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Download full textBaker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2010
This report provides an overview of what was known about alternative assessment at the time that the article was written in 1991. Topics include beliefs about assessment reform, overview of alternative assessment including research knowledge, evidence of assessment impact, and critical features of alternative assessment. The author notes that in…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Performance Based Assessment
Direct linkMartinez, Jose Felipe; Goldschmidt, Pete; Niemi, David; Baker, Eva L.; Sylvester, Roxanne M. – Educational Assessment, 2007
We conducted generalizability studies to examine the extent to which ratings of language arts performance assignments, administered in a large, diverse, urban district to students in second through ninth grades, result in reliable and precise estimates of true student performance. The results highlight three important points when considering the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Language Arts, Academic Achievement, Urban Areas
PDF pending restorationBaker, Eva L. – 1984
This chapter addresses the problems encountered in the formative evaluation of instructional development projects and the instructional development process. Three types of formative evaluation--component, convergent, and contextual--are distinguished, and the consequences of using the wrong type of evaluation in a particular situation or project…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization
PDF pending restorationBaker, Eva L.; Alkin, Marvin C. – 1984
This chapter discusses current methods of formative evaluation and suggests that these methods themselves need to be subjected to more critical research and evaluation in order to provide them with a more scientific base. Topics addressed include problems and methods associated with data gathering, evaluation designs, number of subjects available,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization
Baker, Eva L. – 1986
Ways to improve the validity of assessment of college students are discussed. Validity problems often have occurred because the purpose of assessment was not clear. Traditionally, college students have been tested for admission and placement. However, the results of these tests have been used for other purposes, such as comparing institutions.…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria
Baker, Eva L. – 1986
Some special problems associated with evaluating intelligent computer-assisted instruction (ICAI) programs are addressed. This paper intends to describe alternative approaches to the assessment and improvement of such applications and to provide examples of efforts undertaken and shortfalls. Issues discussed stem chiefly from the technical demands…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Criterion Referenced Tests
Baker, Eva L. – 1976
The intent of formative evaluation is to improve programs as well as to justify their continuation. It is critical to separate clearly those functions of the evaluation which are political from those which may lead the way to instructional improvement. Data for formative evaluation should be gathered in an interpretable way at the level at which…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Instructional Improvement
Baker, Eva L. – Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004
The goal of scaling up of educational innovation is to produce robust, effective, replicable outcomes. This report addresses requirements to support scale-up of scientifically vetted innovation (or new ideas that are built on the findings of quality research and development). In this report, a number of issues are considered: the context of…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Scientific Research, Evaluation Methods, Research Design
O'Neil, Harold F., Jr.; Baker, Eva L. – 1987
Among opportunities to advance the state of the art of intelligent computer-assisted instruction (ICAI) are the evaluation of ICAI systems and the use of the underlying technology in ICAI systems to develop tests. Each issue is addressed via its theoretical context, key constructs, appropriate references to the literature, methodological aspects,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Baker, Eva L. – 1973
The need for common measures in research on teaching is legend, and the merits of teaching performance tests to meet this requirement are explored here. A regression study where teacher performance tests were used as dependent measures is described. Sixth-four subjects were given objective-based lessons to teach. During their lesson, they were…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Programs
Baker, Eva L. – 1979
In the early 1970s educational evaluation's fusion of respect for rationality, power to implement rational procedure, and an altruistic objective (improved instruction) appealed to educational researchers. Dealing essentially with closed systems, it measured program success by student performance on measurement instruments. Critics exclaimed that…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
It is difficult to base evaluations on concepts irrelevant to state policy making. Evaluation of a multiproject program requires both time and differentiation of method. Data from the California Early Childhood Program illustrate process variables for program component analysis, and research questions for intraprogram comparison. (CP)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBaker, Eva L.; Schacter, John – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This discussion of the use of expert performance as the basis for inferring assessment scoring criteria in evaluating student performance considers characteristics of experts and difficulties in use of adult expertise to evaluate student performance. The use of gifted students' performances as benchmarks is suggested as possibly providing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Alternative Assessment, Benchmarking
Baker, Eva L. – 2003
This paper examines multiple measures of performance in school accountability systems from two perspectives: laterally (different indicators of different domains) and vertically (indicators that are at different levels of depth of the same domain). From these perspectives, organizational responsibility and instructional sensitivity are examined.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adaptive Testing, Adjustment (to Environment), Evaluation Methods
Baker, Eva L. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Over the last 20 years, writing about technology (and more recently about its use in assessment systems) has been a joyful experience, in part because the author was usually right about how fast and how unexpected technology progress would be made. In this article, the author suggests to rethink assessment systems from design perspectives and the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
