OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of summative assessment of student nurses' practice currently in use. DESIGN Narrative review and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative studies. DATA SOURCES With the support of an information specialist, the data were collected from scientific databases which included CINAHL, PubMed, Medic, ISI Web of Science, Cochrane library and ERIC published from J...

This thesis studies the Chinese banks’ credit risk assessment using the Post Keynesian approach. We argue that bank loans are the major financial sources in emerging economies and it is uncertainty, an unquantifiable risk, rather than asymmetric information about quantifiable risk, as held by the mainstream approach, which is most important for the risk attached to credit loans, and this uncert...

This study examines institutional factors that promote faculty satisfaction with their institution’s approach to and support for student assessment and that are related to faculty involvement in their institution’s support practices and in their own engagement with student assessment in the classroom. The study is based on a survey of faculty from 7 institutions that vary by type, control, and ...

The authors are members of the Task Force on Student Outcomes Assessment of the American Dental Education Association’s Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (ADEA CCI). Dr. Kramer is Director, Department of Testing Services, American Dental Association; Dr. Albino is a Senior Consultant, Academy for Academic Leadership, as well as President Emerita, University of Colorado and...

Increased reading difficulty of mathematics assessment items has been shown to negatively affect student performance. The advent of high-stakes testing, which has serious ramifications for students’ futures and teachers’ careers, necessitates analysis of reading difficulty on state assessment items and student performance on those items. Using analysis of covariance, this study analyzed the eff...

This article proposes that there are strong theoretical and practical connections between student engagement and student self-assessment. The idea is that deeper levels of student self-assessment are critical aspects of pedagogical processes aiming to encourage students to be substantively engaged in their classroom learning experiences. This argument was developed in the Fair Go Project, actio...