Jacqueline P Leighton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2747366 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jacqueline P Leighton |
| NOMBRES | Jacqueline P |
| APELLIDO | Leighton |
| FIRMA | LEIGHTON J P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8958-2470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Freedom to think aloud
The collection of think aloud data on critical thinking tasks requires participants, many of whom are postsecondary students, to engage with real-life and potentially controversial topics. Accuracy of verbal reports can be enhanced with clear instructions and by minimizing distracting events. For example, interviewers can minimize external distractions such as ambient noise by holding think aloud sessions in a quiet room. However, internal distra…
What Events in Canadian History Are Most Significant? A Survey of History Teachers
Historical significance is one of the most fundamental and inescapable aspects of history and history education. History teachers make countless decisions about the historical significance of events in their daily practice, but little research has focused on the criteria that history teachers use to decide which events in Canadian history are historically significant, the events in Canadian history teachers rate as most historically significant, …
Parental Self-Efficacy in Helping Children Succeed in School Favors Math Achievement
Parents play an important role in children’s academic achievement. The purpose of the present study was to explore the internal structure of an established parent survey and to investigate the relationships among different aspects of parental involvement in predicting children’s mathematics achievement. The study involved secondary data from 139 parents and math achievement scores of 121 elementary school-aged children. Guided by Hoover-Dempsey a…
Key Information Processes for Thinking Critically in Data-Rich Environments
The objective of the present paper is to propose a refined conception of critical thinking in data-rich environments. The rationale for refining critical thinking stems from the need to identify specific information processes that direct the suspension of prior beliefs and activate broader interpretations of data. Established definitions of critical thinking, many of them originating in philosophy, do not include such processes. A refinement of c…
University students’ negative emotions in a computer-based examination
Although the effectiveness and experiences of computer-based examinations is a widely investigated area of research, the question of whether and how computer-based assessment limits or heightens the experience of negative test emotions remains largely unexamined. Drawing from the control-value theory of achievement emotions, we investigated undergraduate students’ emotions during an authentic, course-based assessment in a computer-based testing e…
Engagement and Satisfaction
The risk-return trade-off
Background and AimsIn educational measurement, performance assessments occupy a niche for offering a true-to-life format that affords the measurement of high-level cognitive competencies and the evidence to draw inferences about intellectual capital. However, true-to-life formats also introduce myriad complexities and can skew if not outright distort the accuracy of inferences. For validating claims about test-takers from performance assessments,…
Undergraduate students’ attitudes towards mistakes in learning and academic achievement
The objective of the present study was to better understand a relatively under-researched topic, namely, undergraduate students’ attitudes towards mistakes and how their attitudes relate to academic achievement. A series of online surveys were administered to a sample of 207 first- and second-year undergraduate students. Using structural equational modelling, a hypothesised model was proposed to evaluate the following four research questions: (1)…
Reasoning and Problem Solving
This chapter provides a revised review of the psychological literature on reasoning and problem solving. Four classes of deductive reasoning are presented, including rule (mental logic) theories, semantic (mental model) theories, evolutionary theories, and heuristic theories. Major developments in the study of reasoning are also presented such as unified theories of reasoning and neuroscientific evidence for reasoning performance. The section on …
Assessment of Student Problem-Solving on Ill-Defined Tasks
Investigations of formal problem-solving are conducted with the expectation that they will predict or at least help understand informal or everyday problem-solving. For instance, if a student scores well on a multiple-choice physics exam, the expectation is that the student will also do well on an everyday physics problem. Traditionally the evaluation of problem-solving skills in educational testing and cognitiw psychology has been dominated by f…
The risk-return trade-off
Background and AimsIn educational measurement, performance assessments occupy a niche for offering a true-to-life format that affords the measurement of high-level cognitive competencies and the evidence to draw inferences about intellectual capital. However, true-to-life formats also introduce myriad complexities and can skew if not outright distort the accuracy of inferences. For validating claims about test-takers from performance assessments,…
Assessment of Student Problem-Solving on Ill-Defined Tasks
Investigations of formal problem-solving are conducted with the expectation that they will predict or at least help understand informal or everyday problem-solving. For instance, if a student scores well on a multiple-choice physics exam, the expectation is that the student will also do well on an everyday physics problem. Traditionally the evaluation of problem-solving skills in educational testing and cognitiw psychology has been dominated by f…
Assessment of Student Problem-Solving on Ill-Defined Tasks
Investigations of formal problem-solving are conducted with the expectation that they will predict or at least help understand informal or everyday problem-solving. For instance, if a student scores well on a multiple-choice physics exam, the expectation is that the student will also do well on an everyday physics problem. Traditionally the evaluation of problem-solving skills in educational testing and cognitiw psychology has been dominated by f…
Reasoning and Problem Solving
This chapter provides a revised review of the psychological literature on reasoning and problem solving. Four classes of deductive reasoning are presented, including rule (mental logic) theories, semantic (mental model) theories, evolutionary theories, and heuristic theories. Major developments in the study of reasoning are also presented such as unified theories of reasoning and neuroscientific evidence for reasoning performance. The section on …
Undergraduate students’ attitudes towards mistakes in learning and academic achievement
The objective of the present study was to better understand a relatively under-researched topic, namely, undergraduate students’ attitudes towards mistakes and how their attitudes relate to academic achievement. A series of online surveys were administered to a sample of 207 first- and second-year undergraduate students. Using structural equational modelling, a hypothesised model was proposed to evaluate the following four research questions: (1)…
The risk-return trade-off
Background and AimsIn educational measurement, performance assessments occupy a niche for offering a true-to-life format that affords the measurement of high-level cognitive competencies and the evidence to draw inferences about intellectual capital. However, true-to-life formats also introduce myriad complexities and can skew if not outright distort the accuracy of inferences. For validating claims about test-takers from performance assessments,…
Parental Self-Efficacy in Helping Children Succeed in School Favors Math Achievement
Parents play an important role in children’s academic achievement. The purpose of the present study was to explore the internal structure of an established parent survey and to investigate the relationships among different aspects of parental involvement in predicting children’s mathematics achievement. The study involved secondary data from 139 parents and math achievement scores of 121 elementary school-aged children. Guided by Hoover-Dempsey a…
Key Information Processes for Thinking Critically in Data-Rich Environments
The objective of the present paper is to propose a refined conception of critical thinking in data-rich environments. The rationale for refining critical thinking stems from the need to identify specific information processes that direct the suspension of prior beliefs and activate broader interpretations of data. Established definitions of critical thinking, many of them originating in philosophy, do not include such processes. A refinement of c…
University students’ negative emotions in a computer-based examination
Although the effectiveness and experiences of computer-based examinations is a widely investigated area of research, the question of whether and how computer-based assessment limits or heightens the experience of negative test emotions remains largely unexamined. Drawing from the control-value theory of achievement emotions, we investigated undergraduate students’ emotions during an authentic, course-based assessment in a computer-based testing e…
Engagement and Satisfaction
What Events in Canadian History Are Most Significant? A Survey of History Teachers
Historical significance is one of the most fundamental and inescapable aspects of history and history education. History teachers make countless decisions about the historical significance of events in their daily practice, but little research has focused on the criteria that history teachers use to decide which events in Canadian history are historically significant, the events in Canadian history teachers rate as most historically significant, …
Freedom to think aloud
The collection of think aloud data on critical thinking tasks requires participants, many of whom are postsecondary students, to engage with real-life and potentially controversial topics. Accuracy of verbal reports can be enhanced with clear instructions and by minimizing distracting events. For example, interviewers can minimize external distractions such as ambient noise by holding think aloud sessions in a quiet room. However, internal distra…
Psychology (10 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Mathematics education (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Cognitive psychology (3 obras) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (3 obras) · Think aloud protocol (3 obras) · Academic achievement (2 obras) · Applied Psychology (2 obras) · Cognition (2 obras)