Technical Issues in Large-scale Performance Assessment
Author: Gary W. Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
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Handbook of International Large-Scale Assessment
Author: Leslie Rutkowski
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 1439895147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2017 AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award! Technological and statistical advances, along with a strong interest in gathering more information about the state of our educational systems, have made it possible to assess more students, in more countries, more often, and in more subject domains. The Handbook of International Large-Scale Assessment: Background, Technical Issues, and Methods of Data Analysis brings together recognized scholars in the field of ILSA, behavioral statistics, and policy to develop a detailed guide that goes beyond database user manuals. After highlighting the importance of ILSA data to policy and research, the book reviews methodological aspects and features of the studies based on operational considerations, analytics, and reporting. The book then describes methods of interest to advanced graduate students, researchers, and policy analysts who have a good grounding in quantitative methods, but who are not necessarily quantitative methodologists. In addition, it provides a detailed exposition of the technical details behind these assessments, including the test design, the sampling framework, and estimation methods, with a focus on how these issues impact analysis choices.
Performance Assessments for Adult Education
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2002-08-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0309084539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and limited English proficient adults. Those receiving adult education services have diverse reasons for seeking additional education. With the passage of the WIA, the assessment of adult education students became mandatory-regardless of their reasons for seeking services. The law does allow the states and local programs flexibility in selecting the most appropriate assessment for the student. The purpose of the NRC's workshop was to explore issues related to efforts to measure learning gains in adult basic education programs, with a focus on performance-based assessments.
Implementing Performance Assessment
Author: Michael B. Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1135452342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the commitment to performance assessments as a strategy of reform has increased across the nation, so has the controversy surrounding the purposes, development, implementation, and effects of alternative forms of assessment. One of the first of its kind, this edited volume provides an incisive and comprehensive account of the issues pertaining to performance assessments. The 10 papers comprising the volume were originally written to establish a conceptual framework for a three-year U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement sponsored national study of performance assessments. Written by leading experts in the field, the papers explicate the central issues regarding the development, implementation, and utility of performance assessments. The topics covered by the papers include: * a discussion of contemporary as well as historical events in the performance assessment movement; * technical characteristics of performance assessments, including reliability, validity, generalizability, and calibration; * conceptualization and calculation of the costs of performance assessments; * the implications of performance assessments on students who have traditionally done less well in American schools, including racial and linguistic minorities; * the fit between performance assessments and organizational change in education; and * the utilization of performance assessment as an instrument of state policy. Readers will find the policy and technical issues covered in this volume to be useful from a variety of academic, research, and policy perspectives including conceptualizing and implementing performance assessments.
Performance Assessment for the Workplace
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 030904538X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough ability testing has been an American preoccupation since the 1920s, comparatively little systematic attention has been paid to understanding and measuring the kinds of human performance that tests are commonly used to predictâ€"such as success at school or work. Now, a sustained, large-scale effort has been made to develop measures that are very close to actual performance on the job. The four military services have carried out an ambitious study, called the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, that brings new sophistication to the measurement of performance in work settings. Volume 1 analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. Beginning with a historical overview of the criterion problem, it looks closely at substantive and methodological issues in criterion research suggested by the project: the development of performance measures; sampling, logistical, and standardization problems; evaluating the reliability and content representativeness of performance measures; and the relationship between predictor scores and performance measuresâ€"valuable information that can also be useful in the civilian workplace.
Large-Scale Assessment
Author: Edward Kifer
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780803968349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the important assessment themes, provides a perspective from which to view large-scale assessments, and lays the foundation for plausible interpretations of their results.
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Standard Setting for Large-scale Assessments of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): Proceedings
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Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the Joint Conference on Standard Setting for Large-scale Assessments of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): Executive summary
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuality Performance Assessment
Author: Christina Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780988311602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreated at the Center for Collaborative Education, this is a practical guide for implementing performance assessments in schools and school districts. It includes extensive tools and assessments aligned with the Common Core. The guide is spiral bound for use by teachers and teams of educators. It offers full discussion of issues pertaining to performance assessment.
