Despite efforts to implement innovative approaches such as flipped learning leveraging computer technology, the challenge of student failure persists. Understanding the factors that contribute to student success in flipped engineering courses remains a critical issue. This study addresses this issue by investigating the impact of student…

Exemplary public school library programs need to have measures in place to determine overall effectiveness. The quality of the school library program is dependent on the effectiveness of the school librarian. Given the uncertainty of the role of school librarians and the inadequacy of evaluations for them, we present a practical solution for these…

Translation evaluation, assessment and criticism are widely studied concepts referring to quality control and enhancement in both professional translation and translation training. However, there is still a need for translator trainers to develop a specific competence in translation assessment in the academic context, since they must provide…

Assessment in health and physical education (HPE) courses is necessary to guide teacher planning, inform students of their learning progress, and communicate student learning. However, teachers face many challenges in adapting quality assessment practices, and narratives emerging from students' post-participation in HPE indicate that students…

Formative assessments, such as exit tickets, are effective tools for enhancing student reflection and understanding. While prevalent in K-12 education, their application in higher education remains underexplored. This study investigates the implementation of exit tickets in an undergraduate Principles of Marketing course, aiming to evaluate their…

Purpose: Assessing complex skills is considered important but challenging. This study focused on developing assessment items to evaluate secondary social science students' proficiency in the subskill of causal analysis. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a conceptual framework of social scientific reasoning, we designed formative assessment…

In the evolving techno-educational landscape, it is crucial to reimagine transformative pedagogies based on techno-teacher collaboration to revolutionize teaching effectiveness and efficiency. Although the cutting-edge generative AI tool, Chat GPT, is speculated to be a revolutionary CALL (computer-assisted language learning) tool for teaching…

Universities are increasingly employing part-time teachers who are experts in their field but may lack the pedagogical training crucial for teaching and assessment. Assessment, in turn, is a key factor in promoting students' learning. Research on part-time university teachers is limited, and the assessment conceptions informing their teaching have…

Formative assessment is a key instructional practice for implementing evidence-based teaching, with research demonstrating its potential to enhance student learning. However, conducting formative assessments in large college classrooms with hundreds of students poses significant challenges, particularly in noticing, interpreting, and addressing…

This study explored the mediating roles of interest in broad science topics (IBST) on the effects of students' perceptions of teachers' formative assessment on science achievement, using data from PISA 2015. We focused on 9,841 15-year-old students from Mainland (B-S-J-G) China. The results revealed that: (1) a classical suppression effect, where…

Formative assessment is an important dimension of teaching reform, and so introducing formative assessment into teaching is of great importance for transforming students' performance. It is also important to explore teachers' understanding and practices of formative assessment. The present research therefore examined how university English…

"Self-directed learning" and "student-centred learning" are key theoretical constructs in the educational literature. However, to date, the similarities and differences between these terms have not been examined. This paper therefore provides a historical overview of both constructs, followed by an analysis of the similarities…

We investigated the impact in ninth-grade mathematics classrooms of Proficiency-based Assessment and Reassessment of Learning Outcomes (PARLO), a standards-based grading system. Key components of PARLO are basing student final grades on the number of learning outcomes on which the student is high-performance or proficient, providing students with…

Adaptive teaching practices align to students' assets and learning needs, for example, by selecting tasks adaptively so that the next learning goal for a student can be achieved. While digital formative assessment tools have been developed to provide insights into students' assets and learning needs, little is known how formative assessment…

The purpose of this research study was to identify how teacher educators (TEs) attend to and use formative feedback as they work to support preservice teachers' (PSTs') learning. The formative feedback was provided to the TEs as part of recurring instructional cycles within their elementary mathematics or science methods course. In these…