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Martínez, José Felipe; Kloser, Matt; Srinivasan, Jayashri; Stecher, Brian; Edelman, Amanda – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
Adoption of new instructional standards in science demands high-quality information about classroom practice. Teacher portfolios can be used to assess instructional practice and support teacher self-reflection anchored in authentic evidence from classrooms. This study investigated a new type of electronic portfolio tool that allows efficient…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Academic Standards, Instructional Innovation, Electronic Publishing
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Han, Chao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
As a property of test scores, reliability/dependability constitutes an important psychometric consideration, and it underpins the validity of measurement results. A review of interpreter certification performance tests (ICPTs) reveals that (a) although reliability/dependability checking has been recognized as an important concern, its theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scores, English, Chinese
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Wren, David; Barbera, Jack – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
Assessing conceptual understanding of foundational topics before instruction on higher-order concepts can provide chemical educators with information to aid instructional design. This study provides an instrument that can be used to identify students' alternative conceptions regarding thermochemistry concepts. The Thermochemistry Concept Inventory…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Thermodynamics, Chemistry, Item Response Theory
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Shin, Yongyun; Raudenbush, Stephen W. – Psychometrika, 2012
Social scientists are frequently interested in assessing the qualities of social settings such as classrooms, schools, neighborhoods, or day care centers. The most common procedure requires observers to rate social interactions within these settings on multiple items and then to combine the item responses to obtain a summary measure of setting…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Neighborhoods, Intervals, Child Care Centers
Phillips, Gary W., Ed. – 1996
Recently, there has been a significant expansion in the use of performance assessment in large scale testing programs. Although there has been significant support from curriculum and policy stakeholders, the technical feasibility of large scale performance assessments has remained a question. This report is intended to contribute to the debate by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Generalizability Theory, Performance Based Assessment, Psychometrics
Jones, Russell W.; Hambleton, Ronald K. – 1992
Increasing social awareness of the need for accurate and fair testing has combined with technological developments to produce dramatic advances in psychometric models, methods, and procedures. Three of the most important new directions within the measurement field concern the following areas: (1) item response theory; (2) item bias or differential…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Computer Assisted Testing, Generalizability Theory, Item Bias