Category: Assessment Theories & Methodologies

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Transforming Formative Assessment Method in Introductory Programming Course With ChatGPT

ChatGPT is one of the AI chatbots that can generate programming code and explain the flow of a computer program …

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Integrating Siloed and Synergistic Assessments: Enhancing Communication and Collaboration in Engineering and English Education

This study addresses the increasing need for enhanced communication and teamwork skills among Engineering program students’ education, coupled with the …

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A Conceptual Framework for Self-Regulated Learning and Assessment in Pre-service Teacher Education

Learning Analytics (LA) is a growing trend used to understand how students manage their learning with self-regulation to achieve learning …

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Towards an Evaluation of the Spatial Literacy

Where is the main character of the story? What objects are around him? These questions can emerge in the minds …

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Enhancing Communication and Documentation: An Impact Study of Feature Writing and Basic Photography Training among NIA Personnel

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of feature writing and basic photography training on the communication capabilities of National …

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A Comparative Study to Evaluate the Impact of Using the SOLO Taxonomy in Preparing Exam Questions

Evaluation is a complex task that requires clear and transparent criteria, ensuring all involved understand it as credible, with educational …

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Equating Research: Unveiling Trends, Collaborations, and Influential Works

Equating in standardized testing is crucial for ensuring equitable outcomes for test-takers across different test versions, enabling accurate decision-making based …

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Reliability and Validity of Academic Motivation Scale Among Secondary School Students

Background: Academic motivation refers to the processes that influence the initiation, direction and persistence of behavior related to knowledge acquisition …

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Formative Assessment Practices of Middle School Mathematics Teachers in the Dominican Republic

This descriptive phenomenology study investigated middle school mathematics teachers' formative assessment practices in the Dominican Republic. The study explored three …

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Factors Influencing the Implementation of Formative Assessment as Perceived by Music Teachers: A Mixed Method Research in Macao

This study explores the implementation and conception of formative assessment (FA) by middle school teachers in Macao (N = 57) …

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Toward Valid and Reliable Assessment of Individual Contributions to Teamwork

In typical classroom settings, students collaborate on tasks and submit group work for grading, often relying on peer evaluations to …

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Gamified Assessment in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework for Students’ Motivation and Engagement

Gamification of assessment has recently emerged as a valuable strategy to enhance student motivation and engagement in higher education. However, …

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The Development of a Measurement Instrument to Assess Student’s Competence in Connecting the Multiple Representations in Chemistry on Acid-Base Titration

The purpose of this research was to develop a measurement instrument to assess student’s competence in connecting multiple representations in …

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Unlocking Learning: Can Tech-Infused AfL, AaL, and AoL Align With Differentiated Instruction in Indonesia?

Technology is a vital component of civilization that is inextricably linked to the teaching and learning process and its assessment. …

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Educational Assessment in the Time of Artificial Intelligence: Assessing Creative and Critical Thought

The release of artificial intelligence (AI) text generator programs, such as ChatGPT, have changed the landscape of higher education, particularly …

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Review of the National Assessments at Grades 4 and 5 in Mauritius

Assessment has a strong influence on curriculum and pedagogy, and it is essential to have explicit links between what is …

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Reliability Criteria of Standardized Test as a Form of Practical Assessment Created From the Entelechy Perspective Integrated Into Innovative Teaching

This study aims to present essential ways to determine the reliability of a standardized test. To this goal, we explain …

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Analysis of Lecturers’ Opportunities and Challenges Regarding Formative Online Assessments at a South African Technology University

During and after COVID-19, formative online exams became widely employed at universities. Face-to-face academic activities were suspended. As a result, …

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Using the Partial Credit Model and Rasch Model to Examine the FOCIS Survey

This study examined the dimensionality and effectiveness of the five categories Likert Scale of the framework for observing and categorizing …

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CATalysts for Learning: Elevating Education With Authentic Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)

Classroom assessment techniques, or CATs, are invaluable tools for formative assessment in any classroom and represent a formative approach to …

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An Assessment of Students’ Mathematical Competency Through the Mathematics Festival’s Activity

The purpose of this research was to explore ways in assessing students’ mathematical competencies needed for the 21st-century goal. The …

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Conducting Workplace-Based Assessment in Undergraduate Training: What We Have Learned From Failures?

In outcome-based education, workplace-based assessment (WPBA) should accurately provide stakeholders with evidence of learner competencies. In undergraduate training (UGT), mini-clinical …

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On the Teaching of Literature, in Constant Reference to Michael Riffaterre and Dionysius of Halicarnassus

This essay aims to establish a dialogical framework between Michael Riffaterre´s The Poem as Representation: A Reading of Hugo, and …

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Theoretical Assessment of Employability: The Employability of Chinese International Students

Worldwide competition is looming over higher education with credential inflation and labour market congestion. Most studies focus on the student's …

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Ensuring Test Validity and Accountability in Omani Higher Education Institutions: Findings, Implications, and a Modified Framework

This qualitative study examines the roles, obstacles, and strategies employed by educators and policymakers in pursuit of test validity and …

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ProctorBox: The Open-Source Operative System Designed to Guarantee the Integrity & Security of Online Assessments

Computerized proctoring systems play an essential role in protecting the integrity and security of assessments in several modes of instruction, …

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Cracking the Code: A Framework for Ensuring Reliable TIMSS Test Scores for South African Learners

In many countries, including South Africa, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) serves as a prominent assessment …

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Assessment Horizons: Pre-service Teacher Expectations on Future Education

Socio-technical imaginaries of preservice teachers are an important area of inquiry that warrants exploration, partly because teachers need to be …

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An Alternative Approach to Working With Assessment in School –How to Make Students Profit From Teachers’ Feedback

A programme on assessment for learning has been running in Norwegian schools for years, and this has resulted in teachers …

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What PISA Set Aside? The Ignored Role of Writing Skills and Reading Fluency in OECD PISA Reading Literacy Assessments

The OECD/PISA Reading Literacy Assessments (RLA) are the most accepted but controversial large-scale measurements, which generate significant debates about their …

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Assessment of STEM Competences – Systematic Overview of Model Solution and Practices

A wide contextual understanding of STEM competence poses a strong challenge to the process of measuring and evaluating students’ achievement …

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Automatic Formative Assessment of Programming Tasks

The onset of Covid-19 has impacted educational processes, particularly assessment, in a way never seen before. Automatic Programming Assessment (APA) …

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Making Assessment Engaging for Elementary/Primary Students in Online Learning

This paper identifies the two main areas of online education that cause problems for elementary/primary school teachers. This is done …

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Diagnostic Assessment as the Essential Tool to Identify Students’ Early Pitfalls and Unravel their Potentials

Diagnostic assessment is an essential tool for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of individuals, groups, or organizations. Diagnostic assessment helps …

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Empowerment and Transfer of Student Learning From Transformational Model in Evaluation: Applied Case in Higher Education

This study describes and deepens the use of evaluation procedures based on the participation of students with respect to objectives …

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The Repercussions of Assessment of the Teaching and Learning Process

Assessment plays a pivotal role in the educational process despite occupying the fourth position in the educational cycle. It follows …

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Research Skill Level of Grade 12 Students of Penablanca National High School and Their Learning Needs in Practical Research 2: Basis for an Intervention Plan

This study primarily aimed to assess the research skill level of the Grade 12 students of Penablanca National High School. …

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Formative Assessment as an Effective Learning

Formative assessment known as a useful way to upgrade educational learning with references to student voices and staff reflection. This …

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Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Enactment of Formative Assessment: Findings from Three Colleges of Education in Ghana

Teacher educators play a significant role in the preparation of pre-service teachers to become assessment-literate and able to practice after …

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Research Assessment: Finding Consensus With Marking Approaches

Assessment is important in any teaching and learning activity as it helps both the students and instructors identify their strengths …

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A Survey of Japanese Learners of English With Diverse Proficiencies: What Makes Summary Assessment Difficult?

This study is a part of the four-year-granted project to develop an analytic rubric for EFL learners’ summary writing. The …

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Development of Analytical Thinking Using Flipped Classroom Approach for Big Data Analytics Courses

This research clarified the development of analytical thinking skills through 10 hands-on lab sessions conducted among undergraduates at Universiti Teknologi …

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Transforming the Culture of Assessment to an Online Model: “There is More Than Meets the Eye”

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic required higher education institutions to transform their academic and technological infrastructures with the goal of continuing …

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Applying IRT Model in Validating a Dichotomously Scored Test Item

This study conducted an item analysis to validate a dichotomously scored test using the Rasch measurement model, an Item Response …

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Classroom Assessment Standards: Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Assessment Practices in the Amid of the Pandemic

This study investigated assessment standards conducted by EFL Indonesian secondary school teachers and how they coped with the emergency remote …

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Assessment for Learning in Tunisian Higher Education: English Language Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Knowledge Base

Assessment Literacy (AL) has been shown to determine the way assessment is carried out in various teacher-led assessment contexts. Presumably, …

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Revealing Teachers’ and Students’ Perception of the Use of Flipgrid for Speaking Assessment

Integrating technology into teaching and learning has become a global issue in response to the 21st skills. There has been …

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Metacognitive Strategies in the Preparation of Future Chemistry Teachers

The research aim was to verify the efficiency of a metacognitive strategy called Post-Test Reflection (PTR), implemented into Chemistry Teaching …

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Effectiveness of Learning Objectives Articulated in Some of the Undergraduate Textbooks in Developing Entrepreneurial Skills in the Students

Entrepreneurs are needed in great numbers for economic growth and economic development since they are increasingly recognized as a driving …

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Establishing Psychometric Properties of the MSU-TCTO Senior High School Entrance Examination Using Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory

Achievement Testing is widely used in assessing the psychological capabilities of a person. Thus, correct test constructs are important in …

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Remote Exams: The Move From Traditional Exam Questions to Case Study Style Assessment

In 2020, because of Covid-19, student summative assessments were required to be completed off campus as opposed to being attempted …

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Examining the Impact of Classroom Group Identity Development in an Urban Chemistry Classroom

In this grounded theory study, we follow the cases of two marginalized female students in their Regents High School Chemistry …

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Combined GIS Based Spatial-Temporal Analysis Using Social Media Data of Wuhan, China

The development and growth of Internet technology with geo-location has promoted the development of China's Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) Services. …

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Peer to Peer Learning Model

Peer to Peer Learning Model Introduction Learning from one another is a characteristic of all courses at all levels, not …

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Supporting Mastery Learning Through a Multiple-Submission Policy for Assignments in a Purely Online Programming Class

The Learning Edge Momentum (LEM) theory suggests that once students fall behind, it gets more difficult to catch up with …

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Designing A Multiple Submission Policy Supporting Mastery Learning for a Design Thinking Class in a Purely Online Learning Environment

Mastery learning is defined as an approach where students are equipped with complex skills required in the VUCA world instead …

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A Tool to Assess the Quality of Self-learning Modules (SLMS) for the ‘New Normal’ in Education Using the Best-worst Method

In this paper, a tool to assess the quality of self-learning modules (SLMs) was developed using the Best Worst Method …

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Constructing a Learning-oriented Self-assessment Model of C-E Translation

The Overall Plan for Deepening the Reform of Education Evaluation in the New Era (hereinafter referred to as The Overall …

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The Use of Different Strategies by Writers in Integrated Writing Assessment

In recent years, there has been an accelerating trend towards using integrated writing tasks (IWT) in second language (L2) writing …

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Inclusive Foreign Language Assessment in Trying Times: Pre-service Teachers’ Attribution Mechanisms and Their Implications for Inclusive Emergency Remote Teaching

The main goal of foreign language education (FLE) to foster intercultural communicative competence implies the need to include and connect …

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K-12 Teacher Education Performance Assessment Preparation: Lesson Learned from Practical Application

It’s no secret that improving the quality of teaching improves the future outcome for students. As the subject of educator …

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Gap Design as a New Tool for Learning and Assessment

The attempt was to stimulate positive provocation in learners to think and create alternative approaches to effectively deal with real-life …

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Analytics of Behavior Semantics for Understanding Constraint Conditions Hidden in Formative Process of Real-world Learning

An alternative of classroom learning is situated learning by behaving in the world (e.g., environmental learning in a natural field). …

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Performing Arts: Assessment of Learning in Grade 7 Mathematics

This study determined the effect of performing art as an assessment in Grade 7 Mathematics in the academic achievement of …

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Supporting the Academic Dimension of the Transition to University

The transition from further to higher education is both an exciting and challenging time for first year undergraduate engineering students. …

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Self-regulated Learning and Dynamic Assessment in Preschool

The assessment of self-regulated learning is a relevant research topic in early childhood development. However, there are few measures to …

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A Case Study of Assignments Through an Online Mentoring Program

Behind ubiquitous information in the 21st century is the desire for understanding and mastering the information. As with any application-oriented …

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Needs Assessment: Do We Need It? A Case Study in an EFL Writing Class in Vietnam

Needs assessment focuses on "the learning needs of students, and then, once they are identified, needs are translated into learning …

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Fourth Grade Slow Learners’ Reading Error Analysis in Inclusive Elementary School in Indonesia

This study aims to analyze 4th grade slow learners’ reading errors in reading Indonesian text in an inclusive elementary school …

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Prediction of Success in Online Study: Testing, Evaluation, and Interpreting Data

Distance online education has already proven to be a viable alternative to traditional education. However, the task of raising informationally …

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Enhancing Learner Autonomy Using Student-generated Rubrics in Speaking and Writing: A Case in One Singapore Primary School

Student-generated rubrics, as part of formative assessment, have been reported to foster self-regulation and learner autonomy. This in turn can …

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A Language Proficiency Test that Works

Either out of inadequate technology or for the sake of convenience, most language proficiency tests tend to oversimplify students’ diverse …

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A New Self-adaptive Separate Grammar Test for L2 Online Young Learners

Grammar, a core component of the language system, is usually tested through writing and speaking in major language tests for …

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A Causal Model of Student Teachers’ Ambition for Becoming Teachers

Student teachers’ ambition for becoming teachers is crucially vital in effectively making the decision to be in the teaching profession. …

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Encouraging Independence and Interdependence in Assessment: Moving Towards Assessment for Learning in Heritage Language Classrooms in Singapore

Assessment for learning (AfL) can be viewed as a set of practices that enhance student learning. AfL is applicable in …

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Attitude, Perceptions and Development of edTPA as an Assessment Process Among ECE Senior Cohort Students

edTPA serves as a teacher performance assistance and support system that measures new teachers’ readiness to teach young children. Even …

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The Significance of Media in Literary Theory: Shaping the Future of Literary Criticism of Electronic Literature

Media plays an important role in literary studies. Nevertheless, the media has been neglected since the emergence of literary theories …

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Socio-cultural Aspects in the Japanese Language Teaching Methodologies

In the age of globalization learning a foreign language can be used as an important mean of cross-cultural understanding. Nowadays, …

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Harnessing Learning Analytics to Improve Online Quiz Equity

The use of online learning management systems (LMS) such as Blackboard, Canvas and Moodle is becoming a norm in higher …