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Sondergeld, Toni A.; Stone, Gregory E.; Kruse, Lance M. – Educational Policy, 2020
Assessment and evaluation at all levels of educational systems have become policy priorities for many countries. Two common reasons for this are student learning expectations and accountability. Although much effort has been put into the creation and refinement of content standards, standardized tests, and methods for using testing results, there…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Criterion Referenced Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Evaluation
Karta, I. Wayan; Farmasari, Santi; Ocampo, Darrel M. – Online Submission, 2023
This study intends to describe assessment strategies for young students' online learning. The participants in this descriptive qualitative study were 15 primary school principals and 35 teachers teaching Years 4 and 5 in urban and rural schools on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Province, who volunteered their participation after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students
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Reutzel, D. Ray; Brandt, Lorilynn; Fawson, Parker C.; Jones, Cindy D. – Elementary School Journal, 2014
This article examines the Consortium on Reading Excellence-Phonics Survey (CORE-PS), an informal, inexpensive, and widely disseminated assessment tool that is used to determine primary-grade students' knowledge of and abilities to apply key alphabetic and phonics understandings to decode a mix of real and pseudo-words. Evidence is reported of the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Phonics, Decoding (Reading)
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Young, Karen; James, Kimberley; Noy, Sue – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Work integrated learning (WIL) educators using reflective practice to facilitate student learning require a set of standards that works within the traditional assessment frame of Higher Education, to ascertain the level at which reflective practice has been demonstrated. However, there is a paucity of tested assessment instruments that provide…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Reflection, Student Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics
Skinner, Rebecca R.; Lomax, Erin – Congressional Research Service, 2017
Federal education legislation continues to emphasize the role of assessment in elementary and secondary schools. Perhaps most prominently, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; P.L. 114-95), requires the use of test-based educational accountability systems in states and specifies the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
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Plowman, Sharon Ann – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
The purpose of this article is to bring attention to the 10 most pressing questions relevant to musculoskeletal physical fitness testing in children and adolescents. The goal is to stimulate research to answer these questions. The most pressing needs include establishing definitive links between valid, reliable, and feasible field test measures of…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Children, Adolescents, Evaluation Methods
National Occupational Competency Testing Institute, 2012
This guide attempts to address an aspect of secondary CTE (Career and Technical Education) that has received little attention; the assessment literacy of educators. School leaders need to go beyond ensuring routine compliance with external and internal regulatory forces to identify ways in which CTE program teachers might better understand…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment
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Frame, Laura B.; Vidrine, Stephanie M.; Hinojosa, Ryan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition (KTEA-3) is a revised and updated comprehensive academic achievement test (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2014). Authored by Drs. Alan and Nadeen Kaufman and published by Pearson, the KTEA-3 remains an individual achievement test normed for individuals of ages 4 through 25 years, or for those in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Davies, Michael; Griffin, Patrick – School Psychology International, 2012
This study addresses the predictive validity of results from a screening system of academic enablers, with a sample of Australian elementary school students, when the criterion variable is end-of-year achievement. The investigation included (a) comparing the predictive validity of a brief criterion-referenced nomination system with more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Screening Tests, Predictive Validity
Stevens, Olinger; Leigh, Erika – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of the study is to use an empirical approach to identify a simple, economical, efficient, and technically adequate performance measure that teachers can use to assess student growth in mathematics. The current study has been designed to expand the body of research for math CBM to further examine technical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
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Caffrey, Erin; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Journal of Special Education, 2008
The authors report on a mixed-methods review of 24 studies that explores the predictive validity of dynamic assessment (DA). For 15 of the studies, they conducted quantitative analyses using Pearson's correlation coefficients. They descriptively examined the remaining studies to determine if their results were consistent with findings from the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Predictive Validity, Norm Referenced Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
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Mahar, Matthew T.; Rowe, David A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2008
Accurate measures of youth fitness are needed by researchers and practitioners. Evidence of validity and reliability are essential before results of youth fitness tests can be used to make sound decisions. This article describes a three-stage paradigm for validation research and provides guidance for conducting and understanding norm-referenced…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Guidelines, Physical Education Teachers
Klein, Stephen P.; Kosecoff, Jacqueline P. – 1975
Four common uses for criterion-referenced tests (CRT) are outlined: describing student achievement, improving curriculum development, being sensitive indicators of the effects of instruction, and facilitating classroom management decisions. These uses parallel various forms of empirically establishing the content, concurrent, and predictive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development
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Sinharay, Sandip; Haberman, Shelby J. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
In this commentary, the authors discuss some of the issues regarding the use of diagnostic classification models that practitioners should keep in mind. In the authors experience, these issues are not as well known as they should be. The authors then provide recommendations on diagnostic scoring.
Descriptors: Scoring, Reliability, Validity, Classification
Pell, Godfrey; Homer, Matthew S.; Roberts, Trudie E. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2008
Increasingly, academic institutions are being required to improve the validity of the assessment process; unfortunately, often this is at the expense of reliability. In medical schools (such as Leeds), standardized tests of clinical skills, such as "Objective Structured Clinical Examinations" (OSCEs) are widely used to assess clinical…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Standardized Tests, Clinical Experience, Criterion Referenced Tests
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