This case study reports on the use of Web-based research portfolios in an information literacy course. It offers a model for teaching research skills in a structured and incremental way that can promote student centered learning and facilitate authentic assessment.

Authentic assessment is a growing alternative to conventional testing. This research-to-practice article describes a framework for implementing authentic assessment. The R-E-A-L framework shows how roles, equipment, assessment tools, and location can be incorporated into early childhood practices.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of classroom performance assessment on the EFL students' basic and inferential reading skills. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was employed in the study. The subjects of the study consisted of 64 first-year secondary school students in Menouf Secondary School for Boys at Menoufya…

This document is one of eight reports prepared to support the development of a new learning system, a development effort that is the first step in a major initiative undertaken by the Stupski Foundation. This report synthesizes recent research and theoretical literature on using best practices related to formative assessment to support urban…

One of the great myths of education, faithfully subscribed to for many years by legislators, board members, and educators, is that colleges and universities turn out teachers and administrators as finished products guaranteed to work satisfactorily in any school district. Supporters of performance evaluation are disbelievers. They regard formal…

A hypothetical case study provides examples of the inter-rater reliability issues involved in complex performance assessment, focusing on the Baldrige model. A hypothetical team of five evaluators was asked to rate a Baldrige model performance assessment along the seven defined criteria or performance dimensions that comprise the Baldrige model…

Even in today's mathematics classroom, where teachers often focus primarily on mastery of underlying concepts, students struggle to commit the multiplication table to memory. Facility in multiplication involves both an understanding of the concepts and memorization of the facts. Successful memorization of the one hundred basic multiplication facts…

This report presents the final recommendations of the Performance Indicator Advisory Committee to the Illinois Board of Higher Education with regard to statewide and common institutional indicators that can be used to assess progress toward meeting the goals of "The Illinois Commitment" for higher education. Also addressed are the…

Assessment of clinical performance is intended to make generalizations about a physicians competence. Performance assessments involve three interacting components: the candidate, the cases, and the raters. Confidence in generalizations depends on reliability of the measurements and whether the cases represent the competence domains of interest.…

An analysis was made of the cognitive processes that support the judgments made in standard setting activities. These processes were conceived as having two components: forming the domain needed to pass the test and identifying the criterion level of performance to pass the test. In fact, these processes are interactive, and were separated for the…

The objective of this study was to investigate effective applications of portfolios based on research literature and practice in two distinct teacher education programs. During the study it quickly became apparent that the metaphors used to describe portfolios help elucidate how the profession perceives their appropriate use. In fact, the term…

Performance is the actual work that is done to assure that an organization achieves its mission, and aligning that performance assures that the path to the mission is harmonious. Alignment exists when all people involved understand the dimensions of the work and want to achieve and improve alignment. This book presents the "Language of Work" model…

Performance technologists like quick, cheap analysis that is rigorous and comprehensive. This article presents the organization scan model which makes successful compromises between the technologist's obligation to be rigorous and comprehensive and the sponsor's obligation to save money and time. Includes "Societal Bottom Line: Measurable…

Aims to show a connection between authentic assessment practices and qualitative research techniques to aid reading teachers in their authentic assessment endeavors. Contends that awareness of an issue can change models and open minds to new ways of thinking. (PA)

Tests, class assignments, and teaching methods usually focus only on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences. The Teele Inventory of Multiple Intelligences examines students' dominant intelligences and has been used to demonstrate the abilities students possess at different grade levels. Teele has also developed a model that identifies…