Improving Assessment through Student Involvement

Improving undergraduate medical student involvement in research

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Improving Student Thinking Through Elementary Art Instruction

Improving higher education through student satisfaction surveys

Along with the educational expansion and the increasing demand regarding accountability for the outcomes of higher education institutions, a great emphasis is put on students' feedback. The present paper is focused on the educational results obtained by the implementation of student satisfaction surveys in a Romanian university. The survey instruments measure three dimensions (the teaching and ...

Negotiated Collaborative Assessment through Collaborative Student Modelling

We propose an approach to computer-based assessment which offers the opportunity for the results of the assessment to be negotiated through the use of an open model of the student’s knowledge. This has a degree of face validity for those being assessed, but it remains to be seen the extent to which the approach has other forms of validity, and is reliable. This paper outlines a research program...

Improving Student Learning through the Use of Multisource Assessment and Feedback

1 Jack McGourty and Peter Dominick, Columbia University, School of Engineering, New York, NY, 10018, [email protected], [email protected] 2 Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry Shuman, & Harvey Wolfe University of Pittsburgh, Engineering School, Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract  This paper examines the use of multisource ass...