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Claims, Evidence and Achievement Level Descriptors as a Foundation for Item Design and Test Specifications
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Hendrickson, Amy; Huff, Kristen; Luecht, Ric – College Board, 2009
[Slides] presented at the Annual Meeting of National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in San Diego, CA in April 2009. This presentation describes how the vehicles for gathering student evidence--task models and test specifications--are developed.
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Construction, Evidence, Achievement
Aligning Items and Achievement Levels: A Study Comparing Expert Judgments
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Kaliski, Pamela; Huff, Kristen; Barry, Carol – College Board, 2011
For educational achievement tests that employ multiple-choice (MC) items and aim to reliably classify students into performance categories, it is critical to design MC items that are capable of discriminating student performance according to the stated achievement levels. This is accomplished, in part, by clearly understanding how item design…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Academic Achievement, Expertise, Evaluative Thinking
Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Middle Schools
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Bernhardt, Victoria L. – Eye on Education, 2004
This book helps you make sense of the data your school collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data. Easy-to-use templates, tools, and examples are available on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Student Evaluation, Data Analysis, Computer Uses in Education
9 Years of Research. [CD-ROM].
Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 2000
This CD-ROM contains more than 150 technical reports, 25 newsletters, 2 videos, numerous assessments, some scoring rubrics, guidebooks, and research articles, representing the comprehensive results and products from a long federal investment in K-12 assessment and evaluation research through the National Center for Research on Evaluation,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Optical Data Disks
Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Developers (Toolkit 98).
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Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1998
This Toolkit is a guide to assessing student achievement and making students partners in the educational enterprise by clearly defining expectations for performance and letting students in on them. It is essentially about performance-based instruction and the role of student assessment in guiding and invigorating practice. This volume, Volume I,…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading
A Resource Guide for the Determination of Learning Disabilities. Revised.
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Special Education. – 1980
Intended for special education personnel, the resource guide is designed to clarify the concept of learning disabilities, determine the nature of the data which must be collected to determine the presence or absence of learning disability, develop procedures for collecting the data, and interpret the data. Initial sections address P.L. 94-142 (the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
RIBYT--A Data Base System for Formal Testing and Self-Assessment.
Fuhs, F. Paul – 1980
The function and structure of a data base system called RIBYT (Review It Before You Test) is described. RIBYT simultaneously controls and associates questions in question pools for many courses of instruction. The data base stores questions created by both faculty and students and is used for formal testing and student self-assessment. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Data Collection, Databases