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Elliott, Stephen N.; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; McKevitt, Brian C.; Malecki, Christine Kerres – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The present study examined the effect accommodations have on test results of students with and without disabilities and documented experts' judgments about the appropriateness of testing accommodations. Test score data were collected from 218 fourth-grade students with and without disabilities on mathematics and science performance tasks and from…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Performance Based Assessment, Scores, Context Effect
Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of DISCOVER, a performance-based assessment in identifying gifted Lebanese students. The sample consisted of 248 students (121 boys, 127 girls) from grades 3-5 at two private schools in Beirut, Lebanon. Results showed evidence for DISCOVER's concurrent validity with the Raven Standard…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Identification, Gifted
Sak, Ugur; Maker, C. June – International Education Journal, 2005
In this study we investigated relationships between convergent and divergent thinking with an emphasis on fluency, originality, flexibility and elaboration in the mathematical domain. A related purpose was to examine relationships between problem types in mathematical tasks. The math section of a performance-based assessment was used to assess 857…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Creative Thinking, Convergent Thinking