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Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2024
Large introductory classes, with their expansive curriculum, demand assessment strategies that blend efficiency with reliability, prompting the consideration of multiple-choice (MC) tests as a viable option. Crafting a high-quality MC test, however, necessitates a meticulous process involving reflection on assessment format appropriateness, test…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Construction, Test Items, Alignment (Education)
Bryan R. Drost; Char Shryock – Phi Delta Kappan, 2025
Creating assessment questions aligned to standards is a time-consuming task for teachers, but large language models such as ChatGPT can help. Bryan Drost & Char Shryock describe a three-step process for using ChatGPT to create assessments: 1) Ask ChatGPT to break standards into measurable targets. 2) Determine how much time to spend on each…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
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Wan, Siyu; Keller, Lisa A. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
Statistical process control (SPC) charts have been widely used in the field of educational measurement. The cumulative sum (CUSUM) is an established SPC method to detect aberrant responses for educational assessments. There are many studies that investigated the performance of CUSUM in different test settings. This paper describes the CUSUM…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Item Response Theory
Miranda Kucera; K. Kawena Begay – Communique, 2025
While the field advocates for a diversified and comprehensive professional role (National Association of School Psychologists, 2020), school psychologists have long spent most of their time in assessment-related activities (Farmer et al., 2021), averaging about eight cognitive evaluations monthly (Benson et al., 2020). Assessment practices have…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Standardized Tests
Miranda Kucera; K. Kawena Begay – Communique, 2025
In Part 1 of this series, the authors briefly reviewed some challenges inherent in using standardized tools with students who are not well represented in norming data. To help readers clearly conceptualize the framework steps, the authors present two case studies that showcase how a nonstandardized approach to assessment can be individualized to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Standardized Tests
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Rao, N. J.; Banerjee, Shilpi – Higher Education for the Future, 2023
Classroom assessment is the process of documenting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs of learners. It provides essential feedback to both instructors and students to improve their teaching methods for guiding and motivating students to be actively involved in their learning. Assessment drives learning. Formative assessments enable the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Achieve, Inc., 2019
In 2013, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), working collaboratively with state education agencies, released a set of criteria for states to use to evaluate and procure high-quality assessments. The mathematics section of the document included five content-specific criteria to evaluate alignment of assessments to college- and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Criteria, Cognitive Processes
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Thomas Bickerton, Robert; Sangwin, Chris J. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
We discuss a practical method for assessing mathematical proof online. We examine the use of faded worked examples and reading comprehension questions to understand proof. By breaking down a given proof, we formulate a checklist that can be used to generate comprehension questions which can be assessed automatically online. We then provide some…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Validity, Mathematical Logic, Evaluation Methods
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Patra, Rakesh; Saha, Sujan Kumar – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Assessment plays an important role in learning and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are quite popular in large-scale evaluations. Technology-enabled learning necessitates a smart assessment. Therefore, automatic MCQ generation became increasingly popular in the last two decades. Despite a large amount of research effort, system generated MCQs are…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, High Stakes Tests, Semantics, Evaluation Methods
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Lynch, Sarah – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2022
In today's digital age, tests are increasingly being delivered on computers. Many of these computer-based tests (CBTs) have been adapted from paper-based tests (PBTs). However, this change in mode of test administration has the potential to introduce construct-irrelevant variance, affecting the validity of score interpretations. Because of this,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Tests, Scores, Scoring
Achieve, Inc., 2019
Assessment is a key lever for educational improvement. Assessments can be used to monitor, signal, and influence science teaching and learning -- provided that they are of high quality, reflect the rigor and intent of academic standards, and elicit meaningful student performances. Since the release of "A Framework for K-12 Science…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Evaluation Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Test Items
Schulz, Wolfram; Fraillon, Julian; Losito, Bruno; Agrusti, Gabriella; Ainley, John; Damiani, Valeria; Friedman, Tim – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
The purpose of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) is to investigate the changing ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens across a wide range of countries. This assessment framework provides a conceptual underpinning for the international instrumentation for ICCS 2022. It needs to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Context Effect, Guidelines, Course Content
Liu, Kristin K.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Jarmin, Jaime; Ward, Jenna; Christensen, Laurene – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2020
This report is an update of the assessment principles and guidelines for English language learners published in 2013 (Thurlow, Liu, Ward, & Christensen). That report, which was developed by the Improving the Validity of Assessment Results for English Language Learners with Disabilities (IVARED) project, presented essential principles of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Spurgeon, Shawn L. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2017
Construct irrelevance (CI) and construct underrepresentation (CU) are 2 major threats to validity, yet they are rarely discussed within the counseling literature. This article provides information about the relevance of these threats to internal validity. An illustrative case example will be provided to assist counselors in understanding these…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
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Shangraw, Rebecca – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2017
The Domain Five Observation Instrument (DFOI) is a competency-based observation instrument recommended for sport leaders or researchers who wish to evaluate coaches' instructional behaviors. The DFOI includes 10 behavior categories and four timed categories that encompass 34 observable instructional benchmarks outlined in domain five of the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Coaching (Performance), Evaluation Methods, Teacher Behavior
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