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Download full textSeyfarth, John T. – 1993
Performance based assessment refers to tasks that require students to construct responses or take actions to demonstrate specific knowledge or skills. Performance assessment tasks appear in a variety of formats, but they focus on higher order skills and are nonroutine, and sometimes loosely structured, in nature. A number of concerns have been…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Taylor, Ronald D. – 1993
A review of the recent literature has yielded a number of concerns about the validity, reliability, cost, efficiency, generalizability, utility, and cultural sensitivity of performance based assessments. The resulting conclusion was that continuing the performance based assessment initiative should be rethought. Suggested alternatives included…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Cultural Awareness, Educational Assessment
Can Portfolios Assess Student Performance and Influence Instruction? The 1991-92 Vermont Experience.
Koretz, Daniel; And Others – 1992
The results of an evaluation of Vermont's statewide assessment initiative are presented, with information about the implementation of the program, its effects on educational practice, the analytic challenge presented by the portfolio scoring process, the reliability and validity of portfolio scores, and the tensions between assessment and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Wilson, Leslie R.; And Others – 1988
The three chapters of this handbook are designed to insure that any school can use teacher-made tests and performance assessments as components of a learning assessment plan. Focus is on criterion-referenced achievement tests developed in Illinois for assessing the cognitive and psychomotor domains of learning. The initial chapter is designed for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedShavelson, Richard J.; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1992
Investigates the validity and reliability of performance assessments using data from over 300 fifth and sixth graders. Results demonstrate the gap between the reality of measurement through performance assessments and the political rhetoric that would institute these assessments in a national examination system in the immediate future. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Resnick, Lauren; And Others – 1993
The New Standards Project (NSP) is an effort to create a state- and district-based assessment and professional development system to serve as a catalyst for major educational reform. As part of a professional development strategy tied to assessment, 114 teachers, curriculum supervisors, and assessment directors, representing 23 states and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
