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Lam, Tony C. M. – 1995
Performance assessment is a type of educational assessment in which judgments are made about student knowledge and skills based on observation of student behavior or inspection of student products. In dealing with the issue of fairness in performance assessment, educators are confronted with some dilemmas. Assuring equality in performance…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Performance Factors
Harrington, Thomas F. – 1995
This digest recommends assessing all of a person's abilities, not just some. It also discusses self-report in the context of ability assessment. Current use of self assessment methodology taps more ability areas than existing ability or aptitude tests cover. Alternative testing approaches have been called for which enhance self-discovery and…
Descriptors: Ability, Ability Identification, Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Douglas K. – 1995
The role of school psychologists and counselors in assessment is well established. With the current emphasis on collaboration in schools and the use of a pupil services model to deliver services, it is important to examine ways in which school psychologists and counselors can work together for assessment purposes. School psychologists' involvement…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Eccarius, Malinda – 1997
This digest discusses the assessment of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Topics addressed include: (1) the purpose of an assessment of children who are deaf or hard of hearing; (2) problems associated with assessment, including the diagnostician's lack of experience with the deaf population, communication problems, tests that are normed…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Problems
Hendricks, Bruce – 1994
Although experiential education is really the oldest approach to learning, its practitioners have not had an easy time justifying its relevance in the modern educational world. Recent changes in the methodologies of evaluation have provided useful tools for experiential educators. Such tools can be used to refine programming, enhance student…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Cooperation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Rosenfield, Sylvia; Nelson, Deborah – 1995
School psychologists can play a unique role in schools because of their assessment expertise. Traditionally, they have been most involved in individual psychoeducational assessment for classification and labeling purposes, but the limitations of this form of assessment for building intervention strategies has led many school psychologists to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Ascher, Carol – 1990
Performance-based assessment has the potential to support a richer curriculum and more accurately assess the skills of low-income minority students than standardized tests. Performance-based assessment has the following advantages: (1) it allows a wide range of expression; (2) it permits assessment of learning in a natural context while students…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Stiggins, Richard J. – 1995
Not since the development of the objective paper and pencil test early in the century has an assessment method hit the American educational scene with such force as has performance assessment methodology in the 1990s. Performance assessment relies on teacher observation and professional judgment to draw inferences about student achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria