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Download full textNebraska Department of Education, 2024
The Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) is a statewide assessment system that embodies Nebraska's holistic view of students and helps them prepare for success in postsecondary education, career, and civic life. It uses multiple measures throughout the year to provide educators and decision-makers at all levels with the insights…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Dampier, Graham A. – South African Journal of Education, 2014
Presently, a plethora of instruments designed to assess a mathematical skill, disposition, or competence prevail in South Africa. Yet few of them adhere to the basic requirements of the unidimensionality and invariance of measures. The Marko-D is a mathematical instrument designed to test learners between the ages of 4 and 8. The instrument, thus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Skills, Measurement Techniques
Öztürk-Gübes, Nese; Kelecioglu, Hülya – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of dimensionality, common-item set format, and different scale linking methods on preserving equity property with mixed-format test equating. Item response theory (IRT) true-score equating (TSE) and IRT observed-score equating (OSE) methods were used under common-item nonequivalent groups design.…
Descriptors: Test Format, Item Response Theory, True Scores, Equated Scores
Direct linkHastedt, Dirk; Sibberns, Heiko – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2005
In international large-scale surveys, constructed response (CR) items are increasingly being used and multiple-choice (MC) items are being used less frequently. In this article the two item types will be compared in terms of any differences they have on national mean scores. TIMSS 1995 and TIMSS 1999 data have been used. Are there different…
Descriptors: Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Tests
Peer reviewedWilson, Mark; Wang, Wen-chung – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1995
Data from the California Learning Assessment System mathematics assessment were used to examine issues that arise when scores from different assessment modes are combined. Multiple-choice, open-ended, and investigation items were combined in a test across three test forms. Results illustrate the difficulties faced in evaluating combined…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Equated Scores, Evaluation Methods, Item Response Theory
Hamzah, Hanizah; Ariffin, Siti Rahayah; Yassin, Ruhizan Mohd – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2006
This study explored the differential performances of mathematics test items used to test secondary school girls and boys in the national examination. The main purpose was to find out whether type of items is the reason for girls' overachievement in the Malaysian mathematics national examination. To investigate seven types of items, Differential…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Females, Overachievement
