Improving the Quality Management of Written Exams in Psychology Study ProgramsAbstract. Exams are central, quality-assuring elements in higher education that must meet high standards. In practice, however, this ideal is often not met. ...
Scientific literacy in primary school: effects of family characteristics and class compositionAbstract. Using data of 6,492 students from Starting Cohort 2 of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), this ...
Machine Learning in the educational context: Evidence of prediction accuracy considering essays in English as a foreign languageAbstract: Essay writing is an important skill in both first and foreign language learning. ...
Communicative Conditions in Change Management Within SchoolsAbstract. Companies and organizations are constantly under pressure to change. And especially after PISA 2000, even schools can no longer avoid this. The present article examines to what extent ...
Instructional quality of private tutoring and its correlatesAbstract. To describe the instructional quality of private tutoring lessons, the framework for out-of-school learning environments of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) ...
Challenges in Estimations of Trends in Large-Scale Assessments: A Calibration of the German PISA DataAbstract. International large-scale assessments, for instance, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), are conducted to provide ...
Abstract. Pictures are often used in standardized educational large-scale assessment (LSA), but their impact on test parameters has received little attention up until now. Even less is known about pictures’ affective effects on students in ...
Are Multiple-Choice Exams Useful for Universities? A Literature Review and Argument for a More Practice Oriented ResearchAbstract. Multiple-choice questions (MCQ) are particularly efficient in measuring achievement in large student groups. Due to the ...