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Ohio Department of Higher Education, 2023
Ohio recognizes that high-quality teachers come from high-quality teacher preparation programs. To help improve the quality of educator preparation programs in Ohio, H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly directed the Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education to develop a system for evaluating Ohio's educator preparation programs (ORC…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Program Evaluation
Fluellen, J. E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2011
How might students engage mindful learning? How might the professor engage mindful teaching? Both questions derived from fieldnotes a participant observer had created for the Future of Learning 2010 Summer Institute (Harvard Graduate School of Education) and the Tests and Measurements course, fall 2010 at Edward Waters College (EWC). Additionally,…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Summer Programs, Learning Theories, Models
Mislevy, Robert J.; Steinberg, Linda S.; Almond, Russell G. – 1999
Tasks are the most visible element in an educational assessment. Their purpose, however, is to provide evidence about targets of inference that cannot be directly seen at all: what examinees know and can do, more broadly conceived than can be observed in the context of any particular set of tasks. This paper concerns issues in an assessment design…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Models
Mislevy, Robert J.; Almond, Russell G. – 1997
This paper synthesizes ideas from the fields of graphical modeling and education testing, particularly item response theory (IRT) applied to computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Graphical modeling can offer IRT a language for describing multifaceted skills and knowledge, and disentangling evidence from complex performances. IRT-CAT can offer…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Testing, Higher Education
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Gorin, Joanna S.; Embretson, Susan E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2006
Recent assessment research joining cognitive psychology and psychometric theory has introduced a new technology, item generation. In algorithmic item generation, items are systematically created based on specific combinations of features that underlie the processing required to correctly solve a problem. Reading comprehension items have been more…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Test Items, Modeling (Psychology), Paragraph Composition