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Stumpf, Heinrich; Mills, Carol J.; Brody, Linda E.; Baxley, Philip G. – Roeper Review, 2013
The importance of spatial ability for success in a variety of domains, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), is widely acknowledged. Yet, students with high spatial ability are rarely identified, as Talent Searches for academically talented students focus on identifying high mathematical and verbal abilities.…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Talent Identification, Academically Gifted, Screening Tests
Jones, Marshall B. – 1991
The microcomputer has increased interest in performance testing, which samples what a person can do rather than what he or she knows. Conventional psychometric theory is based on knowledge tests, but in performance testing the unit of analysis is a trial, and it is unreasonable to assume that mean performance and interim correlations are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Military Personnel, Performance Based Assessment
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Johnson, Sandra; Bell, John F. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1985
The assessment framework underlying a science performance monitoring program is process-oriented and intended to appeal to generalizability theory for a suitable estimation paradigm. Preliminary applications are described. Results suggest that computerized question-banking, domain-sampling of questions, and generalizablity theory together provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries