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Direct linkKyte, Zoe A.; Goodyer, Ian M.; Sahakian, Barbara J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: To investigate whether recent first episode major depression in adolescence is characterised by selected executive difficulties in attentional flexibility, behavioural inhibition and decision-making. Methods: Selected executive functions were compared in adolescents with recent (past year) first episode major depression (n = 30) and…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Cognitive Ability
Yeh, Stuart S. – Educational Policy, 2006
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) assumes that state-mandated tests provide useful information to school administrators and teachers. However, interviews with administrators and teachers suggest that Minnesota's tests, which are representative of the current generation of state-mandated tests, fail to provide useful information to administrators…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Accountability
Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka; Millogo, Victor; Farioli, Fernand; Grainger, Jonathan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Third and fifth grade children (average age 8.6 and 10.6 years) and adult participants were tested with printed words of varying length in a new on-line identification task (the luminance increment paradigm, LIP) and a speeded naming task. Effects of general length (length in letters, phonemes and syllables) were shown to decrease systematically…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 3, Phonemes, Models
Tennant, Jeff; Gardner, R. C. – CALICO Journal, 2004
This study investigated a computerized version of the mini-AMTB, a brief form of the Attitude Motivation Test Battery, in CALL. Students in first-year French classes participating in a 10-session independent-study multimedia lab completed the computerized mini-AMTB at the beginning of the fifth and tenth sessions and evaluated their state…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Computer Uses in Education, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
Guzman, Eduardo; Conejo, Ricardo; Garcia-Hervas; Emilio – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
SIETTE is a web-based adaptive testing system. It implements Computerized Adaptive Tests. These tests are tailor-made, theory-based tests, where questions shown to students, finalization of the test, and student knowledge estimation is accomplished adaptively. To construct these tests, SIETTE has an authoring environment comprising a suite of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction, Test Items
Download full textPoggio, John; Glasnapp, Douglas R.; Yang, Xiangdong; Poggio, Andrew J. – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2005
The present study reports results from a quasi-controlled empirical investigation addressing the impact on student test scores when using fixed form computer based testing (CBT) versus paper and pencil (P&P) testing as the delivery mode to assess student mathematics achievement in a state's large scale assessment program. Grade 7 students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness, Measurement
Marcus, Sara – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To examine whether students have higher retention rates of material when they participate in online quizzes or online alternative student-centered assignments on the material presented in the F2F class. Design/methodology/approach: Reviews the literature; and analyzes data from the implementation of both types of assessment for the online…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Tests
Sluijsmans, Dominique M. A.; Prins, Frans J.; Martens, Rob L. – Learning Environments Research, 2006
This article focuses on the design of competency-based performance assessment in e-learning. Though effort has been invested in designing powerful e-learning environments, relatively little attention has been paid to the design of valid and reliable assessments in such environments, leaving many questions to educational developers and teachers. As…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Test Construction, Educational Assessment
Simpson, Deborah; Gehl, Suzanne; Helm, Robin; Kerwin, Diana; Drewniak, Theresa; Bragg, Dawn St. A.; Ziebert, Monica M.; Denson, Steven; Brown, Diane; Heffron, Mary Gleason; Mitchell, Julie; Harsch, Harold H.; Havas, Nancy; Duthie, Edmund, Jr.; Denson, Kathryn – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Wisconsin Geriatric Education Center (WGEC) are committed to developing educational materials for primary care physicians in training. In response to the opportunity created by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competency mandate, an MCW-led interdisciplinary working…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Physicians, Geriatrics, Competency Based Education
White, Heather – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2006
In this article, the author describes how she maintains student interest with the use of advanced technology. The author is currently using an assessment tool in her classroom--the Classroom Performance System (CPS)--that actually brings cheers from her students. The CPS provides an objective way to measure student understanding by using…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Multiple Choice Tests, Educational Technology, Cooperative Learning
Zechner, Klaus; Bejar, Isaac I.; Hemat, Ramin – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
The increasing availability and performance of computer-based testing has prompted more research on the automatic assessment of language and speaking proficiency. In this investigation, we evaluated the feasibility of using an off-the-shelf speech-recognition system for scoring speaking prompts from the LanguEdge field test of 2002. We first…
Descriptors: Role, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Nicol, David – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Concerns about noncompletion and the quality of the 1st-year student experience have been linked to recent changes in higher education such as modularisation, increased class sizes, greater diversity in the student intake and reduced resources. Improving formative assessment and feedback processes is seen as one way of addressing academic failure,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Experience, Learning Experience, Academic Failure
Bennett, Randy Elliot; Persky, Hilary; Weiss, Andrew R.; Jenkins, Frank – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments (TRE) study was designed to demonstrate and explore innovative use of computers for developing, administering, scoring, and analyzing the results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments. Two scenarios (Search and Simulation) were created for measuring problem solving…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, National Competency Tests, Problem Solving, Simulation
Loucky, John Paul – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of this study was to find ways to improve online reading and vocabulary learning. Various new types of online reading comprehension and vocabulary development programs and tests were compared in this study to consider how useful they may be for guiding individual or classroom L2 vocabulary instruction. It explored how these programs seek…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
El-Khouly, Mahmoud M. – E-Learning, 2007
With support from the Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund (HEEPF), the Faculty of Science at Helwan University (Egypt) has constructed a number of online courses in support of the graduate diploma in computer sciences programme. All courses in the diploma have a web presence, and the course offerings are now moving towards a much more…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
