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Lim, Gad S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Performance assessments have become the norm for evaluating language learners' writing abilities in international examinations of English proficiency. Two aspects of these assessments are usually systematically varied: test takers respond to different prompts, and their responses are read by different raters. This raises the possibility of undue…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Language Tests, Performance Tests, Test Validity
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Reed, Catherine L.; Grubb, Jefferson D.; Steele, Cleophus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
This study explored whether hand location affected spatial attention. The authors used a visual covert-orienting paradigm to examine whether spatial attention mechanisms--location prioritization and shifting attention--were supported by bimodal, hand-centered representations of space. Placing 1 hand next to a target location, participants detected…
Descriptors: Cues, Needs Assessment, Spatial Ability, Attention
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Meiran, Nachshon; Friedman, Gilad; Yehene, Eynat – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Ten Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients and 10 control participants were tested using a task-switching paradigm in which there was a random task sequence, and the task was cued in every trial. Five PD patients showed a unique error profile. Their performance approximated guessing when accuracy was dependent on correct task identification, and was…
Descriptors: Patients, Neurological Impairments, Models, Task Analysis