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Susan K. Johnsen – Gifted Child Today, 2025
The author provides information about reliability and areas that educators should examine in determining if an assessment is consistent and trustworthy for use, and how it should be interpreted in making decisions about students. Reliability areas that are discussed in the column include internal consistency, test-retest or stability, inter-scorer…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Academically Gifted, Student Evaluation, Error of Measurement
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Scott J. Peters; Matthew C. Makel; Lindsay Ellis Lee; Tamra Stambaugh; Matthew T. McBee; D. Betsy McCoach; Kiana R. Johnson – Gifted Child Today, 2024
Universal screening is one of the most-common topics and well-accepted best practices within the field of gifted and talented education. There appears to be little disagreement that universally screening all students as part of a gifted and talented identification process results in fewer missed students. But surprisingly, there is little guidance…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Screening Tests, Test Validity
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Emily L. Coderre – College Teaching, 2024
Psychometrics is the field of designing tests and assessments to measure certain psychological concepts. It is chiefly concerned with two fundamental properties: reliability and validity. These properties are often influenced by confounding variables: other things that can influence performance but are not what you are trying to measure. Here, I…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Psychometrics, Test Construction, Test Reliability
Anne Wicks; Robin Berkley – George W. Bush Institute, 2025
Assessments are one of the most important--and often misunderstood--elements of education. In most cases, tests are administered by the state as well as by districts and schools. Assessments at each of these levels have distinct purposes, yield different information, and are part of a powerful, coordinated approach to improving student outcomes.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Testing, Tests, Standardized Tests
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Devender R. Banda; Stephanie L. Hart – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
The BCBA Task List (5th and 6th Edition) requires behavior analysts are familiar with multiple assessment methods, including tools to assess the function of problem behaviors and assess skill strengths and deficits. Although several studies exist on the assessment of functions using indirect functional assessments, descriptive functional…
Descriptors: Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior Problems, Capital (Sociology), Student Characteristics
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Wesolowski, Brian C. – Music Educators Journal, 2020
Validity, reliability, and fairness are three prominent indicators for evaluating the quality of assessment processes. Each of the indicators is most often written about and applied in the context of large-scale assessment. As a result, the technical properties of these indicators make them limited in both their practicality and relevance for…
Descriptors: Music Education, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Student Evaluation
Flanagan, Agnes; Cormier, Damien C. – Communique, 2019
One of the areas subsumed under the data-based decision making and accountability practice identified in the National Association of School Psychologists' (NASP) "Model for Integrated School Psychological Services" is to collect information on psychological and educational variables to make decisions at a number of levels of service…
Descriptors: Test Bias, School Psychologists, Measurement, Data Collection
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Stephenson, Norda S.; Duffy, Erin M.; Day, Elizabeth L.; Padilla, Kira; Herrington, Deborah G.; Cooper, Melanie M.; Carmel, Justin H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The development of proficiency in the practices used by scientists and engineers is considered an important student outcome of laboratory instruction. We developed tasks to assess students' use and development of selected scientific and engineering practices in the general chemistry laboratory using an adapted evidence-centered design approach. In…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Chemistry, Science Process Skills
Shaw, Stuart; Nisbet, Isabel – Research Matters, 2021
Was the approach proposed for calculating exam grades in summer 2020 fair? Were the grades eventually awarded (after policy changes) fair? What is a fair arrangement for 2021? These questions have been at the heart of debate in the UK in the light of COVID-19. After schools were closed in the spring of 2020 and the decision was made not to proceed…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2018
Reliability is a measure of consistency. It is the degree to which student results are the same when they take the same test on different occasions, when different scorers score the same item or task, and when different but equivalent tests are taken at the same time or at different times. Reliability is about making sure that different test forms…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Student Evaluation, Test Bias
Fitzgerald, Jill; Shanahan, Timothy E. – International Literacy Association, 2020
Reading scores exist for a continuum of purposes, from informal assessment to formal standardized tests. This brief aims to answer the question: What matters most for elementary-grade teachers when thinking about reading scores, and what could policymakers do to help teachers? Three positions worth pursuing in this regard are shared: (1) every…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Scores, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a larger study examining the validity and reliability of the Kansas Clinical Assessment Tool (K-CAT), a newly developed tool for assessing the performance of teacher candidates. The study team used interviews with cooperating teachers, content experts' ratings of the alignment of the K-CAT to…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Evaluation Methods, Preservice Teachers
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Elturki, Eman – English Teaching Forum, 2020
Accrediting agencies for English language programs, such as the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA), require a plan in writing for monitoring and reviewing assessment practices. Nonetheless, web-search queries such as "assessing assessment," "how to assess assessment," "assessing assessment…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Student Evaluation, Test Reliability
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Shavelson, Richard J.; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Beck, Klaus; Schmidt, Susanne; Marino, Julian P. – International Journal of Testing, 2019
Following employers' criticisms and recent societal developments, policymakers and educators have called for students to develop a range of generic skills such as critical thinking ("twenty-first century skills"). So far, such skills have typically been assessed by student self-reports or with multiple-choice tests. An alternative…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cognitive Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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Cian, Heidi – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2020
Socioscientific issues, issues that center on the intersection between scientific and social problems in real-world contexts, are valuable tools to use in science instruction due to their association with gains in scientific literacy, argumentation skills, and content knowledge. However, due to their complex nature, crafting instruction using…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Social Problems, Science Instruction, Prior Learning
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