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Ben Erwin; Shayna Levitan – Education Commission of the States, 2024
Summative assessments measure students' mastery of grade-level academic standards and skills in specific content areas after learning. State summative assessment systems provide students and families, school and district leaders, and state policymakers with valuable data to help understand student progress and school quality. This Policy Guide…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Federal State Relationship, Public Policy
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Albacete, Patricia; Silliman, Scott; Jordan, Pamela – Grantee Submission, 2017
Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), like human tutors, try to adapt to student's knowledge level so that the instruction is tailored to their needs. One aspect of this adaptation relies on the ability to have an understanding of the student's initial knowledge so as to build on it, avoiding teaching what the student already knows and focusing on…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Knowledge Level, Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
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Thissen, David – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
David Thissen, a professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Quantitative Program at the University of North Carolina, has consulted and served on technical advisory committees for assessment programs that use item response theory (IRT) over the past couple decades. He has come to the conclusion that there are usually two purposes…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Construction, Testing Problems, Student Evaluation
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Demmans Epp, Carrie; Park, Gina; Plumb, Christopher – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
The increased linguistic and cultural diversity of undergraduate classrooms at English language institutions has imposed additional pedagogical and assessment challenges on instructors, many of whom lack the knowledge necessary to design classroom activities and assessments that are fair to all students regardless of students' background and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
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Lee, Jaemu; Park, Sanghoon; Kim, Kwangho – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) has been highlighted as a promising assessment method to fulfill two testing purposes: estimating student academic ability and classifying student academic level. In this paper, assessment for we introduced the Web-based Adaptive Testing System (WATS) developed to support a cost effective assessment for classifying…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Support Services, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Willhoft, Joseph L. – School Administrator, 2012
Through the Common Core State Standards and the development of new assessments aligned to the standards, the public education system is undergoing a transformation--and administrators can help make this vision a reality. Today, more than 45 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. The standards, however,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education), Computer Assisted Testing
Huang, Jingshan; He, Lei; Davidson-Shivers, Gayle V. – Online Submission, 2011
Effective assessment is vital in educational activities. We propose IWAS (intelligent Web-based assessment system), an intelligent, generalized and real-time system to assess both learning and teaching. IWAS provides a foundation for more efficiency in instructional activities and, ultimately, students' performances. Our contributions are…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Probability, Internet
Ash, Katie – Education Week, 2008
This article discusses the growing interest in computer-adaptive testing, which supporters say can help guide instruction, increase student motivation, and determine the best use of resources for districts. This method of testing shortens the test by not asking high-achieving students questions that are too easy for them, and likewise not giving…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Student Motivation
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Chatzopoulou, D. I.; Economides, A. A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
This paper presents Programming Adaptive Testing (PAT), a Web-based adaptive testing system for assessing students' programming knowledge. PAT was used in two high school programming classes by 73 students. The question bank of PAT is composed of 443 questions. A question is classified in one out of three difficulty levels. In PAT, the levels of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Prior Learning, Programming, High School Students
Sie Hoe, Lau; Ngee Kiong, Lau; Kian Sam, Hong; Bin Usop, Hasbee – Online Submission, 2009
Assessment is central to any educational process. Number Right (NR) scoring method is a conventional scoring method for multiple choice items, where students need to pick one option as the correct answer. One point is awarded for the correct response and zero for any other responses. However, it has been heavily criticized for guessing and failure…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Scoring
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Glas, Cees A. W.; Geerlings, Hanneke – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2009
Pupil monitoring systems support the teacher in tailoring teaching to the individual level of a student and in comparing the progress and results of teaching with national standards. The systems are based on the availability of an item bank calibrated using item response theory. The assessment of the students' progress and results can be further…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Adaptive Testing, National Standards, Psychometrics
Mar, Harvey – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2010
This fact sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions about psychological evaluations for infants, children and adults who are deaf-blind, we hope to clarify the evaluation process and the active roles that may be taken by everyone who is involved--family members, professionals, educators, and the student. Finally, by discussing quality…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Children, Psychological Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Molina, Maria Teresa Lopez-Mezquita – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
Lexical competence is considered to be an essential step in the development and consolidation of a student's linguistic ability, and thus the reliable assessment of such competence turns out to be a fundamental aspect in this process. The design and construction of vocabulary tests has become an area of special interest, as it may provide teachers…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
Hamilton, Laura S.; Klein, Stephen P.; Lorie, William – 2000
This paper describes an approach to large-scale assessment that uses tests that are delivered to students over the Internet and that are tailored (adapted) to each student's own level of proficiency. A brief background on large-scale assessment is followed by a description of this new technology and an example. Issues that need to be investigated…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Test Construction
Schafer, William D; Johnson, Charles E. – 1985
This paper presents examples of effective uses of microcomputers to support basic statistics instruction. All programs are written in Applesoft BASIC for Apple II Plus microcomputers and compatible equipment. They have been field tested in statistics courses at the University of Maryland. Microcomputers can be used with color monitors for…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Courseware
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