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Direct linkJordan, Sally – Computers & Education, 2012
Students were observed directly, in a usability laboratory, and indirectly, by means of an extensive evaluation of responses, as they attempted interactive computer-marked assessment questions that required free-text responses of up to 20 words and as they amended their responses after receiving feedback. This provided more general insight into…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Evaluation, Test Interpretation
Kolen, Michael J.; Lee, Won-Chan – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2011
This paper illustrates that the psychometric properties of scores and scales that are used with mixed-format educational tests can impact the use and interpretation of the scores that are reported to examinees. Psychometric properties that include reliability and conditional standard errors of measurement are considered in this paper. The focus is…
Descriptors: Test Use, Test Format, Error of Measurement, Raw Scores
Download full textSchafer, William D. – 1995
The purpose of this digest is to describe school counselors' roles in the area of assessment through an historical review of testing in counseling, and to report on study findings regarding roles employers require school counselors to perform. Knowledge needed by counselors to obtain evidence, evaluate its usefulness, and interpret its meaning…
Descriptors: Counselor Evaluation, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
McNamara, Tim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
The thought of Samuel Messick has influenced language testing in 2 main ways: in proposing a new understanding of how inferences made based on tests must be challenged, and in drawing attention to the consequences of test use. The former has had a powerful impact on language-testing research, most notably in Bachman's work on validity and the…
Descriptors: Test Use, Testing, Language Tests, Validity
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2003
Discusses which kinds of data educators should respect and which they should reject. Asserts that most state accountability tests fail to produce the kinds of data that will improve teaching and learning. Teachers can get the data they need from their own instructionally useful classroom assessments. (WFA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Herr, Edwin L. – 1998
The status of assessment in terms of federal policy, the social or economic climate related to education, the role of testing in counseling, assessment as an intervention in its own right, and assessment as it is affected by technology are important components of the context of issues and challenges related to assessment at the edge of the 21st…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change, Counseling, Counselor Role
