Printed in the United Kingdom by Océ (UK) Ltd. ©UCLES 2011 – The contents of this publication may not be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder. Welcome to issue 43 of Research Notes, our quarterly publication reporting on matters relating to research, test development and validation within Cambridge ESOL. The use of technology in language testing dates back to 1985 w...

Individual submission of programming assignments should be considered in all introductory programming courses. We describe a custom web support system for submission and management of programming assignments in an introductory C programming course. Experience from the first time use of the system is reported. In addition, we compare the pattern of use with the results of the final exam in order...

PURPOSE The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate students' academic outcomes after implementation of the team-based learning (TBL) approach in patient/client management courses in an entry-level doctor of physical therapy (DPT) curriculum. METHODS The research design of this study involved comparing written and practical exam scores from DPT student cohorts taught with the trad...

Online courses make possible new forms of working and learning together that would be difficult or impossible to use in the classroom-based course. This paper presents field evaluation results comparing the traditional in-class examination and the collaborative online examination using asynchronous learning networks (ALN) in a graduate-level course in a U.S. university. The collaborative online...

This paper describes the concept for a Webbased, database supported e-Learning Test, Examination and Assessment System, called TEASE, that can be used via the Internet and is therefore suitable for both local and remote examination preparation as well as for examination within lab courses (entry test) or during lectures (big online exams in lecture halls). Another topic of this contribution is ...

Abstract Community colleges may face challenges supporting the unique needs of language minority (LM) students whose primary is not English. Florida provides a context for examining whether LM who are considered underprepared college-level coursework benefit more from traditional developmental education programs in reading and writing, or reformed that allow most to accelerate even bypass requi...

As part of a study of the science preparation of elementary school teachers, we investigated the quality of students’ reasoning and explored the relationship between sophistication of reasoning and the degree to which the courses were measured to be interactive. First, we devised written content exam questions, which were open ended and required students to apply recently learned concepts in a ...

With increasing student numbers and decreasing budgets, undergraduate embedded systems education needs to turn to Computer-aided Assessment (CAA) techniques to keep down the time and effort invested into grading. When setting up the mandatory embedded systems courses for the bachelor study “Computer Engineering” at our university, we thus payed particular attention to employ CAA-compatible exam...

BACKGROUND The aim of training midwifery student is to increase scientific and practical abilities in trainees in order to present caring health services. Then, the evaluation tools of these abilities have great importance. This study tried to evaluate the content validity, criterion validity and base validity of academic exams. METHODS This cross-sectional research was an evaluated type that...