scholarly journals Calculating the Future: The Historical Assemblage of Empirical Evidence, Benchmarks & PISA,

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Popkewitz ◽  
Jingying Feng ◽  
Lei Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Assessment

Purpose —Prominent at the intersections of national educational agencies, higher education, and international educational performance assessments are two reform standards: “benchmarks” determining optimal student performance, and “empirical evidence” for determining the quality of reform practices. These two notions are often taken as connecting policy and research to effective changes in many countries. The article examines the historical and cultural principles about educational change and its sciences embedded in these standards through examining OECD's PISA and the McKinsey & Company reports that draw on PISA's data. Findings/Originality/Value —First, the reports express salvation themes associated with modernity; that is, the promise of a better future through governing the present. The promise is to provide nations with data and models to achieve social equality, economic prosperity, and a participatory democracy. Second, the promise of the future is not descriptive of some present reality but to fabricate the universal characteristics about society and individuals. The numbers embody social and psychological categories about a desired unity of all students. Third, the “empirical evidence” of the international assessment entails a particular notion of science and “evidence”; one that paradoxically uses the universals in comparing and creating divisions.

scholarly journals Mechanisms for assessing student performance in higher education

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
А.А. Хўжаев ◽  
Г.А. Хўжаева
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Quality Of Education

Ушбу мақолада олий таълим муассасаларида ўқитиш самарадорлиги ва таълим сифатини ошириш, масофавий таълим шароитида талабаларни баҳолаш хусусида фикр юритилади. В статье рассматриваются эффективность преподавания и качество образования в высшей школе, оценка студентов в контексте дистанционного обучения. The article examines the effectiveness of teaching and the quality of education in higher education, the assessment of students in the context of distance learning.

scholarly journals UPAYA PENINGKATAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN TINGGI SERTA IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP TUGAS DAN PERAN DOSEN

Nuansa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizkan Syahbuddin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
National Development ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Behavior

National development that  lasts  all the  time,  then the  development of higher education is still prioritized by the government to continue to grow, including the role and  duties of lecturers. Strategy  setting is part  of long-term development. The goal is in the most appropriate way in the future to be able. Improving the quality of higher education can not be separated from the quality of human resources owned. Therefore, improving the quality of the behavior and behavior of lecturers as teachers through education channels and  effective training programs in their  work is needed. With qualified human resources, it is expected that  higher education will become an institution capable of effectively facing the challenges of the future.

scholarly journals Systemic Changes in Higher Education

in education ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Siemens ◽  
Kathleen Matheos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Power Shift ◽  
The Future

A power shift is occurring in higher education, driven by two trends: (a) the increased freedom of learners to access, create, and re-create content; and (b) the opportunity for learners to interact with each other outside of a mediating agent. Information access and dialogue, previously under control of the educator, can now be readily fulfilled by learners. When the essential mandate of universities is buffeted by global, social/political, technological, and educational change pressures, questions about the future of universities become prominent. The integrated university faces numerous challenges, including a decoupling of research and teaching functions. Do we still need physical classrooms? Are courses effective when information is fluid across disciplines and subject to continual changes? What value does a university provide society when educational resources and processes are open and transparent?Keywords: higher education; freedom of learners; open access; online learning

scholarly journals Is Peer Review Fit for Purpose?

2022 ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
Malcolm Tight
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
First Century ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Academic Employment ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
The Uk

AbstractPeer review is endemic to judgement in higher education. It is assumed that when we need to make a judgement on the quality of something—student performance, academic employment, teaching, research and publication—then we may rely on the assessment of peers, whether they be fellow students, lecturers or more senior academics. This chapter will illustrate and challenge this assumption, and assess how ‘fit for purpose’ peer review is in twenty-first century academe. It will focus on different practices of peer review in the contemporary higher education system, it will also question how well they work, how they might be improved and what the alternatives are. The examples to be discussed include refereed journal articles, the assessment of doctoral degrees and the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF).

scholarly journals Vietnamese English teachers’ views on formative assessment management and suggestions to improve student motivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Hai
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Teacher Knowledge ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Teaching Learning

Student performance assessments play an important role in the training process. They reflect how well students performed their learning activities. The goals of assessment are multiple according to their functions. Among assessment forms currently applied at higher education institutions, the formative assessment shows its strength over others by offering great contributions to the innovation of teaching and learning activities. Appropriate use of this form of assessment leads to a successful teaching and learning process, and a much better result and quality of training. This paper focuses on the view of formative assessment management from teachers’ lenses in order to help adjust teaching/learning methods and curriculums. To learn more about the reality of formative assessment for English majors and how it is managed by various stakeholders, a questionnaire and interviews were used. The investigation's findings reveal a substantial lack of teacher knowledge of the nature and strengths of formative assessment. These findings also point to new ways to increase student motivation through the use of formative assessment.

scholarly journals Approaches for Building Information Systems for Monitoring the Realization of Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-481
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Software Implementation ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Graduating Students

The article is dedicated to the methodological and technological issues of building information systems for tracking the realization of graduating students. This is an important issue for the field of higher education, as it has a direct bearing on the quality of the higher education provided. The higher the quality of education is, the easier and more successful the realization of the students can be. In this way, the results of the student performance survey can be used as an indicator for the introduction of corrective policies. Based on a literature research, the study proposes a specially developed methodology consisting of five methods. Each of them is described, and from a software point of view the implementation of the last of them is the most complex. An indicative framework of three main stages and tasks in them is proposed, which allow the realization of the designed information system. In the empirical part of the research special attention is paid to the software implementation of the most complex of the proposed methods, and also the results of its application are presented. In conclusion, opportunities for improvement and development of the methodology are proposed.

scholarly journals A two-step model for creative teaching in higher education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Creative Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Step Model ◽  
Creative Learning ◽  
Teaching Cases ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

This paper provides examples of practice demonstrating some underlying principles of translating creative and active pedagogies from school into a higher education context, using a simple two-step model and the concept of creative learning and teaching (Jeffrey, 2006). Since working in higher education, I sought to translate the principles of creative learning and teaching (Jeffrey, 2006) into my praxis. This exercise became particularly prudent when moving into academic development, trying to convey the successful principles underlying my pedagogy to colleagues on the Masters in Academic Practice. The paper will discuss a two-step model I developed: de-contextualizing and then re-contextualizing sometimes complex and intangible learning content to make it more accessible for learners. This will be exemplified by two teaching cases and evidenced with data I collected during my own Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, demonstrating how the approach improved student performance and the overall quality of their academic work. These principles could be easily translated into different disciplinary contexts, with different groups of students.

scholarly journals Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ole Eggers Bjælde ◽  
Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen ◽  
Annika Büchert Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Continuous Assessment ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Future ◽  
Assessment Format ◽  
Enhance Student Learning ◽  
Increase Efficiency

Designing fair and efficient ways of assessing student learning is a challenge to most teachers in higher education. It is possible that multiple graded, low-stake activities during the teaching period can either replace or supplement end-of-semester exams to measure student performance. Such a shift to continuous assessment has the potential not only to increase efficiency but, importantly, also enhance student learning. Continuous assessment is used widely internationally and now (since 2016) also allowed at Danish Universities. Here we review the advantages and disadvantages of this assessment format and report on its first use in two science courses at Aarhus University. We include a detailed description of the graded tasks and activities used in the two courses. By comparing student per-formance in continuous assessments with that of a traditional end-of-semester exam we are able to highlight some challenges and provide recommendations for the future use of this assessment format at Danish universities.

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