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Direct linkNewhouse, C. Paul – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
This paper presents the findings of the first phase of a three-year study investigating the efficacy of the digitisation of creative practical work as digital portfolios for the purposes of high-stakes summative assessment. At the same time the paired comparisons method of scoring was tried as an alternative to analytical rubric-based marking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summative Evaluation, Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing
Newhouse, C. Paul – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
This paper reports on the outcomes of a three-year study investigating the use of digital technologies to increase the authenticity of high-stakes summative assessment in four Western Australian senior secondary courses. The study involved 82 teachers and 1015 students and a range of digital forms of assessment using computer-based exams, digital…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, High Stakes Tests, Summative Evaluation, Secondary School Students
Download full textNewhouse, C. Paul; Tarricone, Pina – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2014
High-stakes external assessment for practical courses is fraught with problems impacting on the manageability, validity and reliability of scoring. Alternative approaches to assessment using digital technologies have the potential to address these problems. This paper describes a study that investigated the use of these technologies to create and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Scoring
Newhouse, C. Paul – Computers & Education, 2011
An applied Information Technology (IT) course that is assessed using pen and paper may sound incongruous but it is symptomatic of the state of high-stakes assessment in jurisdictions such as Western Australia. Whereas technology has permeated most aspects of modern life, including schooling, and more has been demanded of education systems in terms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Newhouse, C. Paul – Australian Educational Computing, 2008
In many ways assessment drives the curriculum and often pedagogy at all levels of education. In a world where it is more important what you can do with what you know rather than just what you know, it is critical that practical performance is assessed in reliable and valid ways that are also cost-effective. Increasingly the use of digital…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Computer Assisted Testing, Portfolio Assessment
Newhouse, C. Paul; Njiru, Joseph N. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2009
There is a critical need for research into the use of digital technologies to support the assessment of performance on complex tasks in schools. This paper reports on a component of a pilot study aimed at investigating the use of digital forms of performance assessment, manageable within schools, with high levels of reliability and capable of…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods
