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Finney, Sara J.; Sundre, Donna L.; Swain, Matthew S.; Williams, Laura M. – Educational Assessment, 2016
Accountability mandates often prompt assessment of student learning gains (e.g., value-added estimates) via achievement tests. The validity of these estimates have been questioned when performance on tests is low stakes for students. To assess the effects of motivation on value-added estimates, we assigned students to one of three test consequence…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Scores
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Zhuang, Xiaohua; MacCann, Carolyn; Wang, Lijuan; Liu, Lydia; Roberts, Richard D. – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
Various policy papers and research studies assert that teamwork is one of the most important skills for students to learn if they are to become meaningful contributors to the 21st century workforce. However, outside of organizational psychology and adult populations, few reliable assessments of this construct exist, with suitable validity evidence…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation