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Direct linkThompson, W. Jake; Nash, Brooke; Clark, Amy K.; Hoover, Jeffrey C. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2023
As diagnostic classification models become more widely used in large-scale operational assessments, we must give consideration to the methods for estimating and reporting reliability. Researchers must explore alternatives to traditional reliability methods that are consistent with the design, scoring, and reporting levels of diagnostic assessment…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Simulation, Test Reliability, Accuracy
Download full textDoorey, Nancy; Polikoff, Morgan – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
Approximately one-third of American freshmen at two-year and four-year colleges require remedial coursework and over 40 percent of employers rate new hires with a high school diploma as "deficient" in their overall preparation for entry-level jobs. Yet, over the past decade, as these students marched through America's public education…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Test Items, Evaluation Criteria
Sanchez-Escobedo, Pedro; Hollingworth, Liz; Fina, Anthony D. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
The question regarding the appropriateness of the use of tests of intelligence and cognitive abilities developed in the United States to assess people from other countries was renewed in the debate between Suen and Greenspan (2008) and Sanchez-Escobedo and Hollingworth (2009). This controversy arose from challenges in the translation, adaptation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Intelligence Tests, Measures (Individuals)
Spencer, Ernest – 1979
From 1974 through 1978, three methods of assessing Scottish high school students' (O level) English achievement were studied: (1) Ordinary (O level) examinations; (2) assessment of writing skills (folio assessment); and (3) criterion referenced tests developed by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) to measure the objectives of…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
ANDERSON, JAMES A.; FOLLMAN, JOHN C. – 1967
A STUDY OF FIVE DIFFERENT ESSAY EVALUATION PROCEDURES WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE INTRARELIABILITY OF EACH AND TO USE THESE RELIABILITY SCORES AS A BASIS FOR COMPARING THE FIVE PROCEDURES. TEN THEMES WERE ASSIGNED TO FIVE RATING GROUPS, EACH USING A DIFFERENT EVALUATION PROCEDURE--(1) THE CALIFORNIA ESSAY SCALE, (2) THE CLEVELAND COMPOSITION…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, English, Evaluation Methods
August, Diane; Francis, David J.; Hsu, Han-Ya Annie; Snow, Catherine E. – Elementary School Journal, 2006
A new measure of reading comprehension, the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), designed to reflect central comprehension processes while minimizing decoding and language demands, was pilot tested. We conducted three pilot studies to assess the DARC's feasibility, reliability, comparability across Spanish and English,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingual Students, Evaluation Methods, Spanish Speaking
