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Roth, Philip L.; Buster, Maury A.; Bobko, Philip – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
A number of applied psychologists have suggested that trainability test Black-White ethnic group differences are low or relatively low (e.g., Siegel & Bergman, 1975), though data are scarce. Likewise, there are relatively few estimates of criterion-related validity for trainability tests predicting job performance (cf. Robertson & Downs,…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Work Sample Tests, African Americans, Whites
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: Facing growing accountability pressures, Teacher Work Samples (TWSs) as a model of performance-based assessment is of growing significance in teacher education. Developed at Western Oregon University and widely adopted and adapted, proponents claim that the model is "real," "natural," "meaningful," and "helpful" (G. R. Girod, 2002).…
Descriptors: Work Sample Tests, Student Evaluation, Teacher Education, Evaluators
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Denner, Peter; Norman, Antony; Lin, Shu-Yuan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
Acknowledging the necessity to establish the fairness and consequential validity of teacher candidate performance assessments when they are used to make high-stakes decisions impacting entry into the profession, we investigated whether there were any adverse results from the use of the Renaissance Teacher Work Sample (TWS) assessment at two…
Descriptors: Work Sample Tests, Test Validity, Test Bias, Preservice Teachers