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Identifying Examinees Who Possess Distinct And Reliable Subscores When Added Value Is Lacking For The Total Sample, Joseph A. Rios
Identifying Examinees Who Possess Distinct And Reliable Subscores When Added Value Is Lacking For The Total Sample, Joseph A. Rios
Doctoral Dissertations
Research has demonstrated that although subdomain information may provide no added value beyond the total score, in some contexts such information is of utility to particular demographic subgroups (Sinharay & Haberman, 2014). However, it is argued that the utility of reporting subscores for an individual should not be based on one’s manifest characteristics (e.g., gender or ethnicity), but rather on individual needs for diagnostic information, which is driven by multidimensionality in subdomain scores. To improve the validity of diagnostic information, this study proposed the use of Mahalanobis Distance and HT indices to assess whether an individual’s data significantly departs …
Language Assessment Of Bilingual Children, Or "The Line Forms To The Right!", Olga Romero
Language Assessment Of Bilingual Children, Or "The Line Forms To The Right!", Olga Romero
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Discusses the complexity of language assessment for bilingual children and the implications the right assessment has for success in the classroom.
Looking Beyond Test Scores: An Approach To Reading Assessment, Claudia Grose
Looking Beyond Test Scores: An Approach To Reading Assessment, Claudia Grose
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
The following article grew out of four workshops presented in 1988 to educational evaluators, psychologists, and social workers at the New York City Board of Education. The workshops responded to requests to place the conventional assessment tools regularly used by these professionals into the context of recent research. Beyond the familiar tools and the themes developed here, a number of alternative assessment procedures are beginning to gain currency, opening avenues for new and creative ways to evaluate reading and writing. Until those new procedures gain wider acceptance, it is useful to consider how existing tools can be used more humanely …