Value-added assessment in higher education: a comparison of two methods   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ou Lydia Liu 《Higher Education》2011,61(4):445-461

Evaluation of the effectiveness of higher education has received unprecedented attention from stakeholders at many levels. The Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) is one of the initiatives to evaluate institutional core educational outcomes (e.g., critical thinking, written communication) using standardized tests. As promising as the VSA method is for calculating a valueadded score and allowing results to be comparable across institutions, it has a few potential methodological limitations. This study proposed an alternative way of value-added computation which takes advantage of multilevel models and considers important institution-level variables. The institutional value-added ranking was significantly different for some of the institutions (i.e., from being ranked at the bottom to performing better than 50% of the institutions) between these two methods, which may lead to substantially different consequences for those institutions, should the results be considered for accountability purposes.  相似文献   

College students' temporal‐magnitude recognition ability associated with durations of scientific changes     

Hee‐Sun Lee  Ou Lydia Liu  C. Aaron Price  Amber L.M. Kendall 《科学教学研究杂志》2011,48(3):317-335

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Intercultural Identities: Addressing the Global Dimension through Art Education     

June Bianchi 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2011,30(2):279-292

Recent educational policy and practice have established an extended role for all subjects in addressing children and young peoples' academic and interpersonal development, with strategies facilitating key skills and wider learning across areas of Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health education providing an integrated approach to education and welfare. The significance of global development education within a holistic curriculum acknowledges the increased awareness of the interconnected nature of our relationship with each other and with the planet we share as world citizens. The arts have a strong track‐record in addressing such key issues – challenging hierarchical paradigms which reinforce prejudice and stereotyping, the arts encourage reflexive processes and critical engagement with diversity and pluralist perspectives. This article investigates curricular approaches to the global dimension within education in relation to theoretical perspectives and policies, presenting an intercultural art case study as a model of practice in engaging diverse participants in reflection on their own and others' experiences across a range of socio‐cultural contexts. Current political shifts reaffirming the centrality of the discrete disciplines over cross‐curricular practice could potentially undermine a more holistic approach to education. The article argues that policy and practice, implemented in response to changing political and philosophical ideology, must nevertheless maintain a commitment to fostering interdisciplinary values of cultural awareness. Such practice must form part of an inclusive internationalist educational vision, impacting on social cohesion.  相似文献   

Resisting Focalisation,Gaining Empathy: Swedish Teenagers Read Irish Fiction     

Eva Fjällström  Lydia Kokkola 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2015,46(4):394-409

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Stress prevention through a time management training intervention: an experimental study     

Alexander Häfner  Armin Stock  Lydia Pinneker  Sabine Ströhle 《教育心理学》2014,34(3):403-416

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a short-term time management training programme on perceived control of time and perceived stress. The sample of 177 freshmen was randomly assigned to a time management training (n?=?89) and an active control group (CG) (n?=?88). We expected that an increase in external demands during the first weeks of the semester would lead to more perceived stress in the CG, but not in the time management training group, due to the time management intervention. As hypothesised, perceived stress increased in the CG, but not in the time management training group. Furthermore, perceived control of time increased in the time management training group but remained unchanged in the CG. Even a rather short intervention of 2?h can protect freshmen from an increase in perceived stress at the beginning of the semester.  相似文献   

Origen de las acciones ideales: Condiciones psicológicas de las mismas     

V. V. Davídov  V. P. Andronov  Lydia Kuper 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(10):21-36

Resumen

Se plantee el problema de la interiorización de las acciones materiales en los niños de edad preescolar. Los autores conciben el pensamiento como el componente ideal de la actividad real del hombre en cuanto ser social. El objetivo de la investigación, que emplea como ejemplo las operaciones implicadas en la adn matemática, es el de identificar algunas de las condiciones psicológicas del origen de las acciones mentales reducidas. Los datos demostraron que una de las condiciones significativas para la transformación de la acción real de adición orientada a los objetos en una acción mental es el cambio del modo en que ésta se ejecuta. Este cambio se basa en la diferente relación o proporción entre los real-material y los simbólico-verbal empleados en la fijación de los objetos. La investigación intenta precisar, por tanto, algunos de los aspectos relacionados con los mecanismos de interiorización de las acciones.  相似文献   

Career development of foreign trained immigrants from regulated professions     

Lydia Novak  Charles P. Chen 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2013,13(1):5-24

In this article, we aim to examine and understand the career development experiences of foreign-trained immigrants from regulated professions (FTIRPs) in Canada. To provide some background on immigration in a Canadian context, we focus on a myriad of factors that affect the vocational well-being of FTIRPs. We apply key concepts from several major career development theories to FTIRPs, proposing some general helping strategies intended to empower this population in managing and developing their careers in a new world of work in their host country.  相似文献   

Designing Interdisciplinary Assessments in Sciences for College Students: An example on osmosis     

Ji Shen  Ou Lydia Liu  Shannon Sung 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(11):1773-1793

College science education needs to foster students' habit of mind beyond disciplinary constraints. However, little research has been devoted to assessing students' interdisciplinary understanding. To address this problem, we formed a team of experts from different disciplines to develop interdisciplinary assessments that target introductory college-level science. We started our project by focusing on osmosis, a topic that involves knowledge from multiple science disciplines. We developed an instrument focusing on this topic and administered it to 3 classes of college students. A Rasch partial credit analysis showed that the items demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties. The findings also revealed the differences between student's disciplinary and interdisciplinary understanding. The educational implications of the study were discussed.  相似文献   

Read Alouds and Beyond: The Effects of Read Aloud Extension Activities on Vocabulary in Head Start Classrooms     

Rebecca Silverman  Jennifer DiBara Crandell  Lydia Carlis 《Early education and development》2013,24(2):98-122

A study was conducted in 26 Head Start classrooms with 264 children to compare the effect of a read aloud plus extension activities intervention over a control group to the effect of a read aloud only intervention over a control group on preschool children's vocabulary. Children were assessed before and after the intervention on target vocabulary and general vocabulary measures. Research Findings: The results suggest that the effects of the read aloud plus intervention were stronger than the effects of the read aloud only intervention on target word learning. In addition, the effects of the read aloud plus intervention on target word learning were stronger for children with higher versus lower general vocabulary knowledge. Neither intervention had an effect on general word knowledge. Practice or Policy: Observation and fidelity data are used to contextualize the findings, and the results are discussed in light of the extant literature on preschool vocabulary interventions.  相似文献   

Multifaceted Assessment of Inquiry-Based Science Learning     

Ou Lydia Liu  Hee-Sun Lee  Marcia C. Linn 《Educational Assessment》2013,18(2):69-86

To improve student science achievement in the United States we need inquiry-based instruction that promotes coherent understanding and assessments that are aligned with the instruction. Instead, current textbooks often offer fragmented ideas and most assessments only tap recall of details. In this study we implemented 10 inquiry-based science units that promote knowledge integration and developed assessments that measure student knowledge integration abilities. To measure student learning outcomes, we designed a science assessment consisting of both proximal items that are related to the units and distal items that are published from standardized tests (e.g., Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). We compared the psychometric properties and instructional sensitivity of the proximal and distal items. To unveil the context of learning, we examined how student, class, and teacher characteristics affect student inquiry science learning. Several teacher-level characteristics including professional development showed a positive impact on science performance.  相似文献