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Hickey, Daniel T.; Holbrook, Jennifer – 2000
This paper describes an assessment and evaluation effort occurring in the context of a middle school science curriculum development effort known as Learning by Design (LBD). The LBD approach builds on a body of cognitive science and professional education research that emphasizes learning from problem-solving experience. The assessment and…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Performance Based Assessment

Reckase, Mark D. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1995
An example application of portfolio assessment was developed and the model and estimates of reliability derived from the literature were then used to estimate the characteristics of an operational large-scale portfolio assessment program. Costs were estimated to put results in a realistic context. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Educational Assessment, Educational Theories, Models
Jones, Lex – 1996
In England and Wales, a National Curriculum initiated in 1988 was designed to ensure that all schools provided a curriculum which represented different areas of knowledge. The past 20 years has increasingly seen more emphasis on the link between the financial amounts spent on education and subsequent return on this money. The impact of the…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Performance Based Assessment
Novak, John R.; Winters, Lynn; Flores, Eugene – 2000
This paper describes the approach to consolidating multiple measures of student achievement used by the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) in the 1997-1998 reporting cycle. Beginning in 1996-1997, all California schools that served Title I students or were involved in the state's Coordinated Compliance Review process were required to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education

Ferrara, Steven; Huynh, Huynh; Michaels, Hillary – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1999
Provides hypothesized explanations for local item dependence (LID) in a large-scale hands-on science performance assessment involving approximately 55,000 students each at grades 3, 5, and 8. Items that appear to elicit locally dependent responses require examinees to answer and explain their answers or to use given or generalized information to…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Education, Hands on Science, Junior High Schools
Yen, Shu Jing; Bene, Nancy; Huynh, Huynh – 2000
Content integration in performance assessment involves mixing different areas of knowledge in one assessment. In this type of testing situation, assessment tasks are designed to measure the ability of students to solve problems by applying their knowledge and skills in multiple content areas. This study examined the effect of integrated science…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Performance Based Assessment, Reading Achievement
Li, Yuan H. – 2001
The primary objective of this study was to examine the construct validity of two multiple-content testing programs, the multiple-choice Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS/5) and the performance-based Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), by evaluating the true-score longitudinal associations among multiple-content scores…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Construct Validity, Correlation, Elementary Education
Sheppard, Valarie – 1995
This paper describes a testing program that established job-related standards of performance and testing procedures for the technician position within a gas transportation company. New standards were being established in response to safety concerns stemming from investigations that identified training inadequacy as a cause of accidents. The job…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests, Paraprofessional Personnel
Falk, Beverly; Ort, Suzanna – 1997
This paper contributes to the body of knowledge on new forms of assessment by examining the impact of teacher involvement in the scoring of standards-based performance assessments. Researchers studied 250 of 500 teachers who participated in a New York state project to pilot new state assessment prototypes. The National Center for Restructuring…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Kolls, Mardel R.; And Others – 1994
Trends in performance assessments across the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Illinois were explored through the development, administration, and analysis of an interstate survey. These four states were selected to represent the diversity of state-mandated testing programs relative to emphasis placed on performance assessment.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Cope, Ronald T. – 1995
This paper deals with the problems that arise in performance assessment from the granularity that results from having a small number of tasks or prompts and raters of responses to these tasks or prompts. Two problems are discussed in detail: (1) achieving a satisfactory degree of reliability; and (2) equating or adjusting for differences of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment, Equated Scores, High Stakes Tests
Li, Yuan H.; Ford, Valeria; Tompkins, Leroy J. – 1999
The purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity of a performance assessment program, the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP). Based on analyses of the longitudinal associations of Grade 5 MSPAP data in 1996 with Grade 3 MSPAP data in 1994, the following hypothesis was examined: the unattentuated correlation or…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Correlation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Leonard, John D. – 1996
In the context of the development of a possible national mathematics assessment, a study was conducted to determine whether a test item characterization scheme could be created based on a state policy document that serves as the driving force behind large-scale performance assessment. Further considerations were whether such an item…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education
Masters, Geofferey N. – 1991
The way in which the partial credit model is being used in one large education system to analyze performance on standard assessment tasks undertaken by all students in their final year of high school is described. The assessment tasks include investigative projects, laboratory tasks, worked problems, drawings and studio work, essays, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Hambleton, Ronald K.; Slater, Sharon – 1994
Considerable evidence suggests that policy-makers, educators, the media, and the public do not understand national and state test results. The problems appear to be two-fold: the scales on which scores are reported seem confusing, and the report forms themselves are often too complex for the intended audiences. This paper addresses two topics. The…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Performance