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Direct linkMiller, Tess – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
Many Canadian provinces provide guidelines for teachers to determine students' final grades by combining a percentage of students' scores from provincial large-scale assessments with their term scores. This practice is thought to hold students accountable by motivating them to put effort into completing the large-scale assessment, thereby…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Scores, Measurement
Miller, Tess; Chahine, Saad; Childs, Ruth A. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
This study illustrates the use of differential item functioning (DIF) and differential step functioning (DSF) analyses to detect differences in item difficulty that are related to experiences of examinees, such as their teachers' instructional practices, that are relevant to the knowledge, skill, or ability the test is intended to measure. This…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Mathematics Tests
Miller, Tess; Klinger, D.; Shulha, L. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
Curriculum reform in Ontario secondary schools proposed that the assessment of student achievement be separated into academic achievement and non-academic achievement or the behaviours that can influence academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' assessment practices of non-academic achievement in Ontario' s grade 9…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
