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Roeber, Edward – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2016
In this webinar, Dr. Edward Roeber, Assessment Director for the Michigan Assessment Consortium, addressed what educators need to know about formative, summative, and interim assessments and how each functions in a coherent assessment system. This Q&A addressed the questions participants had for Dr. Roeber following the webinar. The webinar…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Alternative Assessment
Slaney, Kathleen L. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
Kathleen Slaney, associate professor in the History, Quantitative and Theoretical Psychology stream in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, comments on three issues she considers central to a fruitful discussion of how "validity" should be used in the context of testing.
Descriptors: Test Validity, Educational Practices, Praxis, Evaluation Criteria
Widaman, Keith F. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2014
Latent variable structural equation modeling has become the analytic method of choice in many domains of research in psychology and allied social sciences. One important aspect of a latent variable model concerns the relations hypothesized to hold between latent variables and their indicators. The most common specification of structural equation…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Predictor Variables, Educational Research, Causal Models
Tranquist, Joakim – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
In the vast evaluation literature, there are numerous accounts describing the emergence of the field of evaluation. However, texts on evaluation history often describe how structural conditions for conducting evaluation have changed over time, often from an American perspective. Inspired by the Oral History Team, the purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral History, Evaluation Research, Researchers
Hendricks, Michael – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
This issue of "American Journal of Evaluation" presents commentaries by evaluation leaders, George Grob and Rakesh Mohan, which draw upon their wealth of practical experience to address questions about evaluator advocacy, including What is meant by the word "advocacy"? Should evaluators ever advocate? If so, when and how? What…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Advocacy, Role, Evaluation Research
Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2013
In this rejoinder, Maydeu-Olivares states that, in item response theory (IRT) measurement applications, the application of goodness-of-fit (GOF) methods informs researchers of the discrepancy between the model and the data being fitted (the room for improvement). By routinely reporting the GOF of IRT models, together with the substantive results…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Models, Evaluation Methods, Item Response Theory
Livingston, Michael – English Journal, 2012
At 12:30 p.m. on December 8, 1941, in front of a joint session of Congress, one day after Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor and killed 2,402 Americans, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared December 7 a date that would live in infamy. He spoke of rage and betrayal, hardships and determination. Thirty-three minutes after he finished…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Grading, Scoring Rubrics, Figurative Language
Paola Uccelli – Grantee Submission, 2023
Language-in-education research can contribute to transformative progress toward educational equity and excellence. Although this assertion is likely uncontroversial within the field of language in education, agreeing on which types of research lead to which transformative progress is much less straightforward. The thought-provoking commentaries on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism, Language of Instruction
Clift, Renée T. – Studying Teacher Education, 2017
Author Renee T. Clift provides this commentary on the articles presented in this issue of "Studying Teacher Education." Clift begins by writing that while this issue of the journal gives voice to teacher educators who are seeking to better understand and improve their work with teacher candidates during the practicum experience, she…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Practicums, Teacher Educators, Expertise
Scharaschkin, Alex – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
This issue's featured article, "Assessment and Learning: Fields Apart" (Baird, Andrich, Hopfenbeck, and Stobart 2017) raises issues that are of basic importance for the disciplines of assessment and teaching and learning theory. In this commentary, Alex Scharaschkin restricts his remarks to a few areas. He considers the idea of a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Test Theory, Psychometrics
Chouinard, Jill Anne – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
In the original paper, it was argued that while there is an array of methods and methodologies available, their use is delimited by the culture of accountability that prevails in public sector institutions, a fact that is particularly problematic given the complexity and diversity of evaluation contexts today. This short rejoinder, to responses…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Public Sector, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Utilization
Lessons Learned: A Retired Principal Returning to University Teaching Offers Advice for New Teachers
Reed, Candi Mascia – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2020
Candi Mascia Reed is a retired principal of programs for deaf and hard of hearing students in the Total Communication programs of Bergen County Special Services in the Hackensack School District in New Jersey. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at The College of New Jersey, Special Education Language and Literacy, Deaf Education Teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Teacher Education Programs
Datta, Lois-ellin – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Jill Chouinard, in her article "The Case for Participatory Evaluation in an Era of Accountability" (this issue, p. 237), may be re-iterating what has often been claimed and arguably is infused already in much of our theory and practice: the value of participatory approaches in some, perhaps many situations. She summarizes these claims eloquently…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Reader Response, Evaluation Research
Erskine, Janet L. – Multicultural Education, 2014
After two decades teaching elementary aged children, Janet Erskine states that she has grown increasingly concerned with the use of high-stakes tests to determine how well students, teachers, and schools are performing. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandates took effect in 2002, requiring the results on some standardized assessments be used to…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Testing Accommodations, Educational Legislation, Accountability
Briggs, Derek C. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
In the United States, students have historically taken large-scale assessments for many different purposes. One purpose that is shared with many other countries is a desire to monitor aggregate trends in educational attainment in core subject domains such as literacy, mathematics, and science. In this commentary, the author examines testing,…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Learning, Psychometrics