by admin | Apr 30, 2015 | Assessment Design
Multidimensional Item Response Theory (MIRT), which is an extension of the unidimensional IRT model, is mostly used for research purposes due to its high complexity and lack of operational use in the assessment industry. Once used operationally, MIRT will allow...
by Taylor Riordan | Apr 20, 2015 | Assessment Design
This is the first in a series of three posts about the importance of the item content review meeting. In this first post, I want to set the stage by describing what I mean by a content review meeting. First, it is a meeting, an arranged assembly of individuals with a...
by admin | Apr 2, 2015 | Assessment Design, Measurement
In Performance Assessments – Part 1, we discussed what is meant by the term “performance assessment,” as well as some of its pros and cons. In this post, we consider the seemingly simple question of why. Why choose performance assessment items? What is the educator...
by admin | Apr 1, 2015 | Assessment Design, Summative Assessments
Most educators agree that the current lecture-style approach to teaching is flawed. Almost all classrooms remain stuck in the same centuries-old paradigm of one-to-many instruction: a lone teacher lecturing to a classroom filled with 30 or more students. Admittedly,...
by admin | Mar 9, 2015 | Assessment Design, Measurement
Issie Lapowsky, writing for Wired Magazine on February 24, 2015, describes a startup focused on giving educators data about their students and schools beyond just test scores (“Startup Launches Tool to Help School Systems See Beyond Test Scores”). The startup,...
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...
