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Hathcoat, John D.; Penn, Jeremy D.; Barnes, Laura L.; Comer, Johnathan C. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
Authentic assessments used in response to accountability demands in higher education face at least two threats to validity. First, a lack of interchangeability between assessment tasks introduces bias when using aggregate-based scores at an institutional level. Second, reliance on written products to capture constructs such as critical thinking…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Higher Education, Validity

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