Purpose:Universities assess and evaluate students concerning competence in essential disciplinary knowledge and skills.Those assessments impact learners’attitudes,beliefs,and emotions.Negative impacts may be overcome...Purpose:Universities assess and evaluate students concerning competence in essential disciplinary knowledge and skills.Those assessments impact learners’attitudes,beliefs,and emotions.Negative impacts may be overcome if students regulate their responses to assessment and feedback.Design/Approach/Methods:This article systematically locates research studies that cite three key early papers around student conceptions of assessment(SCoA).A narrative synthesis is based on 22 papers.Findings:In addition to the SCoA,11 different research inventories reveal a variety of regulatory responses that are enhanced when assessments are deliberately formative,fair,and trustworthy.There is broad interest in this phenomenon but little consistency in methods,and even the SCoA has little consistency in factor structure across jurisdictions.Only one study provided an objective behavioral measure to validate self-reports,which are the dominant form of research.Originality/Value:This review gives readers insights into how assessment influences student thinking and how student cognition can regulate success.展开更多
A concept map is a schematic device for representing a set of concept meanings embedded in a framework of propositions.It can be used to evaluate students’knowledge structure.This article introduces the comparative s...A concept map is a schematic device for representing a set of concept meanings embedded in a framework of propositions.It can be used to evaluate students’knowledge structure.This article introduces the comparative study of Chinese and American secondary school students’knowledge structure.They are compared quantitatively and qualitatively in terms of mean score,individual proposition scores,proposition choice and map structure.The results indicate that students’knowledge structures in the two countries are remarkably different.Compared with American students,Chinese students’ability to take an exam is stronger and their mean score is higher.However,Chinese students need to improve their general knowledge and creativity although their basic knowledge is solid and they are better in mastering discipline knowledge and knowledge application.展开更多
文摘Purpose:Universities assess and evaluate students concerning competence in essential disciplinary knowledge and skills.Those assessments impact learners’attitudes,beliefs,and emotions.Negative impacts may be overcome if students regulate their responses to assessment and feedback.Design/Approach/Methods:This article systematically locates research studies that cite three key early papers around student conceptions of assessment(SCoA).A narrative synthesis is based on 22 papers.Findings:In addition to the SCoA,11 different research inventories reveal a variety of regulatory responses that are enhanced when assessments are deliberately formative,fair,and trustworthy.There is broad interest in this phenomenon but little consistency in methods,and even the SCoA has little consistency in factor structure across jurisdictions.Only one study provided an objective behavioral measure to validate self-reports,which are the dominant form of research.Originality/Value:This review gives readers insights into how assessment influences student thinking and how student cognition can regulate success.
文摘A concept map is a schematic device for representing a set of concept meanings embedded in a framework of propositions.It can be used to evaluate students’knowledge structure.This article introduces the comparative study of Chinese and American secondary school students’knowledge structure.They are compared quantitatively and qualitatively in terms of mean score,individual proposition scores,proposition choice and map structure.The results indicate that students’knowledge structures in the two countries are remarkably different.Compared with American students,Chinese students’ability to take an exam is stronger and their mean score is higher.However,Chinese students need to improve their general knowledge and creativity although their basic knowledge is solid and they are better in mastering discipline knowledge and knowledge application.
