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Kuhlemeir, Hans; And Others – 1995
In the Dutch Educational Assessment Program, the students' language proficiency is measured in grade 9, at age 15. Writing performance is measured through several performance-based writing tasks, rated on numerous aspects such as content, style, organization, punctuation, spelling and grammar. As a consequence, national performance levels are…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Falk, Beverly; And Others – 1996
The National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching is working with the New York State Education Department to develop an assessment system that addresses both instructional and accountability concerns. The new system is intended to move the state to a system of performance assessments used in the service of ongoing teaching and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Rosenthal, Marilynn, Ed.; And Others – Offspring, 1996
These two 1996 issues of the journal "Offspring," a publication of the Michigan Council of Cooperative Nursery Schools, cover a variety of topics familiar to nursery school and day care providers and pertinent to the mission of the publication. Articles are short pieces useful to parents, teachers, and others and aim to provide a forum…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Art, Art Appreciation, Child Health
Lara-Alecio, Rafael; And Others – 1997
A study investigated the use of manipulatives-based mathematics tasks as an alternative method for assessing young Hispanic students with limited English proficiency. Students (n=45) from kindergarten and grades 2 and 3 were administered 14 manipulatives-based tasks. Each task was retested over a period of 2-3 weeks. Task performance was scored on…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Grade 2
Wangerin, Paul T. – 1994
This paper addresses problems confronting law school teachers in grading law school exams and assigning letter grades. Using prototypical dialogue and scenarios, the paper examines mathematical and statistical issues that contribute to grading errors. Discussed in relation to real world data and the bar exam are: differential weighting, combining…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Educational Malpractice, Error of Measurement
Vansickle, Timothy R. – 1992
The scaling of a new assessment is a significant undertaking. The scaling of a new assessment designed as a multiple-level, criterion-referenced assessment is even more so. A Guttman approach to scaling was used with the Work Keys selected-response assessments, Reading for Information and Applied Mathematics. Assessments in development in the Work…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Employment Qualifications, High School Students, High Schools
Baxter, Gail P.; And Others – 1994
The degree to which performance assessments meet their dual mandate to evaluate student learning and inform instructional practice is not adequately addressed through traditional concerns for reliability and validity. A possible approach is suggested for examining the cognitive activity students engage in during a performance assessment. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices
Koretz, Daniel M.; And Others – 1991
Detailed evidence is presented about the extent of generalization from high-stakes tests to other tests and about the instructional effects of high-stakes testing. Data are from grade 3 of a large, high-poverty urban district with large numbers of Black and Hispanic American students. The district's results in 1990 for two tests, designated Test B…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Black Students
Cheung, K. C. – 1993
In the past decade, there have been ample interests in the assessment of cognitive and affective processes and products for the purposes of meaningful learning. Meaningful measurement (MM) has been proposed which is in accordance with a humanistic constructivist information-processing perspective. Students' responses to the assessment tasks are…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Assessment
Ross, John A.; Cousins, J. Bradley – 1993
Researchers have used children's self-reports to investigate the conditions under which children seek and give help. Little attention has been given to examining the predictive value of such measures, even though investigators in other domains have found discrepancies between self-reports and observed behavior. Two studies were conducted in which…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Correlation
Hall, William; Saunders, John – 1993
This booklet has been written to help persons interested in assessment of education and training programs in general and competency-based vocational education programs in particular. The following topics are covered in the individual sections: the meaning of the term "assessment"; the importance of assessment; curriculum models; percentages and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1991
This packet contains a manual and a workbook for developing performance tests in vocational education. The manual gives an in-depth description of how to develop, score, and use performance tests. It includes the following sections: definitions of performance testing, steps in developing a performance test, selecting a performance development…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Performance Tests, Postsecondary Education, Scoring
Shavelson, Richard J.; And Others – 1993
In this paper, performance assessments are cast within a sampling framework. A performance assessment score is viewed as a sample of student performance drawn from a complex universe defined by a combination of all possible tasks, occasions, raters, and measurement methods. Using generalizability theory, the authors present evidence bearing on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Error of Measurement, Evaluators
Sefer, Jasmina – 1987
The validity and reliability of the Yugoslavian (Beograd) version of the Hungarian adaptation of the Torrance Divergent Capacities Test (HAT-DAT) were tested, with a view toward improving the methodology of scoring the creative abilities test and determining standards for Yugoslavia. The test, based on the work of J. P. Guilford (1977), examines…
Descriptors: Art Products, Childrens Art, Cognitive Ability, Creative Thinking
Veccia, Ellen M.; Schroeder, David H. – 1990
As a measure of musical aptitude, a new 90-item Pitch Discrimination Test was developed, and its internal structure was examined. Each of the three sections of the test measures an individual's aptitude for pitch discrimination in a different frequency range using square-wave tones generated by a personal computer. A total of 1,303 examinees,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Auditory Discrimination