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Gray, Julie S.; Brown, Melissa A.; Connolly, John P. – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2017
Data-driven decision making is increasingly viewed as essential in a globally competitive society. Initiatives to augment standardized testing with performance-based assessment have increased as educators progressively respond to mandates for authentic measurement of student attainment. To meet this challenge, multidisciplinary rubrics were…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Construct Validity, Scoring Rubrics, Numeracy
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Noel, Andrea M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2014
As of May 2014, all candidates for teacher certification in New York State must successfully complete the teacher performance assessment (edTPA). This article describes an assignment piloted in an early childhood literacy class as an embedded signature assessment and has three goals: to explain the context that led to the development of the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
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Koh, Kim; Luke, Allan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2009
This is an empirical examination of the quality of teacher assignments and student work in Singapore schools. Using a theoretical framework based on principles of authentic assessment and intellectual quality, two sets of criteria and scoring rubrics were developed for the training of expert teachers to judge the quality of assignments and student…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Assignments, Educational Quality, Scoring Rubrics
Boscardin, Christy Kim; Jones, Barbara; Nishimura, Claire; Madsen, Shannon; Park, Jae-Eun – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
Our recent review of content assessments revealed that language expectations and proficiencies are often implicitly embedded within the assessment criteria. Based on a review of performance assessments used in high school biology settings, we have found a recurring discrepancy between assessment scoring criteria and performance expectations. …
Descriptors: Biology, Secondary School Science, Student Evaluation, Validity
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Myers, John – Canadian Social Studies, 2005
Even the best teacher education programs are notoriously short and barely adequate for preparing students to teach in today's schools. At the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) several projects have been undertaken in the use of sources in history classrooms (see Ruth Sandwell's article in this…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Primary Sources, Information Sources, Instructional Materials
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Morris, Maureen; Porter, Anne; Griffiths, David – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2004
Our initial intention was to set out to explore the potential for implementing outcome-based assessment practices in a first year statistics unit. It has evolved into a search for a pedagogy enabling clear definition of the desired learning outcomes in our students, and alignment of instruction, student resources and assessment with these…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, College Instruction, Alignment (Education), College Students