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Shute, Valerie J.; Rahimi, Seyedahmad – Grantee Submission, 2021
Creativity has been of research interest to psychologists dating back many decades, and is currently recognized as one of the essential skills needed to succeed in our complex, interconnected world. One medium that has affordances to assess and support creativity in young people is video games. In this paper, we briefly discuss the literature on…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Physics, Educational Games
Klecker, Beverly M. – Online Submission, 2018
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation Programs (CAEP), required evidence of reliability and validity of measures used in a university's Educator Preparation Program (EPP). This paper describes processes that provided this evidence for the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA). Literature examined included Messick (1989), Linn…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Test Validity
Came, Deb; Taylor, Kathe – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2019
Washington is one of 36 states in the country that allows students to earn high school credit based on demonstrating subject area competency instead of completing hours of classroom instruction. Washington law (Revised Code of Washington [RCW] 28A.230.090) delegates to the State Board of Education (SBE) the responsibility of establishing…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Criterion Referenced Tests, Formative Evaluation, Equivalency Tests
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Lee, Dabae; Huh, Yeol; Lin, Chun-Yi; Reigeluth, Charles Morgan – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2022
Personalized learning (PL) has been internationally promoted as a future direction of educational reform efforts. While there is growing evidence of PL enhancing learning outcomes, teachers reported having difficulty envisioning PL in practice. This national survey study investigated how PL is practiced in K-12 learner-centered schools in the U.S.…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Individualized Instruction, Career Choice, Educational Change
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Sevilla Morales, Henry; Chaves Fernández, Lindsay – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2019
This research paper discusses the benefits and implications of bringing authentic assessment into listening comprehension classes. The study was run in 2016 based on a mixed-methods model to research and included 38 college students enrolled in a listening comprehension class at an English Teaching Major (ETM) from the University of Costa Rica…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests
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Paek, Sue Hyeon; Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
The criterion-related validity of divergent thinking (DT) tests has been questioned because of relatively low correlations between DT test scores and creative performance. A possible inhibiting factor in previous correlations--heterogeneity of the sample--has been ignored. If groups with different DT profiles are involved in this line of research,…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Tests, Creative Thinking