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Download full textPhelps, Geoffrey; Bridgeman, Brent; Yan, Fred; Steinberg, Jonathan; Weren, Barbara; Zhou, Jiawen – ETS Research Report Series, 2020
In this report we provide preliminary evidence on the measurement characteristics for a new type of teaching performance assessment designed to be combined with complementary assessments of teacher content knowledge. The resulting test, which we refer to as the Foundational Assessment of Competencies for Teaching (FACT), is designed for use as…
Descriptors: Teacher Competency Testing, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Certification
Klieger, David M.; Bridgeman, Brent; Tannenbaum, Richard J.; Cline, Frederick A.; Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
Educational Testing Service (ETS), working with 21 U.S. law schools, evaluated the predictive validity of the GRE® General Test using a sample of 1,587 current and graduated law students. Results indicated that the GRE is a strong, generalizably valid predictor of first-year law school grades and that it provides useful information even when…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Test Validity, Scores
Direct linkBridgeman, Brent; Cho, Yeonsuk; DiPietro, Stephen – Language Testing, 2016
Data from 787 international undergraduate students at an urban university in the United States were used to demonstrate the importance of separating a sample into meaningful subgroups in order to demonstrate the ability of an English language assessment to predict the first-year grade point average (GPA). For example, when all students were pooled…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, English Curriculum, Language Tests, Undergraduate Students
Bridgeman, Brent; And Others – 1996
The various methods for computing the reliability of scores on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations are summarized. For the free response portion of the examinations, raters can contribute to score unreliability through both systematic severity errors (in which some raters consistently rate more severely than other raters) and through…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Entrance Examinations, Error of Measurement, High School Students
Bridgeman, Brent; And Others – 1996
If a student writes two essays, the score reliability can be estimated from the correlation between essays. However, if the essays are in different modes or require different skills, the reliability may be underestimated from the correlation. In Advanced Placement history examinations, students wrote one standard essay and one essay that required…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Constructed Response, Correlation, Essay Tests
Bridgeman, Brent; Cooper, Peter – 1998
Essays for the Graduate Management Admissions Test must be written with a word processor (except in some foreign countries). The test sponsors, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, believed that this is fair because some word processing skill is a prerequisite for advanced management education. Furthermore, it might also be unfair to…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Essay Tests
