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Transforming Assessments of Clinician Knowledge: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Traditional Standardized and Longitudinal Assessment Modalities
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Shahid A. Choudhry; Timothy J. Muckle; Christopher J. Gill; Rajat Chadha; Magnus Urosev; Matt Ferris; John C. Preston – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2024
The National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA) conducted a one-year research study comparing performance on the traditional continued professional certification assessment, administered at a test center or online with remote proctoring, to a longitudinal assessment that required answering quarterly…
Descriptors: Nurses, Certification, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Computer Assisted Testing
Evolving Educational Testing to Meet Students' Needs: Design-in-Real-Time Assessment
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Stephen G. Sireci; Javier Suárez-Álvarez; April L. Zenisky; Maria Elena Oliveri – Grantee Submission, 2024
The goal in personalized assessment is to best fit the needs of each individual test taker, given the assessment purposes. Design-In-Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment reflects the progressive evolution in testing from a single test, to an adaptive test, to an adaptive assessment "system." In this paper, we lay the foundation for DIRTy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Needs, Test Format, Test Construction
Evolving Educational Testing to Meet Students' Needs: Design-in-Real-Time Assessment
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Stephen G. Sireci; Javier Suárez-Álvarez; April L. Zenisky; Maria Elena Oliveri – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
The goal in personalized assessment is to best fit the needs of each individual test taker, given the assessment purposes. Design-in-Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment reflects the progressive evolution in testing from a single test, to an adaptive test, to an adaptive assessment "system." In this article, we lay the foundation for DIRTy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Needs, Test Format, Test Construction
Output Register Parallelism in an Identical Direct and Semi-Direct Speaking Test: A Case Study
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Quaid, Ethan Douglas – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
The present trend in developing and using semi-direct speaking tests has been supported by test developers and researchers' claim of their increased practicality, higher reliability and concurrent validity with test scores in direct oral proficiency interviews. However, it is universally agreed within the language testing and assessment community…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Speech Communication, Language Tests, Comparative Analysis
The Impact of Electronic-Based Dynamic Assessment on the Listening Skill of Iranian EFL Learners
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Ashraf, Hamid; Motallebzadeh, Khalil; Ghazizadeh, Faezeh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2016
This study investigated the impact of electronic-based dynamic assessment on the listening skill of Iranian EFL learners to achieve this goal, a group of 40 female EFL upper-intermediate students (aged between 26 to 38 years old) from to language institutes were selected as the participants of the study after administering a Quick Placement Test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction