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Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi; Hart, Ian E. – Educational Media International, 2020
This paper describes the process of constructive alignment of the content and assessment of a first year university course on Digital Culture. Previous iterations of the course assessed the students using only written assignments, which proved to be problematic. In 2019 the course team decided to revise the assessment tasks in order to align them…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Alignment (Education), Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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Pufpaff, Lisa A.; Clarke, Laura; Jones, Ruth E. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
This paper addresses the effects of rater training on the rubric-based scoring of three preservice teacher candidate performance assessments. This project sought to evaluate the consistency of ratings assigned to student learning outcome measures being used for program accreditation and to explore the need for rater training in order to increase…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Interrater Reliability, Preservice Teachers, Scoring Rubrics
Liu, Ou Lydia; Schedl, Mary; Malloy, Jeanne; Kong, Nan – Educational Testing Service, 2009
The TOEFL iBT[TM] has increased the length of the reading passages in the reading section compared to the passages on the TOEFL[R] computer-based test (CBT) to better approximate academic reading in North American universities, resulting in a reduced number of passages in the reading test. A concern arising from this change is whether the decrease…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Internet, Computer Assisted Testing