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Using research investigating the effect of teacher assessment practices in secondary schooling in Croatia on student perceptions of fairness, this paper1 points out participating students’ perception of fairness of assessment, focusing on teacher assessment in three secondary school subjects, but particularly in the subject of English. The research overall included enquiry into the fairness of …

Evaluation is the result of a continuous, recursive and divergent development process for all stakeholders in the education system which involves a number of interaction effects. Throughout the history, the evaluation reflected what the teachers believed to be the education of a particular moment in given history. In professional and scientific literature, numerous definitions of …

Croatian civil society has for many years, slowly but surely, advanced in its vision and purpose. Due to the Croatian accession to the European Union, the civil society has acquired new possibilities for funding and implementation of a wide range of projects. In addition to these, the increasing importance of recognizing the skills and knowledge …

Quality assurance and improvement systems have become an indispensable and important part of every educational institutions in Europe and Croatia. The early days of their development were typically marked by activities aimed at evaluating the quality of teaching and teachers’ work, which was followed by those aimed at evaluating and improving other aspects of these …

This paper presents the results of a research on the impact of using the system Moodle in learning and teaching seventh graders the domain knowledge of the course in the Croatian language. The research was conducted by the Croatian language teachers and the second year graduate students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, …

This paper presents the results of empirical research of assessment criterion based on the opinions of Chemistry and Biology teachers in primary and secondary schools. The research was conducted on 212 teachers from all parts of Croatia whose opinions were collected through a specially designed questionnaire consisting of open and closed questions and the Likert …

The aim of this study was to determine differences between different age groups of children, due to the impact of increased security measures in kindergartens, which is related to the development of practical self-preservation skills and habits of children in their parents’ homes. The occasional sample of 208 parents in the “Maslačak” Kindergarten was examined, …

The center for quality assurance of the University of Split organized an online survey in which teachers from all university constituents shared their experiences with student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Within this survey, the teachers responded to three types of questions: about students, teacher and teaching quality. Out of the 1,833 teachers employed at the …

The purpose of this work was to study the position of art as a school subject through the evaluation, refl ection and attitudes of primary school eighth-graders. Thesurvey was conducted on the sample of 303 eighth-graders of primary schools in the Splitsko-dalmatinska County.We herein present the most signifi cant results of the survey: 54.5% of …