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Gitomer, Drew H.; Martínez, José Felipe; Battey, Dan; Hyland, Nora E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
The Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) is a system of standardized portfolio assessments of teaching performance mandated for use by educator preparation programs in 18 states, and approved in 21 others, as part of initial certification for preservice teachers. Because of the high stakes involved for examinees, it is critical that…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Patrick C. Kyllonen; Amit Sevak; Teresa Ober; Ikkyu Choi; Jesse Sparks; Daniel Fishtein – ETS Research Institute, 2024
Assessment refers to a broad array of approaches for measuring or evaluating a person's (or group of persons') skills, behaviors, dispositions, or other attributes. Assessments range from standardized tests used in admissions, employee selection, licensure examinations, and domestic and international largescale assessments of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Test Bias
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Putnam, Tara; Newton, Maria; Brusseau, Timothy; Burns, Ryan; Ziegenfuss, Donna; Franklin, Julia – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2021
Assessing teacher competence is a central focus of the growth and development of physical education teacher candidates. For subject matter competency, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation adopted Specialized Professional Associations (SPAs) for each academic discipline, which are used to establish specific standards and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Teacher Competencies
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Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
The Scylla and Charybdis in this discussion of teacher evaluation are standardized achievement test data on the one hand, and classroom observational systems on the other. These are the two most common methods used to judge teachers' competency. Both have serious flaws: the former primarily with validity, the latter primarily with reliability. At…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Problems, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests
Greenblatt, Deborah; O'Hara, Kate E. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2015
As states across the country continue their implementation of the Teacher Performance Assessment Portfolio (edTPA), a complex and high-stakes certification requirement for teacher certification, there are important lessons for educators and education advocates to learn from New York State's implementation. As Linda Darling-Hammond, developer and…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Program Implementation, Teacher Certification, Student Teacher Evaluation
Condon, Christopher; Clifford, Matthew – Learning Point Associates, 2010
This brief reviews the publicly available principal assessments and points superintendents and policy makers toward strong instruments to measure principal performance. Specifically, the measures included in this review are expressly intended to evaluate principal performance and have varying degrees of publicly available evidence of psychometric…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Job Performance, Psychometrics, Instructional Leadership
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McAllister, Sue; Lincoln, Michelle; Ferguson, Alison; McAllister, Lindy – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: Workplace-based learning is a critical component of professional preparation in speech pathology. A validated assessment of this learning is seen to be "the gold standard", but it is difficult to develop because of design and validation issues. These issues include the role and nature of judgement in assessment, challenges in…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology
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Callahan, Thomas J.; Strandholm, Karen; Dziekan, Julie – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
A regional business school chose to self develop an assessment test of the fundamental concepts of the undergraduate business core. Above and beyond the demands of AACSB accreditation, faculty identified feedback from such a test as an essential precursor to changing both overall curriculum and individual class content. The authors describe the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Business Administration Education, Performance Based Assessment
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Hatton, Chris; Wigham, Sarah; Craig, Jaime – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Background: There is an absence of research concerning the assessment of housing support worker job performance, particularly in the development of job performance measures that reflect the priorities of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. Method: A worker-oriented job analysis method was used to develop four short job…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Job Performance, Housing
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Brown, Glyn; Scott-Little, Catherine; Amwake, Lynn; Wynn, Lucy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2007
The report provides detailed information about the methods and instruments used to evaluate school readiness initiatives, discusses important considerations in selecting instruments, and provides resources and recommendations that may be helpful to those who are designing and implementing school readiness evaluations. Study results indicate that…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
Wang, Tianyou – 1996
In this paper, formulas for computing the weights that maximize the reliability of a test with multiple parts are derived using a congeneric model. A direct derivation for the three-part test and case and a two-step derivation for the n-part case are presented, and results for these two approaches are shown to be consistent for the three-part…
Descriptors: Computation, Equations (Mathematics), Matrices, Performance Based Assessment
Harrington-Lueker, Donna – Executive Educator, 1991
Performance-based assessment, the umbrella term for various measures to test higher order thinking skills beyond the reach of multiple-choice tests, is the front runner in the race to provide testing alternatives. Problems concerning training, reliability, and cost remain unresolved. A sidebar summarizes testing developments in Arizona,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment
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Brennan, Robert L. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1995
Generalizability theory is used to show that the assumption that reliability for groups is greater than that for persons (and that error variance for groups is less than that for persons) is not necessarily true. Examples are provided from course evaluation and performance test literature. (SLD)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Decision Making, Equations (Mathematics), Generalizability Theory
Zwick, Rebecca; And Others – 1993
Although the belief has been expressed that performance assessments are intrinsically more fair than multiple-choice measures, some forms of performance assessment may in fact be more likely than conventional tests to tap construct-irrelevant factors. As performance assessment grows in popularity, it will be increasingly important to monitor the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Item Bias, Multiple Choice Tests, Performance Based Assessment
Jiang, Ying Hong; And Others – 1997
As performance-based assessments have gained wider use, there are increasing concerns about their dependability. This study is a synthesis of existing studies regarding the reliability or generalizability of performance assessments. The meta-analysis involves summarizing, examining, and evaluating research findings. Articles on the dependability…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics), Generalizability Theory, Judges
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