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Stephen G. Sireci; Javier Suárez-Álvarez; April L. Zenisky; Maria Elena Oliveri – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
The goal in personalized assessment is to best fit the needs of each individual test taker, given the assessment purposes. Design-in-Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment reflects the progressive evolution in testing from a single test, to an adaptive test, to an adaptive assessment "system." In this article, we lay the foundation for DIRTy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Needs, Test Format, Test Construction
Florida Department of Education, 2021
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented herein are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection and use of appropriate student…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Test Selection
Woods, Julie – Education Commission of the States, 2017
Assessments come in many forms in part because they serve many purposes, and those purposes often vary by the stakeholders they support. Students, parents, teachers, and school, district and state leaders may all be end users of the information provided by various assessments. This brief supports state leaders' understanding of assessments by…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Guides
Herman, Joan L.; Osmundson, Ellen; Dietel, Ronald – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002) has produced an explosion of interest in the use of assessment to measure and improve student learning. Initially focused on annual state tests, educators quickly learned that results came too little and too late to identify students who were falling behind. At the same time, evidence from the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Formative Evaluation, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
Herman, Joan L.; Osmundson, Ellen; Dietel, Ronald – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2010
This report describes the purposes of benchmark assessments and provides recommendations for selecting and using benchmark assessments--addressing validity, alignment, reliability, fairness and bias and accessibility, instructional sensitivity, utility, and reporting issues. We also present recommendations on building capacity to support schools'…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
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Miller, Lynda – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2009
While formal, standardized assessment instruments provide valuable and necessary information about students' various abilities and skills, the use of informal and qualitative assessment approaches has the benefit of leading directly to instruction based squarely on an individual student's needs, strengths, and existing skills. This article…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Grade 6, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Evaluation
Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
Plake, Barbara S. – 1992
The "Mental Measurements Yearbook" (MMY) series has provided researchers and practitioners with availability and evaluative information about commercially available English-language tests for over 50 years. However, two myths exist that are believed by some users of these resources. The first myth is that there are some minimum quality…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Measurement Techniques
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Trafton, Paul – Arithmetic Teacher, 1987
Argues that tests should be used to improve instructional programs. Specific suggestions include the study of reports on test performance, item analysis on classroom tests, item analysis as a part of standardized test reports, use of diagnostic or inventory tests, and careful selection of test items. (PK)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Instructional Improvement
Meredith, Vana H. – 1981
The aim of the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program was to meet legislative requirements, to improve instruction and to integrate instructional sensitivity into the state's educational programs for grades K-12 in the basic skill areas of reading, writing and mathematics. In their task of identifying, compiling and revising educational…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives