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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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Maria Blevins; Bryce Hughes; Jennifer Green; Leila Sterman; Shannon Willoughby – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
In this work, the authors document an expansion of the Public Speaking Competency Rubric (PSCR). First developed in 2012 by Schreiber, et al., the original rubric has only one item related to non-verbal communication. The authors of this work expanded the rubric to include 10 items related to the non-verbal aspects of public speaking and had it…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Public Speaking, Competence, Scoring Rubrics
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Vahed, Anisa; Walters, Matthys Michielse; Ross, Ashley Hilton Adrian – Education Inquiry, 2023
Despite the expanding literature in the last three decades on modes of implementation and the various forms of formal and informal assessments, there is limited evidence of academics' knowledge and understanding of continuous assessment practice. Using a mixed methods sequential explanatory research design, this paper aimed to investigate…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
Dadey, Nathan; Keng, Leslie; Boyer, Michelle; Marion, Scott – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2021
State summative educational assessment is about to begin in earnest. Rightfully, many are raising questions about the quality, meaning, and appropriate use of the assessment results. This document was written to support state educational agencies (SEAs) and their assessment providers in devising effective and efficient analysis plans. This…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Test Use
Alexandra N. Alvarez – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students with disabilities often face academic challenges while in school. They can only master academic concepts if they receive services that are appropriately monitored and assessed. This quantitative causal-comparative study analyzed the associations between academic assessment methods for students with disabilities in a local Florida school…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Test Validity, Standardized Tests
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Corradi, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Juries are a high-stake practice in higher education to assess complex competencies. However common, research remains behind in detailing the psychometric qualities of juries, especially when using rubrics or rating scales as an assessment tool. In this study, I analyze a case of a jury assessment (N = 191) of product development where both…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Rating Scales
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Hébert, Cristyne; LeNouail, Kent – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2023
In Saskatchewan, school divisions have been largely tasked with creating classroom-based assessment policy as, until very recently, the province lacked a current, Ministry-produced guiding document. Using an inductive and qualitative approach to summative content analysis, informed by a policy analysis framework, this project focused on school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Summative Evaluation
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Dolin, Jens; Black, Paul; Harlen, Wynne; Tiberghien, Andrée – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2018
This chapter characterises the two key purposes of assessment, formative and summative, within a general model of assessment of student learning. It discusses reliability and validity issues in relation to the two purposes and considers formative and summative purposes as related and can be brought together in developing a dependable approach to…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Accountability
Medjy Pierre-Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School systems across the United States increasingly use performance-based assessments (PBAs) as alternatives to traditional standardized tests, like the SAT, to make post-secondary and workforce readiness (PWR) determinations. However, very little research has been conducted to validate such alternative assessments as valid indicators of a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Rural Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
Areekkuzhiyil, Santhosh – Online Submission, 2021
Assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment has large number of functions to perform, whether it is formative or summative. This paper analyse the issues involved and the areas of concern in the classroom assessment practice and discusses the recent reforms take place. [This paper was published in Edutracks v20 n8…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Test Validity
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Earle, Sarah – London Review of Education, 2020
Teacher summative judgements of children's attainment in science, which are statutory at age 11 in England, require consideration of both valid sampling of the construct and reliable comparison of outcomes. In order to develop understanding of the enacted 'trade off' between validity and reliability, this three-year case study, within the Teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students
Olivia Nicastro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advanced practice provider (APP) fellowship programs are comprehensive programs designed for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver safe, high-quality care in their specialized areas of practice (Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Accreditation TM, 2023). An APP…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Content Validity, Simulation, Fellowships
Dadey, Nathan; Gong, Brian – Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2023
This document is written primarily for policy makers and state department of education staff who are considering through-year assessments, as well as consultants and contractors state departments rely on. The document identifies essential things to consider when designing or evaluating a through-year assessment program. The paper is organized into…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Progress Monitoring, Summative Evaluation, Standardized Tests
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Meijer, Hajo; Hoekstra, Rink; Brouwer, Jasperina; Strijbos, Jan-Willem – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Over the past two decades, curricula in higher education have increasingly incorporated collaborative learning. However, due to (a) large variations in students' domain-specific abilities (e.g. knowledge and/or skills) and the effort they invest into the collaboration and (b) teachers' limited knowledge about how to assess collaborative learning,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Assessment Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Reflection
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Darr, Charles – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2019
The New Zealand Government has announced a change package in response to a recent review of the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA). In this article, Charles Darr, a chief researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, outlines several elements of standards-based assessment that can usefully inform NCEA's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, National Standards
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