Sarah Teakel, Kelly Linden, Neil van der Ploeg, Noelia Roman
{"title":"Embedding equity: online tutor support to provide effective feedforward on assessments","authors":"Sarah Teakel, Kelly Linden, Neil van der Ploeg, Noelia Roman","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2232955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2232955","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115425567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florence T. T. Phua, Gerard H. Dericks, Edmund R. Thompson, Jürgen Enders
{"title":"Are satisfied students simply happy people in the first place? The role of trait affect in student satisfaction","authors":"Florence T. T. Phua, Gerard H. Dericks, Edmund R. Thompson, Jürgen Enders","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2230386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2230386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132790481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luotong Hui, Kate Ippolito, Moira Sarsfield, M. Charalambous
{"title":"Using a self-reflective ePortfolio and feedback dialogue to understand and address problematic feedback expectations","authors":"Luotong Hui, Kate Ippolito, Moira Sarsfield, M. Charalambous","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2232960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2232960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130431050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating success in higher education: engagement as a mediator between learning strategies and performance in mathematics","authors":"S. Büchele","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2230387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2230387","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Various studies investigate the effects of learning strategies on students’ performance. However, one can see a mixed pattern of the impact of learning strategies on performance. One reason might be that studies often overlook the relationships between learning strategy use and engagement factors. Using panel data and a sample of 299 undergraduate students enrolled in economics and business administration at a midsized German university, this study investigates the role of engagement constructs between students’ strategy use and performance in mathematics. The results suggest that memorizing and elaboration strategies drive the students’ learning engagement differently, and learning engagement fully mediates the link between learning strategy use and (mathematics) performance. Therefore, it does not matter how students learn but whether students learn regularly and persistently.","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121023992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students’ perceptions of peer review for assessing digital multimodal composing: the case of a discipline-specific English course","authors":"Yi Deng, Dan Liu, D. Feng","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2227358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2227358","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While peer review has been widely incorporated in assessing digital multimodal composing (DMC) to provide formative feedback, how students perceive its benefits and problems remains inadequately investigated. Drawing upon the concept of student feedback literacy, this study applied semi-structured interviews to explore students’ perceptions towards peer review of a DMC task in a discipline-specific English course at a Chinese university. The findings revealed that students generally held a favourable attitude towards peer review in advancing their feedback literacy through enhancing their self-reflexivity and self-regulation of learning, improving the quality of DMC outputs, promoting a co-learning environment, and developing the knowledge repertoire of evaluating multimodal tasks. However, challenges were also identified regarding cognitive capability, time constraints, language proficiency, interpersonal relations and unwillingness to participate, with some students not fully engaging. Practical strategies such as task-based learning, additional scaffolding support and peer teaching are recommended to address these challenges. The study highlights the importance of the teachers’ role in providing explicit instruction and guidance to manage peer review effectively. It expands our understanding of peer review in DMC and sheds light on improving the formative process of DMC assessment, as well as designing and managing peer review of DMC tasks.","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121717456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marloes L. Nederhand, B. Giesbers, Judith Auer, Ad W. A. Scheepers
{"title":"Animated process-transparency in student evaluation of teaching: effects on the quality and quantity of student feedback","authors":"Marloes L. Nederhand, B. Giesbers, Judith Auer, Ad W. A. Scheepers","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2225813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2225813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125280329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discrimination against academics and career implications of student evaluations: university policy versus legal compliance","authors":"Troy A. Heffernan, Paul Harpur","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2225806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2225806","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Across the international higher education sector, existing studies highlight that student evaluations of courses and teaching are biased and prejudiced towards academics and can cause mental distress. Yet student evaluation data is often used as part of faculty hiring, firing, promotion, award and grant decisions. That a data source known to be prejudiced and biased is used for employment and career decisions raises questions around whether these university policies are discriminatory towards university staff. This paper investigates these questions via an analysis of: a) what are the common university policies relating to evaluation data collection and its use, b) are these policies leaving academics exposed to discrimination, and c) what types of policies may be leaving universities liable to legal ramifications due to non-compliance with anti-discrimination and workplace health and safety laws? The work demonstrates why most institutions are operating outside the bounds of the law, highlights to academics what types of policies may fail to meet discrimination and workplace laws, and informs university leaders of the actions that may be exposing their universities to legal implications for failing to protect their staff.","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127700456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The development and validation of an instrument to measure evaluative judgement: a focus on engineering students’ judgement of intercultural competence","authors":"Jiahui Luo, Cecilia K. Y. Chan, Yue Zhao","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2222937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2222937","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Intensive research attention has focused on developing students’ evaluative judgement within the higher education curriculum, but little has addressed how it can be measured. The contextual nature of evaluative judgement makes it difficult to generate an encompassing instrument, highlighting the need for situated measurement tools. Against this background, this study develops and validates a self-report instrument to measure engineering students’ evaluative judgement of intercultural competence. A total of 815 Chinese engineering students participated in the pilot and formal phases of validation. Following sequential exploratory-confirmatory factor analyses, the final instrument contains 27 items covering six dimensions. Validity and reliability evidence supports the correlated six-factor model and a higher-order factor model. The study provides educators and policymakers with a useful tool to understand students’ development in their evaluative judgement of intercultural competence. More importantly, for students themselves, the instrument facilitates self-reflection and helps them achieve greater autonomy in directing their development and growth. Although the study adopts a situated approach to measure evaluative judgement, we also discuss the possibility of adapting this instrument for other judgement contexts.","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126118364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student partnership in assessment in higher education: a systematic review","authors":"C. Chan, Si Chen","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2224948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2224948","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This systematic review aims to explore how student partnership is enacted in higher education assessment using community of practice and liminality of student roles as the conceptual framework. Forty-three empirical studies were selected, and extracted data were synthesised using thematic analysis. The results show that student partnership occurs in four main areas of assessment – assessment and feedback design, execution and implementation, quality assurance, policy establishment – and that students adopt the role of co-designers, assessors, consultants and decision-makers in assessment partnerships. The analysis also reveals four types of support university staff can provide to facilitate partnerships: essential knowledge, training and coaching, accuracy and quality check and partnership management. Based on the findings, a framework is proposed to elucidate student partnership in assessment as situated learning in a community of practice. The findings of this review have theoretical and practical implications for policy makers, researchers and practitioners.","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117289892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The tension between impression management and learning: examining the impact of Chinese students’ academic integrity perceptions on self-assessment intentions","authors":"Tianxin Li, Gavin T. L. Brown, E. Hawe","doi":"10.1080/02602938.2023.2222232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2222232","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Student self-assessment research underscores the significance of honestly recognizing strengths and weaknesses, facilitating self-regulated learning and progress. The Integrated Quality Assessment (IQA) in China combines self-assessment with other data to evaluate achievement, serving dual purposes: promoting students’ awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and providing summative scores and grades that contribute to the allocation of scholarships and other valued outcomes. This association creates tension in Chinese students’ self-assessment intentions due to the high-stakes consequences. Using a large-scale, cross-sectional survey of 2,063 Chinese undergraduate students, the factors influencing students’ self-assessment intentions were examined. Structural equation modeling revealed that positive perceptions of academic integrity and conceptions of IQA as improvement predicted learning-oriented self-assessment intentions, while increased perceptions of peer misconduct and negative conceptions of IQA significantly predicted impression management intentions.","PeriodicalId":437516,"journal":{"name":"Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128727322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}