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Download full textSmarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2020
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2019
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2018
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Disabilities
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
Maine Department of Education, 2004
The purpose of "Considering Consistency" is to provide conceptual and procedural guidance regarding reliability within the context of a local assessment system. Some of this document's contents echo "Measured Measures." For instance, methods for estimating the reliability of individual assessments, particularly as appropriate for…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Test Reliability, Performance Based Assessment, Guidance
Peer reviewedCasby, Michael W.; Cumpata, Joellen F. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1986
The article presents a protocol for the assessment of prelinguistic intentional communication with young and/or severely language-impaired children. A set of tasks and scoring procedures are presented for the elicitation of proto-declarative and proto-imperative behaviors. Data are presented to support reliability. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Evaluation Methods, Language Handicaps, Nonverbal Communication
Morris, Lynn Lyons; Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor; Lindheim, Elaine – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the seventh in the kit, provides an overview of a variety of approaches to measuring performance outcomes. It presents considerations in deciding what to measure and in selecting or developing instruments best suited to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Performance Tests, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedBerk, Ronald A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1980
A dozen different approaches that yield 13 reliability indices for criterion-referenced tests were identified and grouped into three categories: threshold loss function, squared-error loss function, and domain score estimation. Indices were evaluated within each category. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedWiley, David C.; Hendricks, Charlotte M. – Journal of School Health, 1998
This paper reviews the reliability of picture identification tools for assessing preschool children in previous studies; provides recommendations for assessing the health knowledge of preschool children; and suggests ways that health knowledge data can be used appropriately in early childhood education programs. (SM)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Health Education, Knowledge Level, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedRyser, Gail R. – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1994
The meanings of reliability and validity as they apply to standardized measures are used as a framework for applying the concepts of reliability and validity to authentic assessments. This article sees reliability as scorability and stability, whereas validity is seen as students' ability to use knowledge authentically in the field. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment, Reliability
Brown, William R. – 1988
The evaluation tools written by teachers are rarely valid or reliable. One teaching aid that can help in the creation of an effective evaluation instrument is called a test map. A test map is a systematic method to consider variables that are important in the construction of the format of a test. Five variables that are discussed in the test…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedNimmer, Donald N. – Clearing House, 1983
Outlines the benefits associated with true-false and multiple-choice tests and sets forth rules for writing effective items for such tests. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests
Peer reviewedEvans, Larry D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
This article provides the equations necessary to derive a single composite score based on two achievement scores measuring the same discrepancy area in students with learning disabilities. Also provided are the equations necessary to determine the composite score's reliability and its correlation with an IQ score. (CR)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equations (Mathematics)
Assessment in Counseling: A Guide to the Use of Psychological Assessment Procedures. Second Edition.
Hood, Albert B.; Johnson, Richard W. – 1997
Assessment has always played an important role in counseling. This book provides information about the various psychological assessment procedures that are relevant for practicing counselors. The text deals with the use of tests that are most often employed by counselors and it includes case studies. Its purpose is to help counselors become better…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counselors, Developmental Psychology, Evaluation Methods
Rudner, Lawrence M. – 1994
The "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education are intended to provide a comprehensive basis for evaluating tests. This digest identifies key standards applicable to most test…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Norms
