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The Collegiate Learning Assessment: A Critical Perspective
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Shermis, Mark D. – Assessment Update, 2008
This article describes the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a postsecondary assessment tool designed to evaluate the "value-added" component of institutional contributions to student learning outcomes. Developed by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), the instrument ostensibly focuses on the contributions of general education coursework…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Exit Examinations, Majors (Students), Student Evaluation
Classroom Assessment in Action
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Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
Computerized Adaptive Math Tests for Elementary Talent Development Selection.
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Shermis, Mark D.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1996
Three study cohorts involving 199 gifted fifth graders, 190 gifted sixth graders, and 683 typical sixth graders were used to construct, validate, and pilot a computerized adaptive math test for placing fifth graders in a middle school mathematics gifted program. Results suggest the adaptive test has potential for talent identification. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods