by admin | Nov 4, 2015 | Assessment Delivery, Assessment Design
This is a re-post of Dr. Canda Mueller’s popular “Performance Assessments – Part 1” originally posted January 15, 2015 A performance assessment is a test in which a student performs some number of tasks to show his or her knowledge, skills, and abilities in a...
by admin | Jun 22, 2015 | Assessment Delivery, Performance Scoring
This is the third in a four part blog series on how to help students pick up information, keep information, and retrieve information. In essence, this series of blogs will define how to help students learn and possibly perform better on tests. Learning is the act of...
by admin | Mar 31, 2015 | Assessment Delivery
Last week, the P21 Partnership for 21st Century Learning held its annual Summit right here in my hometown of Washington, D.C. I got to attend and see the unveiling of a new roadmap to help schools become 21st Century learning environments, which P21 defines in terms...
by admin | Mar 16, 2015 | Assessment Delivery
In the last few posts, this blog series has dispelled some myths about test difficulty as a function of item type and explained how a test’s intended purpose affects the information that can be gleaned from its results. A test’s difficulty depends mostly on the test...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Assessment Delivery, Assessment Design
A performance assessment is a test in which a student performs some number of tasks to show his or her knowledge, skills, and abilities in a particular area, such as conducting a science experiment. That is, a student must show how to solve a problem using what he or...
