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Full-Text Articles in Education
Assessing Ict Literacy Via Computer, Ray Philpot
Assessing Ict Literacy Via Computer, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Factors That Influence The Difficulty Of Problem Solving Items, Dara Ramalingam, Ray Philpot
Factors That Influence The Difficulty Of Problem Solving Items, Dara Ramalingam, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Computer-based assessment of problem solving allows problems of both static and interactive natures to be posed. Examples of static problems are scheduling and logic puzzles in which all relevant information is available to the solver at the outset. Problems of an interactive nature, on the other hand, require exploration of the situation to acquire additional knowledge needed to solve the problem. Examples include discovering how to use an unfamiliar mobile telephone or automatic vending machine. This study used data from the 2011 Field Trial of the PISA 2012 computer-based assessment of problem solving which comprised 34 static and 45 interactive …
Item Writing For Assessment, Ray Philpot
Item Writing For Assessment, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
A series of workshops to introduce new item writers to the principles of writing multiple choice items, using authentic contexts, to assess higher order thinking skills across the main subject domains.
Performing Well In Timss And Pisa Mathematics And Science, Ray Philpot
Performing Well In Timss And Pisa Mathematics And Science, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Workshops delivered to department heads of participating schools to help schools utilise the released items in TIMSS and PISA by: educating participants about the cognitive skills and processes assessed by TIMSS and PISA in the domains of Mathematics and Science; demonstrating to participants ways that content skills are assessed in TIMSS and PISA items; demonstrating to participants some of the item types and provide recommendations for how teachers can introduce these item types to students; and enabling participants to provide training/orientation to teachers within their schools.
Assessment And Reporting – Key Concepts, Ray Philpot
Assessment And Reporting – Key Concepts, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
A one-day workshop on the key concepts of assessment and reporting across the subjects of English, Mathematics and Science presented to teachers. Included how to use good quality assessments to monitor student growth and to inform teaching and learning.
Measuring Critical And Creative Thinking Ability, Ray Philpot
Measuring Critical And Creative Thinking Ability, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) is a core 21st Century competency. Is CCT ability a single, coherent construct that can be accurately measured, however? The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) conceives CCT as a general capability that consists of four interrelated elements: Inquiring, Analysing, Generating and Reflecting. A study was carried out that tested whether CCT as defined by ACARA is a single construct that can be applied across school levels from Year 1 to Year 10. Trial data consisted of responses from 4,954 students in 48 Victorian Primary and Secondary schools to (various subsets of) 312 assessment …
Writing High Quality Assessment Items, Ray Philpot
Writing High Quality Assessment Items, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
A seminar and workshops on how to develop instruments for a national assessment, with an emphasis on Mathematics.
Developing Large-Scale Assessments, Ray Philpot
Developing Large-Scale Assessments, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
A seminar on large-scale assessment given to a post-graduate class at Boston College, USA. In this seminar I discussed concepts in measurement theory, explained the principles for developing large-scale assessments and gave practical advice on how high quality tests can be constructed.
Critical And Inventive Thinking, Ray Philpot
Critical And Inventive Thinking, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Seminar and workshops on how to develop assessment instruments to measure critical and inventive thinking ability at Primary and Secondary school levels.
Automatic Scoring Of Items In Pisa 2012 Problem Solving, Ray Philpot
Automatic Scoring Of Items In Pisa 2012 Problem Solving, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
The OECD PISA 2012 Problem Solving assessment was delivered on-line and exploited the capabilities of the computer by including many problems where students were required to interact with a virtual scenario. The actions taken by students – clicking buttons, dragging objects etc – were recorded in log files during testing. For many items these logs were used to automatically score the item. In some cases the strategy exhibited by the students as they tackled a problem contributed to the scoring, in addition to whether they managed to solve the problem. In this paper I give an overview of the PISA …