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Fulcher, Glenn – Language Teaching, 2015
While the viva voce (oral) examination has always been used in content-based educational assessment (Latham 1877: 132), the assessment of second language (L2) speaking in performance tests is relatively recent. The impetus for the growth in testing speaking during the 19th and 20th centuries is twofold. Firstly, in educational settings the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Rating Scales
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Ventura, Matthew; Shute, Valerie; Zhao, Weinan – Computers & Education, 2013
An online performance-based measure of persistence was developed using anagrams and riddles. Persistence was measured by recording the time spent on unsolved anagrams and riddles. Time spent on unsolved problems was correlated to a self-report measure of persistence. Additionally, frequent video game players spent longer times on unsolved problems…
Descriptors: Correlation, Video Games, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction
Zahner, Doris; Steedle, Jeffrey T. – Council for Aid to Education, 2014
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) in an effort to measure learning in international postsecondary education. This paper presents a study of scoring equivalence across nine countries for two translated and adapted performance tasks. Results reveal…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Performance Based Assessment, Postsecondary Education, Scoring
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Jones, Anne; Sheppard, Lorraine – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
The aim of this research was to determine if self-efficacy can be correlated with prior academic achievement and whether self-efficacy can be an outcome measure of education. A self-efficacy instrument was developed and administered to physiotherapy students following completion of their pre-clinical theory experience. The questionnaire results…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Questionnaires, Performance Based Assessment, Physical Therapy
Pearson, P. David; Garavaglia, Diane R. – 1997
This essay explores what is known and what remains to be learned about the information value of performance items when they are used in large scale assessment. Within the context of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), there is substantial interest in answering these questions as issues of national assessment are considered for…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Correlation, Cost Effectiveness, Factor Analysis
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Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity
Nweke, Winifred C. – 1993
A crucial, but often forgotten, role of educational assessment is to enhance students' learning. This author advocates that an assessment program designed for student learning differs from assessment for accountability in purpose, test format, measurement type, number, and spread of tests, use of test results, and amount of interval between…
Descriptors: Accountability, Correlation, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Stecher, Brian M.; Klein, Stephen P.; Solano-Flores, Guillermo; McCaffrey, Dan; Robyn, Abby; Shavelson, Richard J.; Haertel, Edward – 1998
This study investigated three factors that may contribute to the large variation in student performance across open-ended measures. These factors are content domain, format (whether the task required only pencil and paper or involved a hands-on manipulation of equipment), and level of inquiry (whether the task guided the student toward the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Fisher, Gwen Laura – 1996
There has been concern over the validity of the Algebra Diagnostic Test (ADT) used to determine the actual level of student preparation for the first quarter of calculus as taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It has been hypothesized that performance-based questions, along with the more traditional multiple choice questions,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, Chemistry, College Freshmen
Linn, Robert L.; And Others – 1991
The New Standards Project is a joint effort of the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and the National Center on Education and the Economy toward creation of a national examination system based on performance assessments. This study explored the feasibility of comparing performance on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education