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Huang, Chiungjung – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
This study examined the percentage of task-sampling variability in performance assessment via a meta-analysis. In total, 50 studies containing 130 independent data sets were analyzed. Overall results indicate that the percentage of variance for (a) differential difficulty of task was roughly 12% and (b) examinee's differential performance of the…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Research Design, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests
Lim, Gad S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Performance assessments have become the norm for evaluating language learners' writing abilities in international examinations of English proficiency. Two aspects of these assessments are usually systematically varied: test takers respond to different prompts, and their responses are read by different raters. This raises the possibility of undue…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Language Tests, Performance Tests, Test Validity