability reforms in the United States have fundamentally changed public schooling in general and kindergarten specifically. As this has occurred, little has been learned about how the children themselves make sense of these changes in schooling.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Student Experience, Student Attitudes
Dueck, Myron – ASCD, 2021
Assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning, but too often it leads to misleading conclusions--sometimes with dire consequences for students. How can educators improve assessment practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful, informative, and fair? Educator and best-selling author Myron Dueck draws from his firsthand…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Participation, Testing
Sametrian Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A school in Virginia serves students with significant cognitive disabilities (SWSCDs) whose full scale IQ scores are 40 and below. The problem is the SWSCDs were administered the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program (VAAP) and did not perform well from 2017 to 2019. As a result, the school did not receive state accreditation. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Alternative Assessment, Students with Disabilities
Borgonovi, Francesca – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Data from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) of schooled populations indicate that boys have considerably poorer literacy skills than girls. New evidence from a household-based ILSA--Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)--indicates that the gender gap in literacy is negligible, even though…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Would You Bribe Your Lecturer? A Quasi-Experimental Study on Burnout and Bribery in Higher Education
Weißmüller, Kristina S.; De Waele, Lode – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Bribery is a complex and critical issue in higher education (HE), causing severe economic and societal harm. Traditionally, most scholarship on HE corruption has focused on institutional factors in developing countries and insights into the psychological and motivational factors that drive HE bribery on the micro-level mechanisms are virtually…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, College Students, Antisocial Behavior
Download full textGao, Zhikai; Erickson, Bradley; Xu, Yiqiao; Lynch, Collin; Heckman, Sarah; Barnes, Tiffany – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2022
Demand for education in Computer Science has increased markedly in recent years. With increased demand has come to an increased need for student support, especially for courses with large programming projects. Instructors commonly provide online post forums or office hours to address this massive demand for help requests. Identifying what types of…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Help Seeking, College Faculty, Teacher Role
Huhtiniemi, Mikko; Sääkslahti, Arja; Tolvanen, Asko; Watt, Anthony; Jaakkola, Timo – European Physical Education Review, 2022
Despite the prominence of fitness testing in school physical education (PE), there is a sparsity of research examining the antecedents of students' affective experiences during fitness testing lessons. This study aimed to investigate the associations among task- and ego-involving motivational climates, perceived physical competence, physical…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Environment, Competence, Physical Fitness
Deliveli, Kismet – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
The present phenomenological study aims to understand, through images and metaphors, how senior class teaching majors perceive their studies at the faculty of education. The study group was assembled via criterion sampling, a method of purposive sampling. The study group consists of 12 senior class teaching majors (10 females and 2 males) from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, College Seniors, Student Teacher Attitudes
Florida Department of Education, 2020
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented in this paper are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection and use of appropriate…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Adult Education, Students with Disabilities, Testing Accommodations
Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2017
Person-fit assessment (PFA) is concerned with uncovering atypical test performance as reflected in the pattern of scores on individual items on a test. Existing person-fit statistics (PFSs) include both parametric and nonparametric statistics. Comparison of PFSs has been a popular research topic in PFA, but almost all comparisons have employed…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Testing, Test Items, Scores
