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Liandi van den Berg – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2025
Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) and the sudden shift to online learning, higher education institutions adopted various approaches to reduce cheating in online assessments, mainly involving online live proctoring (OLP). The international assessment integrity regulation trend also applied to a university in South Africa, where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
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Alex Buckley – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Despite a large amount of critical research literature, traditional examinations continue to be widely used in higher education. This article reviews recent literature in order to assess the role played by the approaches adopted by researchers in the gap between research on exams, and the way exams are used. Viviane Robinson's 'problem-based…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Testing, Higher Education, Testing Problems
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Juan Mendelsohn Ontong; Mareli Rossouw – Cogent Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of providing extra time as an accommodation to students with learning disabilities (LD) in higher education institutions. The results, which are based in the setting of a South African accountancy programme, provides a unique context where time, in time-constrained assessments, are often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Mücahit Öztürk – Open Praxis, 2024
This study examined the problems that pre-service teachers face in the online assessment process and their suggestions for solutions to these problems. The participants were 136 pre-service teachers who have been experiencing online assessment for a long time and who took the Foundations of Open and Distance Learning course. This research is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Distance Education
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Reddy, Leelakrishna; Letswalo, Machaba Leanyatsa; Sefage, Amanda Percy; Kheswa, Bonginkosi Vincent; Balakrishna, Avula; Changundega, Jesman Moreblessing; Mvelase, Mashinga Johannes; Kheswa, Khayelihle Allen; Majola, Siyabonga Ntokozo Thandoluhle; Mathe, Themba; Seakamela, Teffo; Nemakhavhani, Thendo Emmanuel – Pedagogical Research, 2022
Integrity and quality of assessments on the online platform should be upheld to ensure that it supports student learning as well as the efficacy of teaching because in the end it measures the reputation of an institution. How institutions have traversed such domains remains a grey area. This paper provides anecdotal insights into how staff from a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Cheating, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Glory Tobiason; Adrienne Lavine – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2025
Current methods for evaluating faculty teaching fall short, and one way to address this is through campus-wide initiatives that focus on change at the level of academic units. The complex context of higher education makes meaningful teaching evaluation difficult; in particular, four sobering realities of this context must be taken into account in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Testing Problems, Educational Change
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Ocak, Gürbüz; Karakus, Gülçin – Themes in eLearning, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic, which affected every aspect of life around the world, has led to radical changes in teaching and learning methods. It is no longer healthy for students being together for a long time in classroom. For this reason, online education applications have started to be implemented rapidly around the world. Not only the education…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Computer Assisted Testing
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Ruth Nelson; Kristen Nichols-Besel; Sarah Tahtinen-Pacheco – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2024
The number of immigrant and international multilingual learners enrolling in postsecondary education is on the rise. With this growth, there remain difficulties in identifying and supporting multilingual learners moving from K-12 to college due to demographic data collection procedures at the postsecondary level. Postsecondary institutions are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, College Students, Urban Universities
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Rezai, Afsheen; Alibakhshi, Gudarz; Farokhipour, Sajjad; Miri, Mowla – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
This study aims to disclose the Iranian university teachers' perceptions of the fundamentals of language assessment literacy (LAL). To this aim, using purposive sampling, eighteen university teachers from two Iranian universities were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Their viewpoints were audio-recorded, transcribed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phenomenology, Alternative Assessment, Testing Problems
Atehortua, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Intelligence tests are used in a variety of settings such as schools, clinics, and courts to assess the intellectual capacity of individuals of all ages. Intelligence tests are used to make high-stakes decisions such as special education placement, employment, eligibility for social security services, and determination of the death penalty.…
Descriptors: Adults, Intelligence Tests, Children, Error of Measurement
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Robert Powell, Sean; Parkes, Kelly A. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2020
In this article, we analyze the edTPA as an instance of "performativity," as we argue that the edTPA is a "display" of quality for the purposes of incentive, control, attrition, and change. These displays are moments of productivity that boil down the complex act of teaching to a number, which can be audited by policy makers.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Neoliberalism, Performance
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Phuong Ai Ngoc Doan; Chatraporn Piamsai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Studies on washback of not only international standardized proficiency tests, but also localized high-stakes tests have been increasingly attracting considerable interest. The current study explores the washback effects of a Vietnam-made localized English proficiency test named "Vietnamese Standardized Test of English Proficiency, level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vietnamese, Testing Problems, Language Tests
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Haladyna, Thomas M.; Rodriguez, Michael C.; Stevens, Craig – Applied Measurement in Education, 2019
The evidence is mounting regarding the guidance to employ more three-option multiple-choice items. From theoretical analyses, empirical results, and practical considerations, such items are of equal or higher quality than four- or five-option items, and more items can be administered to improve content coverage. This study looks at 58 tests,…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Testing Problems, Guessing (Tests)
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Camenares, Devin – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Balancing assessment of learning outcomes with the expectations of students is a perennial challenge in education. Difficult exams, in which many students perform poorly, exacerbate this problem and can inspire a wide variety of interventions, such as a grading curve. However, addressing poor performance can sometimes distort or inflate grades and…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Tests, Test Items
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Julia Carnine; Cristina Pérez Calleja – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
In a unique learning context, language-positive environments outside the classroom, not enclosed instruction on U.S. campuses, education abroad foreign language instructors develop distinct teaching practices. Education abroad researchers have accounted for informal learning opportunities, yet few have attended to onsite language instruction. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction, Educational Innovation
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