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Jonathan Seiden – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Direct assessments of early childhood development (ECD) are a cornerstone of research in developmental psychology and are increasingly used to evaluate programs and policies in lower- and middle-income countries. Despite strong psychometric properties, these assessments are too expensive and time consuming for use in large-scale monitoring or…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Performance Based Assessment, Developmental Psychology
Gitomer, Drew H.; Martínez, José Felipe; Battey, Dan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In 2019, Drew H. Gitomer, Dan Battey, and José Felipe Martínez published a paper detailing apparent violations of fundamental principles and norms in the reporting of technical information about the edTPA, a widely used high-stakes assessment for teacher licensure. In this article, they describe and criticize the lack of appropriate response to…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, High Stakes Tests, Test Construction
Matthias von Davier, Editor; Ann Kennedy, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has been monitoring international trends in reading achievement among fourth-grade students for 25 years. As a critical point in a student's education, the fourth year of schooling establishes the foundations of literacy, with reading becoming increasingly central to learning across all…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
Villarroel, Verónica; Boud, David; Bloxham, Susan; Bruna, Daniela; Bruna, Carola – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Tests and examinations are widely used internationally. Despite their pervasiveness, they tend to measure lower order thinking skills in a decontextualized manner at a time when the literature frequently argues for the benefits of a richer, authentic approach to assessment. The focus of this paper is to improve authenticity in test assessment…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Testing, Tests, Test Construction
Pool, Juli Lull; Hampshire, Patricia – Young Exceptional Children, 2020
Assessment can be challenging for professionals in the early childhood setting, given the variety of ways that young children show what they know. Early childhood professionals who work with children with exceptionalities take into consideration individual needs when planning for assessments. Authentic assessment provides a more complete picture…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Observation, Preschool Education, Student Evaluation
Gyll, Sean P. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Simulated testing has become more prevalent in higher education, especially as competency-based institutions begin to incorporate micro-credentials and skills certificates into their curriculum. Competency-based assessment falls outside traditional norm-based testing practices used in K-12 education, and is largely focused on criterion referenced…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Knowledge Level, Measurement
Donaldson, Joseph L. – Journal of Extension, 2019
In response to research demonstrating that Tennessee Extension agents desired a performance appraisal system that better reflected their jobs and provided for appraisers' professional development, a committee of University of Tennessee and Tennessee State University personnel undertook a 2-year initiative to revise the performance appraisal…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Boye, Allison P. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2019
Essay exams offer many benefits for instructors who seek to vary their assessment methods and engage students in critical discourse, yet they also pose many challenges and require thoughtful construction and evaluation. The author provides an extensive overview of the literature to illuminate best practices for designing and assessing effective…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Prompting, Responses, Writing Assignments
de Klerk, Sebastiaan; Veldkamp, Bernard P.; Eggen, Theo J. H. M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
The development of any assessment should be an iterative and careful process. Ideally, this process is guided by a well-defined framework (see for example Downing in: Downing and Haladyna (eds) "Handbook of test development," Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, 2006; Mislevy et al. in "On the roles of task model variables in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment
Mikeska, Jamie N.; Howell, Heather; Straub, Carrie – International Journal of Testing, 2019
The demand for assessments of competencies that require complex human interaction is steadily growing as we move toward a focus on twenty-first century skills. As assessment designers aim to address this demand, we argue for the importance of a common language to understand and attend to the key challenges implicated in designing task situations…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Performance Based Assessment, Simulated Environment, Teacher Evaluation
Carroll, Brian A. – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2017
A broad view of assessment development and design procedures portrays existing theories and methodologies as not fully representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities students need to perform in the 21st century. Acknowledgement of these inadequacies has led to developments in assessment research attempting to meet contemporary expectations…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation, Vignettes
Baker, Diane F.; Neely, Walter P.; Prenshaw, Penelope J.; Taylor, Patrick A. – Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2015
A task force was created in a small, AACSB-accredited business school to develop a more comprehensive set of standards for faculty performance. The task force relied heavily on faculty input to identify and describe key dimensions that capture effective teaching and service performance. The result is a multi-dimensional framework that will be used…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness, Standard Setting, Benchmarking
Dietel, Ron – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Two tests intended to measure student achievement of the Common Core State Standards will face intense scrutiny, but the test makers say they will include performance assessments and other items that are not multiple-choice questions. Incorporating performance items on this tests will bring up issues over scoring, costs, and validity.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, State Standards, Test Construction, Intellectual Property
Martin, Michael – Hunt Institute, 2015
Assessments matter in education. Testing is nothing new; tests have been around as long as school itself. However, over the last 15 years, state assessments have grown to be an increasingly central, and often controversial, part of schooling. As states raise their standards, it is more important than ever to ask: What is a high-quality assessment?…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Standards, Academic Standards
Penney, Dawn; Jones, Andy; Newhouse, Paul; Cambell, Alistair – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The Digital Forms of Assessment project is a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage research project being conducted by Edith Cowan University's Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies (CSaLT) in partnership with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia. The project is investigating the potential for a digital format…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Student Evaluation, Summative Evaluation