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Timmermans, A. C.; de Wolf, I. F.; Bosker, R. J.; Doolaard, S. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2015
A recent development in educational accountability is a risk-based approach, in which intensity and frequency of school inspections vary across schools to make educational accountability more efficient and effective by enabling inspectorates to focus on organizations at risk. Characteristics relevant in predicting which schools are "at risk…
Descriptors: Accountability, Inspection, Underachievement, Achievement Gains
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Yancey, Kathleen Blake – Theory Into Practice, 2015
How does one grade an electronic portfolio? This question is one I have thought about, have enacted, and have written about, primarily in reference to ePortfolios used in writing classrooms (Yancey, McElroy, & Powers, 2013). But what happens when the content and developmental levels are changed, in this case from an undergraduate first-year…
Descriptors: Grading, Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing, Teaching Methods
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Sealey, Rebecca M.; Raymond, Jacqueline; Groeller, Herb; Rooney, Kieron; Crabb, Meagan; Watt, Kerrianne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
The continued engagement of the professional workforce as supervisors is critical for the sustainability and growth of work-integrated learning activities in university degrees. This study investigated factors that influence the willingness and ability of clinicians to continue to supervise clinical exercise physiology work-integrated learning…
Descriptors: Supervision, Exercise Physiology, Workplace Learning, Surveys
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O'Reilly, Tenaha; Deane, Paul; Sabatini, John – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
In this paper we provide the rationale and foundation for the building and sharing knowledge key practice for the "CBAL"™ English language arts competency model. Building and sharing knowledge is a foundational literacy activity that enables students to learn and communicate what they read in texts. It is a strategic process that…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Instruction, Knowledge Level, Cognitive Measurement
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Van Damme, Dirk – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In this paper, I argue for more and better learning metrics in higher education, eventually through an international, comparative assessment of students' learning outcomes. Better learning measures may help to improve transparency in the system by addressing the information asymmetry problem. If not addressed adequately, the lack of transparency…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Hidayat, Muhammad; Musa, Chalid Imran; Haerani, Siti; Sudirman, Indrianti – International Education Studies, 2015
This research is intended to develop curriculum based on entrepreneurship through balanced scorecard approach at the School of Business or "Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi" (STIE) Nobel Indonesia. In order to develop the curriculum, a need analysis in terms of curriculum development that involves all stakeholders at STIE Nobel in Indonesia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Entrepreneurship, Needs Assessment
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Choi, Jaehwa; Kang, Miseon; Kim, Najung; Dardick, William; Zhang, Xinxin – Journal of Educational Issues, 2015
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in mathematics are currently adopted in most U.S. states. Nonetheless, most math teachers across the country are still experiencing difficulties in putting these standards into practice. Teachers and local school administrators are faced with a challenge of adapting methodologies in instruction and assessment…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Workbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Formative Evaluation
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Sullivan, Daniel; Watson, Sharon – Journal of Educational Issues, 2015
The scale and scope of online education increasingly expand. In tandem, interest grows among educators and scholars in understanding the personal and contextual factors that moderate the efficient design and effective delivery of an online course. This paper looks at a theoretically robust method, peer assessment administered by the Canvas…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Blended Learning, Online Courses, Educational Technology
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Harshman, Jordan; Yezierski, Ellen – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Data-driven inquiry (DDI) is the process by which teachers design and implement classroom assessments and use student results to inform/adjust teaching. Although much has been written about DDI, few details exist about how teachers conduct this process on a day-to-day basis in any specific subject area, let alone chemistry. Nineteen high school…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Secondary School Science, High Schools
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Scahill, Lawrence; Aman, Michael G.; Lecavalier, Luc; Halladay, Alycia K.; Bishop, Somer L.; Bodfish, James W.; Grondhuis, Sabrina; Jones, Nancy; Horrigan, Joseph P.; Cook, Edwin H.; Handen, Benjamin L.; King, Bryan H.; Pearson, Deborah A.; McCracken, James T.; Sullivan, Katherine Anne; Dawson, Geraldine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Restricted interests and repetitive behaviors vary widely in type, frequency, and intensity among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. They can be stigmatizing and interfere with more constructive activities. Accordingly, restricted interests and repetitive behaviors may be a target of intervention. Several standardized…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Problems, Repetition
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Reese, Debbie Denise – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
The "Selene: A Lunar Construction GaME" instructional video game is a robust research environment (institutional review board approved) for investigating learning, affect, and the CyGaMEs Metaphorics approach to instructional video game design, embedded assessment, and informatics analysis and reporting. CyGaMEs applies analogical…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Research, Design
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Dominguez, Caroline; Nascimento, Maria M.; Payan-Carreira, Rita; Cruz, Gonçalo; Silva, Helena; Lopes, José; Morais, Maria da Felicidade A.; Morais, Eva – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Considering the results of research on the benefits and difficulties of peer review, this paper describes how teaching faculty, interested in endorsing the acquisition of communication and critical thinking (CT) skills among engineering students, has been implementing a learning methodology throughout online peer review activities. While…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Critical Thinking, Peer Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication
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Umer, Muhammad; Omer, Abdul Majeed Attayib – English Language Teaching, 2015
The effect of standardised and summative assessment on teaching and learning has been explored in various settings. Formative assessment or classroom assessment, however, has not captured considerable attention of washback researchers. The prime goal of the inclusion of formative assessment in the assessment regime of a curriculum is to allow…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Anthony, Glenda; McLachlan, Claire; Lim Fock Poh, Rachel – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
Narratives that capture children's learning as they go about their day-to-day activities are promoted as a powerful assessment tool within early childhood settings. However, in the New Zealand context, there is increasing concern that learning stories--the preferred form of narrative assessment--currently downplay domain knowledge. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Education, Narration, Evaluation Methods
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Kragten, Marco; Admiraal, Wilfried; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Process diagrams describe how a system functions (e.g. photosynthesis) and are an important type of representation in Biology education. In the present study, we examined students' learning activities while studying process diagrams, related to their resulting comprehension of these diagrams. Each student completed three learning tasks. Verbal…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Biology, Science Activities, Visual Aids
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