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Martone, Andrea; Sireci, Stephen G. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
The authors (a) discuss the importance of alignment for facilitating proper assessment and instruction, (b) describe the three most common methods for evaluating the alignment between state content standards and assessments, (c) discuss the relative strengths and limitations of these methods, and (d) discuss examples of applications of each…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Alignment (Education), Student Evaluation, Curriculum Development
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Li, Heng; Wainer, Howard – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1997
Provides a general mathematical framework is provided that can be specialized to four different reliability coefficients. Consideration of this general framework makes it easier to convey to students the individual character of the formulations of reliability and the extent of their underlying similarity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Reliability, Teaching Methods, Test Theory
Suzuki, Kyoko; Harnisch, Delwyn L. – 1995
A new test theory for performance-based assessment is proposed. Criteria for "good" performance-based items, ways of measuring cognitive complexity, methods for determining maturity levels of understanding, and scaling systems are discussed. A performance-based task completed by 51 ninth and tenth graders in June 1993 was studied.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Criteria