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Tarricone, Pina; Newhouse, C. Paul – Educational Assessment, 2017
In this article we describe a three-year study that was conducted in three phases to evaluate the feasibility of assessing digitized portfolios of student creative work for high-stakes purposes. The first two phases suggested that creative work could be digitized with adequate fidelity, and that students could submit their own work from schools to…
Descriptors: Scoring, Reliability, Comparative Analysis, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Lander, Natalie; Morgan, Philip J.; Salmon, Jo; Barnett, Lisa M. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2016
Fundamental movement skills (FMS) competence is low in adolescent girls. An assessment tool for teachers is needed to monitor FMS in this demographic. The present study explored whether the Canadian Agility and Movement Skill Assessment (CAMSA) is feasible for use by physical education (PE) teachers of Australian Year 7 girls in a school setting.…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Physical Education
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Newhouse, C. Paul – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
This paper presents the findings of the first phase of a three-year study investigating the efficacy of the digitisation of creative practical work as digital portfolios for the purposes of high-stakes summative assessment. At the same time the paired comparisons method of scoring was tried as an alternative to analytical rubric-based marking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summative Evaluation, Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing
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McAllister, Margaret; Hasking, Penelope; Estefan, Andrew; McClenaghan, Kerry; Lowe, John – Journal of School Nursing, 2010
Every day in Queensland, Australia, student services within schools are responding to children who have deliberately self-injured. Although school nurses are in a prime position to effectively intervene, mitigate risk, and promote healthy self-caring behaviors, no programs that focus specifically on self-harm currently exist. This feasibility…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Feasibility Studies, Health Programs, School Nurses
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Newhouse, Paul – Australian Educational Computing, 2010
This paper reports on one part of the first year of a three-year study into the feasibility of using digital technologies to represent the output from practical assessment tasks in senior secondary courses. The aim was to improve the alignment of assessment with pedagogy and curriculum. Students in seven classes studying the "Applied…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Secondary School Students, Student Evaluation
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Williams, P. John – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2012
This paper reports on the results of a 3-year study conducted at the Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies (CSaLT) at Edith Cowan University in collaboration with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia which concerns the potential to use digital technologies to represent the output from assessment tasks in the senior secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Photography, Performance Based Assessment