The purpose of this study was to get more insight in the effects of written assessment tasks integrated in a problem‐based learning environment. Both the influence on students' performances and students' perceptions were investigated. Students' final exam results were used to find out whether students who make the assessment tasks do better than students who do not. Answers from questionnaires and semi‐structured interviews were used to discover the most important concerns in students' and teachers' perceptions of the assessment tasks. The results indicate that making the assessment tasks had positive influence on the students' overall performance. From the questionnaires and interviews it appears that both the students and the teachers see...
The purposes of this study are to gain more insight into students’ actual preferences and perception...
A number of states, schools and school districts are engaged in efforts to develop and implement new...
The assessment is a significant and integral part of educational process. It is like a motivation fo...
To an increasing extent, teachers and students are leaving the well-known, traditional learning and ...
<p>In an empirical study, Bryant & Zhang (forthcoming) show that the academic performance of a unive...
Student assessment (assignments, examinations, presentations, portfolios etc) are widely accepted as...
The literature supporting the notion that active, student-centered learning is superior to passive, ...
One important educational objective is to produce students who are critical of their own learning. A...
"Assessment steers students' learning" is a statement that has been used repeatedly without solid ev...
In today’s learning and teaching environment assessment is essential in making students’ experience ...
Since the mid-1980s, many new terms have enriched the assessment literature, such as performance ass...
As in most aspects of school life, students hold clear views on how they are assessed. Do assessment...
Arguably, constructive alignment has been the major challenge for assessment in the context of probl...
The problem that prompted this research was that some students under-performed in tests and examinat...
In society and school today there is a major focus on assessment, and this can for example be seen i...
The purposes of this study are to gain more insight into students’ actual preferences and perception...
A number of states, schools and school districts are engaged in efforts to develop and implement new...
The assessment is a significant and integral part of educational process. It is like a motivation fo...
To an increasing extent, teachers and students are leaving the well-known, traditional learning and ...
<p>In an empirical study, Bryant & Zhang (forthcoming) show that the academic performance of a unive...
Student assessment (assignments, examinations, presentations, portfolios etc) are widely accepted as...
The literature supporting the notion that active, student-centered learning is superior to passive, ...
One important educational objective is to produce students who are critical of their own learning. A...
"Assessment steers students' learning" is a statement that has been used repeatedly without solid ev...
In today’s learning and teaching environment assessment is essential in making students’ experience ...
Since the mid-1980s, many new terms have enriched the assessment literature, such as performance ass...
As in most aspects of school life, students hold clear views on how they are assessed. Do assessment...
Arguably, constructive alignment has been the major challenge for assessment in the context of probl...
The problem that prompted this research was that some students under-performed in tests and examinat...
In society and school today there is a major focus on assessment, and this can for example be seen i...
The purposes of this study are to gain more insight into students’ actual preferences and perception...
A number of states, schools and school districts are engaged in efforts to develop and implement new...
The assessment is a significant and integral part of educational process. It is like a motivation fo...