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Becevic, Semir – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Little is known about how teachers construct tests. For that reason, this study addresses the use of teacher-constructed tests for assessing educational goals, expressed in terms of student mathematical competencies. The focus is on meanings that upper secondary school mathematics teachers assign to their own test construction practices for…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Teacher Made Tests, Student Evaluation, Competence
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Altintas, Ozge – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
Feedback plays an important role in classroom learning and teaching process. This study focuses on how feedback can be more effectively used in the formative assessment process. According to this purpose, the study first discusses the concept of student achievement and presents its changing nature in the 21st century. Subsequently, the study…
Descriptors: Test Items, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement
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Verónica Villarroel; Daniela Bruna; Carola Bruna; Gavin Brown; David Boud – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2024
A training course grounded in the principles of authentic assessment was implemented with 24 academics from two Chilean universities. Through a single-group pre-test/post-test design, the change in the evaluated parameters was analysed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the conducted training. By the end of the course, the assessments…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Foreign Countries, Universities, Student Evaluation
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Villarroel, Verónica; Bruna, Daniela; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Bustos, Claudio – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This case study aimed to change the construction of teachers' written tests so that items were designed to assess competencies in an authentic and challenging way. A small group of five psychology teachers participated in 10 sessions of an authentic assessment faculty-training program, to learn to assess problem-solving competencies for situations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Made Tests, Performance Based Assessment
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Wherfel, Quentin M.; Monda-Amaya, Lisa; Shriner, James G. – Preventing School Failure, 2022
The current emphasis on data-based decision-making ties discussions of accountability, school improvement and educational reform to the notion that gathering and using evidence addresses questions of rigor in our schools and classrooms. The purpose of this research was to survey secondary (middle and high school) general educators (n = 126) to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Evidence Based Practice, Student Evaluation, Decision Making
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Tan, Kim Chwee Daniel; Lim, Xin Ying; Talbot, Christopher David – School Science Review, 2021
Online multiple-choice instruments to diagnose students' understanding of science concepts are easily developed and administered to students using Google Forms. This article describes a web-based three-tier multiple-choice test for the formative assessment of students' understanding of chemical bonding. The results obtained can lead to follow-up…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Science Tests, Scientific Concepts