It has become axiomatic that assessment impacts powerfully on student learning, but there is a surprising dearth of research on how. This study explored the mechanism of impact of summative assessment on the process of learning of theory in higher education. Individual, in-depth interviews were conducted with medical students and analyzed qualitatively. The impact of assessment on learning was ...

Clicker Assessment and Feedback (CAF) is an instructional assessment and feedback strategy that is incorporated with interactive technologies, often referred to as clickers. Several thousand colleges and universities across Europe and North America have adopted CAF as a strategy in their classrooms. This study has three major objectives. The first objective is to discuss the development of an i...

Introduction Traditionally, neurosciences is perceived as a difficult course in undergraduate medical education with literature suggesting use of the term "Neurophobia" (fear of neurology among medical students). Instructional strategies employed for the teaching of neurosciences in undergraduate curricula traditionally include a combination of lectures, demonstrations, practical classes, probl...

Background: Learning portfolios are increasingly being introduced in higher education including undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Due to their highly personalized nature, creation of an assessment tool that accurately reflects the value for the learner of the “work” created is challenging, and has prevented a more widespread use of this valuable tool. Innovation & Evaluation: Fo...

This research used Web-based two-tier diagnostic assessment and Web-based dynamic assessment to develop an assessment-centered e-Learning system, named the ‘GPAM-WATA e-Learning system.’ This system consists of two major designs: (1) personalized dynamic assessment, meaning that the system automatically generates dynamic assessment for each learner based on the results of the pre-test of the tw...

One-shot instruction in academic libraries is a librarian-controlled bibliographic that responds to the point of information need for subject-related courses. The assessment teaching effectiveness tends take summative approach, which provides an answer what students learned but does not address how they learned. This column theoretically explores framework Ideas-Connections-Extensions (ICE) lib...

Abstract As assessment plays an important role in the process of teaching and learning, this research explored impacts formative summative assessments on academic motivation, attitude toward test anxiety, self-regulation skill EFL students Iran. To fulfill objectives research, 72 Iranian learners were chosen based convenience sampling method assigned to two experimental groups (summative group ...