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Direct linkMartinez, Jose Felipe; Goldschmidt, Pete; Niemi, David; Baker, Eva L.; Sylvester, Roxanne M. – Educational Assessment, 2007
We conducted generalizability studies to examine the extent to which ratings of language arts performance assignments, administered in a large, diverse, urban district to students in second through ninth grades, result in reliable and precise estimates of true student performance. The results highlight three important points when considering the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Language Arts, Academic Achievement, Urban Areas
Download full textHerman, Joan L.; Brown, Richard S.; Baker, Eva L. – 2000
The progress of students and schools in California is examined by reviewing the state's recent test history and the state's progress in creating a sound, standards-based assessment system. The story about California is mixed. Overall performance on the Stanford Achievement Test, ninth edition (SAT-9) shows that the state average, overall grades…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Herman, Joan L.; Baker, Eva L.; Linn, Robert L. – Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004
This focus of this newsletter asserts that if one accepts that accountability systems are intended to serve both symbolic and technical functions, one can ask how well they are operating symbolically to motivate action and how well they are doing in providing adequate technical information to support intended inferences. In this column, it is…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Baker, Eva L. – Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004
The goal of scaling up of educational innovation is to produce robust, effective, replicable outcomes. This report addresses requirements to support scale-up of scientifically vetted innovation (or new ideas that are built on the findings of quality research and development). In this report, a number of issues are considered: the context of…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Scientific Research, Evaluation Methods, Research Design
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L. – Theory into Practice, 1997
Discusses values ascribed to performance assessment and recent criticisms of assessment and suggests model-based performance assessment for remedying and avoiding these criticisms. The paper explains the merits of a systematic approach to developing performance assessments and rubrics based on general models across ages and subject areas for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L.; O'Neil, Harold F., Jr. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1995
Two examples of the interaction between computer technology and assessment are described: a tool-based knowledge representation approach to assess content understanding and a team problem-solving task involving negotiation. The examples serve as the context for the exploration of validity, equity, and utility. (LZ)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1994
This article describes performance-based assessment as expounded by its proponents, comments on these conceptions, reviews evidence regarding the technical quality of performance-based assessment, and considers its validity under various policy options. (JDD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L. – Journal of Educational Research, 1996
Paper introduces a collection of papers on educational assessment, noting controversies surrounding both old and new assessment methods, discussing the persistent set of technical issues that must be addressed by the research community in measurement, and examining work by the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Baker, Eva L. – 1973
The need for common measures in research on teaching is legend, and the merits of teaching performance tests to meet this requirement are explored here. A regression study where teacher performance tests were used as dependent measures is described. Sixth-four subjects were given objective-based lessons to teach. During their lesson, they were…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Programs
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L.; Schacter, John – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This discussion of the use of expert performance as the basis for inferring assessment scoring criteria in evaluating student performance considers characteristics of experts and difficulties in use of adult expertise to evaluate student performance. The use of gifted students' performances as benchmarks is suggested as possibly providing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Alternative Assessment, Benchmarking
Baker, Eva L. – 1986
Ways to improve the validity of assessment of college students are discussed. Validity problems often have occurred because the purpose of assessment was not clear. Traditionally, college students have been tested for admission and placement. However, the results of these tests have been used for other purposes, such as comparing institutions.…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria
Baker, Eva L. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Over the last 20 years, writing about technology (and more recently about its use in assessment systems) has been a joyful experience, in part because the author was usually right about how fast and how unexpected technology progress would be made. In this article, the author suggests to rethink assessment systems from design perspectives and the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1996
This study investigated how domain specifications controlled topic and rater reliability. History students completed three performance tasks. For each topic, they took prior knowledge tests, read primary materials, and wrote explanatory essays. Using a theory-based scoring rubric, four raters scored all essays. The rubric worked similarly on the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 11, High School Students, High Schools
Baker, Eva L.; Linn, Robert L. – 1992
The use of portfolio assessment as a method of evaluating the writing competence of elementary school students was studied. The study contained two components: (1) an empirical study of the utility and meaningfulness of using an analytic rubric developed for the evaluation of traditional writing samples to score student portfolios; and (2) a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods
