Student perspectives on assessment for learning

Korean Perspectives on Assessment of Student Achievement

In this paper, two nationwide assessments for elementary and secondary students’ educational achievement in Korea were reviewed for their assessment frameworks and the overall results; the Diagnostic Test for Basic Skills (DTBS) of Grade 3 elementary students and the National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA) for Grade 6, 9 and 10 students. Also, the results for Korea in two large-sc...

Process-Based Assessment for Professional Learning in Higher Education: Perspectives on the Student-Teacher Relationship

This article reports on a study that was carried out in autumn 2007 with students in a professional nurse education distance course at a Swedish university. The study aimed to develop a greater understanding of the student-teacher relationship based on research questions addressing the teachers’ role, the learning process, and the assessment process in traditional approaches to teaching and lea...

Student Perspectives On Multitasking

People, and in particularly students, are immersed in a technology-enabled world that encourages human multitasking. Yet referent research indicates multitasking behaviors usually result in non-desirable outcomes such as reduced productivity and increased errors. The current survey research was conducted to determine perceptions of college students regarding the impact of multitasking. Do they ...

Research into Cyberbullying: Student Perspectives on Cybersafe Learning Environments

This paper reports a qualitative study designed to investigate the issues of cybersafety and cyberbullying and report how students are coping with them. Through discussion with 74 students, aged from 10 to 17, in focus groups divided into three age levels, data were gathered in three schools in Victoria, Australia, where few such studies had been set. Social networking sites and synchronous cha...

Student and Faculty Perspectives on E-Learning Support