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Performance-Based Assessment: Lessons from the Health Professions.

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Swanson, David B.; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1995

Shares some lessons learned from performance-based assessment in the health professions, using four performance-based assessment methods as examples: (1) written clinical simulations (patient-management problems); (2) computer-based clinical simulations; (3) oral examinations; and (4) standardized patients (live simulations). (SLD)

Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment

Can There Be Validity without Reliability?

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Moss, Pamela A. – Educational Researcher, 1994

The assumption that reliability is a necessary but insufficient condition for validity in assessment is challenged by exploring a dialectic between psychometric and hermeneutic approaches to drawing and warranting interpretations of human products of performance. Hermeneutic alternatives for epistemological and ethical purposes expand the range of…

Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Epistemology, Ethics