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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Mat Daud, Nuraihan; Abu Kassim, Noor Lide – Journal of Applied Measurement, 2011
Students' evaluations of teaching staff can be considered high-stakes, as they are often used to determine promotion, reappointment, and merit pay to academics. Using Facets, the reliability and validity of one student rating questionnaire is analysed. A total of 13,940 respondents of the Human Science Division of International Islamic University…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Questionnaires, Validity, Reliability
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Bassiri, Dina; Schulz, E. Mathew – Journal of Applied Measurement, 2011
In this study, the Rasch rating scale model (Andrich, 1978) was applied to college grades of four freshman cohorts from a large public university. After editing, the data represented approximately 34,000 students, 1,700 courses and 119 departments. The rating scale model analysis yielded measures of student achievement and course difficulty.…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Courses, Difficulty Level, Academic Achievement
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Reeve, Suzanne; Kitchen, Elizabeth; Sudweeks, Richard R.; Bell, John D.; Bradshaw, William S. – Journal of Applied Measurement, 2011
This article describes the development of a ten-item scale to assess biology majors' self-efficacy towards the critical thinking and data analysis skills taught in an upper-division cell biology course. The original seven-item scale was expanded to include three additional items based on the results of item analysis. Evidence of reliability and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals), Biology