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Payne, Pamela B.; McDonald, Daniel A. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Community-based education programs must demonstrate effectiveness to various funding sources. The pilot study reported here (funded by CYFAR, NIFA, USDA award #2008-41520-04810) had the goal of determining if state level programs with varied curriculum could use a common evaluation tool to demonstrate efficacy. Results in parenting and youth…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Extension Education, State Programs, Evaluation Methods
Anderson, Daniel; Farley, Dan; Tindal, Gerald – Journal of Special Education, 2015
Students with significant cognitive disabilities present an assessment dilemma that centers on access and validity in large-scale testing programs. Typically, access is improved by eliminating construct-irrelevant barriers, while validity is improved, in part, through test standardization. In this article, one state's alternate assessment data…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests
Südkamp, Anna; Pohl, Steffi; Weinert, Sabine – Frontline Learning Research, 2015
Including students with special educational needs in learning (SEN-L) is a challenge for large-scale assessments. In order to draw inferences with respect to students with SEN-L and to compare their scores to students in general education, one needs to assure that the measurement model is reliable and that the same construct is measured for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Inclusion, Competence
Higgins, Ryan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In support of the national movement to improve mathematics instruction and assessment, states and districts are looking for the best tools to measure student progress toward proficiency. There is a national dialogue about how to use 8th-grade measurements like ACT EXPLORE and NAEP as predictors of student success and school accountability. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Tests, Student Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg; Zhao, Chun-Mei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
Throughout the world, measuring "learning outcomes" is viewed by many stakeholders as a relatively new method to judge the "value added" of colleges and universities. The potential to accurately measure learning gains is also a diagnostic tool for institutional self-improvement. This essay discussed the marketisation of…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Outcomes Assessment, Commercialization, Student Evaluation
Gardner, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
Evidence from recent research suggests that in the UK the public perception of errors in national examinations is that they are simply mistakes; events that are preventable. This perception predominates over the more sophisticated technical view that errors arise from many sources and create an inevitable variability in assessment outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Public Opinion, Error of Measurement, Foreign Countries
Mislevy, Robert J.; Haertel, Geneva; Cheng, Britte H.; Ructtinger, Liliana; DeBarger, Angela; Murray, Elizabeth; Rose, David; Gravel, Jenna; Colker, Alexis M.; Rutstein, Daisy; Vendlinski, Terry – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
Standardizing aspects of assessments has long been recognized as a tactic to help make evaluations of examinees fair. It reduces variation in irrelevant aspects of testing procedures that could advantage some examinees and disadvantage others. However, recent attention to making assessment accessible to a more diverse population of students…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Access to Education, Testing, Psychometrics
Brady, Nancy C.; Fleming, Kandace; Thiemann-Bourque, Kathy; Olswang, Lesley; Dowden, Patricia; Saunders, Muriel D.; Marquis, Janet – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: Accurate description of an individual's communication status is critical in both research and practice. Describing the communication status of individuals with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities is difficult because these individuals often communicate with presymbolic means that may not be readily recognized. Our goal was…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Standardized Tests, Developmental Disabilities, Interrater Reliability
Baly, Michael W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is comprised of three manuscripts and presents a line of research aimed at improving the measurement of bullying in schools. The first manuscript investigated the impact of an educational video on self-reports of bullying. A sample of 1,283 middle school students in randomly assigned classrooms either watched or did not watch an…
Descriptors: Bullying, Measurement Techniques, Video Technology, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, 2010
"Rising to the Challenge: Meaningful Assessment of Student Learning" was envisioned in response to a 2007 request for proposals from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). FIPSE called for national, consortial contributions to improving the knowledge and abilities to assess student…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Student Surveys, Measurement Techniques
Bovaird, James A., Ed.; Geisinger, Kurt F., Ed.; Buckendahl, Chad W., Ed. – APA Books, 2011
Educational assessment and, more broadly, educational research in the United States have entered into an era characterized by a dramatic increase in the prevalence and importance of test score use in accountability systems. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues about testing science and practice that impact the nation's public…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Test Use, Student Placement, Educational Research
Toenjes, Laurence A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
A paper appearing in this journal by Klein, Hamilton, McCaffrey and Stecher (2000) attempted to raise serious questions about the validity of the gains in student performance as measured by Texas' standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS). Part of their analysis was based on the results of three tests which they…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Scores, Academic Achievement

Dziuban, Charles D.; Vickery, Kenneth V. – Educational Leadership, 1973
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Measurement Techniques, Standardized Tests, Test Construction
Lowe, James D.; Karnes, Frances A. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1976
It is indicated that, although the scores [obtained on both tests] are significantly correlated, the tests yield significantly different scores with the Lorge-Thorndike consistently overestimating the WISC-R full scale I.Q. (Author)
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Popham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2006
Assessment for learning involves the frequent, continual use of both formal and informal classroom assessments. It can be as simple as requiring students to respond to a lesson-embedded, one-item quiz as a way of gauging student understanding of what is being taught. Ideally, this innovative approach to classroom assessment is based on a careful…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Accountability