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DeBarger, Angela Haydel; DiBello, Louis; Minstrell, Jim; Feng, Mingyu; Stout, William; Pellegrino, James; Haertel, Geneva; Harris, Christopher; Ructinger, Liliana – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes methods for an alignment study and psychometric analyses of a formative assessment system, Diagnoser Tools for physics. Diagnoser Tools begin with facet clusters as the interpretive framework for designing questions and instructional activities. Thus each question in the diagnostic assessments includes distractors that…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Diagnosis, Validity, Psychometrics
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Feng, Mingyu; Heffernan, Neil T. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2007
Limited classroom time available in middle school mathematics classes forces teachers to choose between assisting students' development and assessing students' abilities. To help teachers make better use of their time, we are integrating assistance and assessment by utilizing a web-based system, ASSISTment, that will offer instruction to students…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, High Stakes Tests, Graduation Requirements, Mathematics Instruction