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Biernacki, Paulina – Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2022
The challenges and possibilities for improvement may vary across the three levels of an assessment system--classroom assessment, school or district assessment, and state-level accountability assessment. In this brief, the discussion of the challenges and possibilities focuses on these three levels and on two forms of assessment--formative and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Epistemology, Summative Evaluation
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Su, Hong – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Owing to the break-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, students have to take more online learning than offline, and large-scale education assessment programs have to be suspended or postponed. How could education assessment adapt to large-scale online learning? How could the effect and safety of online assessment be improved? What role should formative…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Pandemics, COVID-19, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Nick; Chamberlain, Laura – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
Aguirre-Urreta, Rönkkö, and Marakas' (2016) paper in "Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives" (hereafter referred to as ARM2016) is an important and timely piece of scholarship, in that it provides strong analytic support to the growing theoretical literature that questions the underlying ideas behind causal and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Causal Models, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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DeLuca, Christopher; Braund, Heather; Valiquette, Adelina; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2017
Given the longstanding role of grades in education, and their increased use for high-stakes decisions including student mobility, admission, selection, and accountability, this paper presents a systematic review of grading policies across all 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories. In total, 23 policies were inductively analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grading, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2012
Inclusive large-scale assessments have become the norm in states across the U.S. Participation rates of students with disabilities in these assessments have increased dramatically since the mid-1990s. As consortia of states move toward the development and implementation of assessment systems that include both non-summative assessments and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Disabilities, Measurement, Test Construction
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Kyngdon, Andrew – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Black, Wilson, and Yao (this issue) commendably attempt to put descriptive theory at the center of pedagogy, assessment, and curriculum. The thrust of their article is that only through theories of learning will student progression be properly understood. Casting a critical eye over the faddish distinction between "formative" and "summative"…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Nuclear Physics, Psychometrics, Misconceptions
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Keshavarz, Mohsen – Journal of Learning Design, 2011
Accreditation criteria of programs require effective learning outcomes, assessment with documented procedures, tools, results, and actions to close the assessment loop with broad faculty involvement. This article describes a methodology for providing quantitative measurement of a course's learning outcomes. The methodology uses a linkage matrix…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Measurement, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Edmund W. Gordon; Michael V. McGill; Deanna Iceman Sands; Kelley M. Kalinich; James W. Pellegrino; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present alternative views on the theory and practice of "formative assessment" (FA), or assessment to support teaching and learning in classrooms, with the purpose of highlighting its value in education and informing discussions on educational assessment policy. Methodology/approach: The method…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, School Districts, Educational Policy
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Perie, Marianne; Marion, Scott; Gong, Brian – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Local assessment systems are being marketed as formative, benchmark, predictive, and a host of other terms. Many so-called formative assessments are not at all similar to the types of assessments and strategies studied by Black and Wiliam (1998) but instead are interim assessments. In this article, we clarify the definition and uses of interim…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation
Harris, Douglas N. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ3), 2010
In this policy brief, the author explores the problems with attainment measures when it comes to evaluating performance at the school level, and explores the best uses of value-added measures. These value-added measures, the author writes, are useful for sorting out-of-school influences from school influences or from teacher performance, giving…
Descriptors: Principals, Observation, Teacher Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
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Ploegh, Karin; Tillema, Harm H.; Segers, Mien S. R. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2009
With the increasing popularity of peer assessment as an assessment tool, questions may arise about its measurement quality. Among such questions, the extent peer assessment practices adhere to standards of measurement. It has been claimed that new forms of assessment, require new criteria to judge their validity and reliability, since they aim for…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Measurement, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Heritage, Margaret; Kim, Jinok; Vendlinski, Terry; Herman, Joan – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Based on the results of a generalizability study of measures of teacher knowledge for teaching mathematics developed at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles, this article provides evidence that teachers are better at drawing reasonable inferences about student…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Testing, Inferences, Mathematics Instruction
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Nichols, Paul D.; Meyers, Jason L.; Burling, Kelly S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Assessments labeled as formative have been offered as a means to improve student achievement. But labels can be a powerful way to miscommunicate. For an assessment use to be appropriately labeled "formative," both empirical evidence and reasoned arguments must be offered to support the claim that improvements in student achievement can be linked…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tutoring, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Boldovici, John A.; Drucker, Eugene H. – 1979
Sources of confusion about the distinction between process and product measurement are identified, and the effect of the distinction on evaluation quality is shown. Process measurement involves the measure of behavior, performance of a task which generates no products, an independent variable or treatment, use in diagnosing performance, and means.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Measurement, Measurement Objectives
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Shepard, Lorrie A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
In many school districts, the pressure to raise test scores has created overnight celebrity status for formative assessment. Its powers to raise student achievement have been touted, however, without attending to the research on which these claims were based. Sociocultural learning theory provides theoretical grounding for understanding how…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Validity, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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