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Stephen G. Sireci; Javier Suárez-Álvarez; April L. Zenisky; Maria Elena Oliveri – Grantee Submission, 2024
The goal in personalized assessment is to best fit the needs of each individual test taker, given the assessment purposes. Design-In-Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment reflects the progressive evolution in testing from a single test, to an adaptive test, to an adaptive assessment "system." In this paper, we lay the foundation for DIRTy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Needs, Test Format, Test Construction
Stephen G. Sireci; Javier Suárez-Álvarez; April L. Zenisky; Maria Elena Oliveri – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
The goal in personalized assessment is to best fit the needs of each individual test taker, given the assessment purposes. Design-in-Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment reflects the progressive evolution in testing from a single test, to an adaptive test, to an adaptive assessment "system." In this article, we lay the foundation for DIRTy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Needs, Test Format, Test Construction
David Eubanks; Scott A. Moore – Assessment Update, 2025
Assessment and institutional research offices have too much data and too little time. Standard reporting often crowds out opportunities for innovative research. Fortunately, advancements in data science now offer a clear solution. It is equal parts technique and philosophy. The first and easiest step is to modernize data work. This column…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Data Science, Research Methodology
Florida Department of Education, 2022
All Florida schools teach the Florida Standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics and the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) in Science and Social Studies. Student performance provides important information to parents/guardians, teachers, policy makers, and the general public regarding how well students are learning.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, State Standards, Language Arts, Mathematics
Weicong Lyu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Item response theory (IRT) is currently the dominant methodological paradigm in educational and psychological measurement. IRT models are based on assumptions about the relationship between latent traits and observed responses, so the accuracy of the methodology depends heavily on the reasonableness of these assumptions. This dissertation consists…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Educational Assessment, Psychological Testing, Psychometrics
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Brookhart, Susan M.; Ghere, Gail; Liu, Kristin K. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2022
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of how students with disabilities, including students with significant cognitive disabilities and English learners with disabilities, can be included in local assessments used for instructional and programmatic decision making--that is, for formative purposes. This article focuses on formative…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation
Yang Du; Susu Zhang – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
Item compromise has long posed challenges in educational measurement, jeopardizing both test validity and test security of continuous tests. Detecting compromised items is therefore crucial to address this concern. The present literature on compromised item detection reveals two notable gaps: First, the majority of existing methods are based upon…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Item Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Educational Assessment
Florida Department of Education, 2021
All Florida schools teach the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics and the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) in Science and Social Studies. Student performance provides important information to parents/guardians, teachers, policy makers, and the general public regarding how well students…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, State Standards, Language Arts, Mathematics
Venie Gupitasari; Heri Retnawati – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Assessment is an important component of learning which aims to determine student achievement in learning. However, the pandemic has changed how assessment is carried out, prompting teachers to look for new strategies in carrying out mathematics learning assessments under any conditions, whether in normal conditions or during a pandemic. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Student Evaluation
Florida Department of Education, 2020
All Florida schools teach the Florida Standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics. Student performance on the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) provides important information to parents/guardians, teachers, policy makers, and the general public regarding how well students are learning the Florida Standards. This document has been…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, State Standards, Language Arts, Mathematics
Florida Department of Education, 2020
All Florida schools teach the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics and the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) in Science and Social Studies. Student performance provides important information to parents/guardians, teachers, policy makers, and the general public regarding how well students…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, State Standards, Language Arts, Mathematics
Dorsey, David W.; Michaels, Hillary R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2022
We have dramatically advanced our ability to create rich, complex, and effective assessments across a range of uses through technology advancement. Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled assessments represent one such area of advancement--one that has captured our collective interest and imagination. Scientists and practitioners within the domains…
Descriptors: Validity, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Evaluation Methods
Shutao Wang; Lujing Tang; Junwei Bao – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Against the backdrop of global transformations in university admission systems, the quest for an enrolment paradigm that efficiently identifies and selects high-quality students has gained paramount significance. With the help of propensity score matching (PSM), this study controlled students' backgrounds and compared the performance of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Admission, College Applicants
Richardson, Mary – UCL Press, 2022
Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is easy to feel that schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments, and that assessment is only about exam results. The idea that test grades can accurately describe the aims and outcomes of education is unfair and reductive. Yet it is a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Trust (Psychology), Tests, Grades (Scholastic)
Federica Picasso – Research on Education and Media, 2024
In the current higher education context, the development of academics' competencies seems to be a crucial issue, with a strong focus on teaching, learning and assessment digital skills (Redecker & Punie, 2017). In connection with the framework of DigCompEdu (2017), it seems important to understand how to better sustain academics' new…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response), Evaluation Methods