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On Performance Assessment: A Conversation with Grant Wiggins.
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Brandt, Ron – Educational Leadership, 1992
Assessment reforms might fail because high stakes will be attached to them too soon, judgments will be unreliable, and lawsuits will occur. Educators need to consider technical issues including score reliability, task validity, portfolio sampling, and generalizability problems. U.S. schools would improve considerably if national Advanced Placement…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Performance Based Assessment
Good Measure: Assessment as a Tool for Educational Reform.
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Wolf, Dennie Palmer; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1992
Presents an interim vision of a performance assessment model for middle schools that is built on a culture of high expectations, internal accountability, and rites of passage expressed in student portfolios. Despite problems with portfolio work, all students and teachers must have ongoing experience with demanding tasks and high standards. Test…
Descriptors: Accountability, Expectation, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
What We've Learned about Assessing Hands-On Science.
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Shavelson, Richard J.; Baxter, Gail P. – Educational Leadership, 1992
A recent study compared hands-on scientific inquiry assessment to assessments involving lab notebooks, computer simulations, short-answer paper-and-pencil problems, and multiple-choice questions. Creating high quality performance assessments is a costly, time-consuming process requiring considerable scientific and technological know-how. Improved…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Costs, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning