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Michelle Cheong – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Increasingly, students are using ChatGPT to assist them in learning and even completing their assessments, raising concerns of academic integrity and loss of critical thinking skills. Many articles suggested educators redesign assessments that are more 'Generative-AI-resistant' and to focus on assessing students on higher order…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Performance Based Assessment, Spreadsheets, Models
Jonathan Seiden – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Direct assessments of early childhood development (ECD) are a cornerstone of research in developmental psychology and are increasingly used to evaluate programs and policies in lower- and middle-income countries. Despite strong psychometric properties, these assessments are too expensive and time consuming for use in large-scale monitoring or…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Performance Based Assessment, Developmental Psychology
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Fu Chen; Ying Cui; Alina Lutsyk-King; Yizhu Gao; Xiaoxiao Liu; Maria Cutumisu; Jacqueline P. Leighton – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Post-secondary data literacy education is critical to students' academic and career success. However, the literature has not adequately addressed the conceptualization and assessment of data literacy for post-secondary students. In this study, we introduced a novel digital performance-based assessment for teaching and evaluating post-secondary…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, College Students, Information Literacy, Evaluation Methods
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Frank Goldhammer; Ulf Kroehne; Carolin Hahnel; Johannes Naumann; Paul De Boeck – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
The efficiency of cognitive component skills is typically assessed with speeded performance tests. Interpreting only effective ability or effective speed as efficiency may be challenging because of the within-person dependency between both variables (speed-ability tradeoff, SAT). The present study measures efficiency as effective ability…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Efficiency, Scores, Test Interpretation
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Ato Kwamina Arhin – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: This article aimed at digging deep into distractors used for mathematics multiple-choice items. The quality of distractors may be more important than their number and the stem in a multiple-choice question. Little attention is given to this aspect of item writing especially, mathematics multiple-choice questions. This article…
Descriptors: Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Mathematics Tests
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Yi-Chun Chen; Hsin-Kai Wu; Ching-Ting Hsin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background and Purpose: As a growing number of instructional units have been developed to promote young children's scientific and engineering practices (SEPs), understanding how to evaluate and assess children's SEPs is imperative. However, paper-and-pencil assessments would not be suitable for young children because of their limited reading and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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László Kojanitz – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
In 2005 the Hungarian school-leaving examination system underwent a significant transformation. In case of history the aim was to give a greater role to the development of students' knowledge acquisition and source analysis skills by more focusing on students' work with historical sources in classes. However, it was clear that the achievement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Minimum Competency Testing, Test Content
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Hayes, Heather; Demeter, Marylee; Morris, John G.; Trajkovski, Goran – Journal of Competency-Based Education, 2021
Performance assessments (PAs) offer a more authentic measure of higher order skills, which is ideal for competency-based education (CBE) especially for students already in the workplace and striving to advance their careers. The goal of the current study was to examine the validity of undergraduate PA score interpretation in the college of IT at a…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Undergraduate Students
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Saša Horvat; Dušica Rodic; Nevena Jovic; Tamara Roncevic; Snežana Babic-Kekez – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
The main goal of this study was to validate the strategy for the assessment of the cognitive complexity of chemical kinetics exam items. The strategy included three steps: 1) assessment of the difficulty of concepts, 2) assessment of distractor value, and 3) assessment of concepts' interactivity. One of the tasks was to determine whether there…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Performance Based Assessment, Chemistry, Thinking Skills
Matthias von Davier, Editor; Ann Kennedy, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has been monitoring international trends in reading achievement among fourth-grade students for 25 years. As a critical point in a student's education, the fourth year of schooling establishes the foundations of literacy, with reading becoming increasingly central to learning across all…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
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Sutadji, Eddy; Susilo, Herawati; Wibawa, Aji Prasetya; Jabari, Nidal A. M.; Rohmad, Syaiful Nur – Education Sciences, 2021
Assessment methods are important to create qualified graduates who are ready to face the real world. Authentic assessment is considered to be the most effective method to achieve this. The application of authentic assessment is often universal. However, there is a difference between natural sciences and social sciences. If it is used for different…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, College Faculty
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Villarroel, Verónica; Bruna, Daniela; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Bustos, Claudio – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This case study aimed to change the construction of teachers' written tests so that items were designed to assess competencies in an authentic and challenging way. A small group of five psychology teachers participated in 10 sessions of an authentic assessment faculty-training program, to learn to assess problem-solving competencies for situations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Made Tests, Performance Based Assessment
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Marzieh Souzandehfar – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
This study represents the inaugural attempt at assessing the authenticity of the tasks encompassed in the IELTS Speaking Module. The evaluation is conducted from the vantage points of applied linguistics and general education, and serves to enhance comprehension of authenticity and authentic assessment. In order to achieve this objective, an…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Applied Linguistics