↓ Skip to main content

Reconsidering the Use of Oral Exams and Assessments: An Old Way to Move Into a New Future

Overview of attention for article published in Educational Researcher, June 2025
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
3 X users
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
74 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
Reconsidering the Use of Oral Exams and Assessments: An Old Way to Move Into a New Future
Published in
Educational Researcher, June 2025
DOI 10.3102/0013189x251333638
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 74 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 74 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 17 23%
Researcher 4 5%
Lecturer 3 4%
Professor 3 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 4%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 32 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 17 23%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 34 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,207,936
of 34,166,306 outputs
Outputs from Educational Researcher
#176
of 1,344 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,540
of 356,618 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Educational Researcher
#2
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,166,306 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,344 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 356,618 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.