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Jane Marie Souza Ed.; Tara A. Rose Ed. – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2023
In this second volume of the successful "Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education," editors Souza and Rose share examples of assessment practice from over fifteen distinct and diverse higher education institutions, including international contributions. Building upon the work of the first volume, the case studies in this book reflect…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Career Readiness, Distance Education
Moodie, Shannon; Daneri, Paula; Goldhagen, Samantha; Halle, Tamara; Green, Katie; LaMonte, Lauren – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2014
For children age birth to five, physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional growth and development occur at a rapid pace. While all children in this age range may not reach developmental milestones (e.g., smiling, saying first words, taking first steps) at the same time, development that does not happen within an expected timeframe can…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Screening Tests, Measurement Techniques
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2014
New Teacher Evaluation and Support Systems were fully implemented in every public school during the 2012-13 school year. Rhode Island educators have had a significant voice in revising the Student Learning Objective (SLO) process for the 2013-14 school year. Through surveys, focus groups, working groups, principal shadows, regional meetings, and…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities, Scoring
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
No one has a bigger stake in teaching effectiveness than students. Nor are there any better experts on how teaching is experienced by its intended beneficiaries. Only recently have many policymakers and practitioners come to recognize that--when asked the right questions, in the right ways--students can be an important source of information on the…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Test Validity
Pinxten, Maarten; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan; D'Haenens, Ellen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: The relation between academic self-concept and achievement has been examined in a large number of studies. The majority of these studies have found evidence for a reciprocal effects model. However, there is an ongoing debate on how students' achievement should be measured and whether the type of achievement indicator (grades, tests,…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Retention (Psychology)
Jiao, Hong – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
Diagnostic assessment is currently an active research area in educational measurement. Literature related to diagnostic modeling has been in existence for several decades, but a great deal of research has been conducted within the last decade or so, especially within the last five years. The author summarizes the key components in the application…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Literature Reviews, Test Items, Probability
Jerald, Craig D.; Van Hook, Kristan – National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2011
Teacher evaluation has emerged as a major focus for reform at the highest levels of education policymaking, and for good reason. Most evaluations are based on scant evidence of actual effectiveness, produce inflated ratings, and provide teachers with little useful feedback. This paper offers policymakers and practitioners important "lessons…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Caselman, Tonia D.; Self, Patricia A. – Children & Schools, 2008
Early identification of social-emotional behavioral problems in infants and preschoolers is critical. Nine parent-report and caregiver/teacher-report instruments measuring preschool social-emotional behavioral problems and strengths are reviewed. Advantages to the use of parent-report and caregiver/teacher-report instruments are that they are easy…
Descriptors: Identification, Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods, Child Caregivers

Pedrini, D.T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – Education, 1982
For faculty or staff evaluations where competition is involved (e.g., for so-called merit pay), randomly paired comparisons are strongly recommended. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Personnel Evaluation

Howing, Phyllis T.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Reviews a variety of instruments that child welfare workers can use in the assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Focuses on self-report inventories, behavior rating scales, structured interviews, and observational coding systems. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. Test Center. – 1995
This annotated bibliography features some of the current holdings of the Test Center at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (Oregon) lending library on the topic of alternative assessment. There are two sections to the bibliography: a listing of the articles in alphabetical order by primary author, and an index. A set of descriptors was…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Assessment, Evaluation

Weller, L. David; And Others – Clearing House, 1983
Proposes a data-based method for curriculum development that clearly displays priorities, provides a sound base for making curriculum decisions, and helps in eliminating community misunderstandings regarding those decisions (FL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Zatkin, Judith; And Others – 1983
A scaling procedure has been developed for ordering binary parallelogram preference data. The procedure uses minimum variance of the item ranks averaged across persons as the optimization criterion. Two seriation strategies are employed. One is pairwise interchange. The second joins together the vector end points and breaks this circle between…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Item Analysis, Measurement Techniques

Bagnato, Stephen J.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1986
The article summarizes a typology of 21 selected curriculum-based assessment (CBA) measures available to early childhood specialists serving handicapped children, including normal developmental CBA scales, adaptive measures, handicap-specific instruments, strategy-matched materials, and curriculum-referenced measures. (Author/JW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities
Curriculum-Based Assessment and Direct Instruction: Critical Reflections on Fundamental Assumptions.

Heshusius, Lous – Exceptional Children, 1991
This article argues that curriculum-based assessment and direct instruction are not models of assessment and instruction for human learning but isolated sets of measurement and control procedures. The paper advocates holistic understandings of assessment that directly emerge from human aspects of learning and teaching and from understandings of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Approach, Measurement Techniques