English is a demanding language for EFL students especially ones without access to additional support like tutorials, extra classes, and opportunities to use English in their daily lives. Scaffolding the writing process for students and making automatic use of genre knowledge would help them improve their English writing performance. Little is…

The purpose of this action research study was to examine grading practices in one military-connected high school and to make recommendations for aligning grading practices to improve student achievement, engagement, and equity. Through iterative research cycles of look, think, and act, teachers from one military-connected high school participated…

Information literacy refers to a set of skills that allow its user to find appropriate resources and use them to develop, define and defend arguments. In many undergraduate programms, including biology and STEM related fields, students are expected to utilise these skills in writing lab reports, paper analyses, and in developing testable…

Collaborative problem solving (CPS) has been deemed a critical twenty-first century competency for a variety of contexts. However, less attention has been given to work aimed at the assessment and acquisition of such capabilities. Recently large scale efforts have been devoted toward assessing CPS skills, but there are no agreed upon guiding…

There is a growing need for standardized oral assessment rubrics in learning institutions. This is linked to the growing number of ESL learners not only in Saudi Arabia but other parts of the world. To assess the need to use standardized oral assessment rubrics, this particular study explores various peer reviewed articles that support the use of…

Traditionally, rubrics were used simply as grading tools to provide marking frameworks that were transparent to students. More recently, rubrics have been promoted as educational tools to inform students of good practice with the assumption that they engage with these rubrics to guide their learning. However, some tensions arise from this…

Quality Matters certification is regarded by many American universities, including the university where the study was conducted, as the industry standard for quality online course design. Although a wide body of research has been completed on Quality Matters rubric effectiveness in changing course design, research was needed to explore faculty…

Rubrics are assessment guides for grading and giving feedback to students while demonstrating acquired knowledge and skills. In the last decades, rubrics have been all part of the most used learning evaluation tools in higher education. Its use is further well-related to competency-based assessment purposes. Nevertheless, criticism around design…

This study aims at alternatively assessing the 3D-printed prototype performances showed by young pupils during tinkering activities, as well as developing an instructional rubric that can be evaluated in line with the requirements of tinkering learning. In this direction, a draft rubric has been created by literature review and 3D product…

The authors have developed a set of undergraduate research learning outcomes that address the traditions of research and mentoring across campus. Achievement of these outcomes is assessed at annual, institution-wide, undergraduate research events by employing a poster presentation evaluation rubric and deploying graduate students, postdoctoral…

E-journaling invites students to reflect upon and synthesize their experiences, readings, discussions, and presentations in a series of electronic entries, usually viewed only by the student and the instructor. E-journaling assignments have become easier to complete and grade in the last few years because they are now supported by learning…

With this research, we sought to expand the pool of engineering education assessment instruments. We drew upon earlier efforts to define an expanded protocol for prompting children's drawings of engineers; and evaluate the reliability of a new scoring rubric for the modified Draw-an-Engineer Test (mDAET). An earlier paper introduced our ground…

This paper discusses the development of a source evaluation assessment, and presents the results of using this instrument in a one-semester information literacy course for journalism students. The assessment was developed using the threshold concept perspective, the "authority is constructed and contextual" frame, and an established…

The purpose of this article is to enhance the existing literature about effective teaching practices for the sport of badminton, specifically introducing an adaptation for an "assessment for learning" rubric. Using a standards-based model, the "play practice" conceptual framework of assessment can be implemented for the sport…

Assurance of learning assessment results are used as a basis for curriculum changes at Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business-accredited institutions. Because budget constraints and opportunity costs impact all schools, assessment quality is critical. This research uses a longitudinal, business school case study to highlight bias…