Large-scale testing is dominated by the multiple-choice question format. Widespread use of the format is due, in part, to the ease with which multiple-choice items can be scored automatically. This paper examines automatic scoring procedures for an alternative item type: figural response. Figural response items call for the completion or modification of figural material, including illustrations, diagrams, and graphs. Twenty-five science items were written in cooperation with the National...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Automation, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Multiple Choice Tests,...
This publication presents information about the technical characteristics of the 1997 Florida Writing Assessment Program, Grades 4, 8, and 10. Descriptive and statistical information is provided for the census assessment, and the procedures used in prompt development, pilot testing, field testing, scoring, and item banking are reviewed. The psychometric properties of the 1998 census assessment are also examined. The Florida Writing Assessment Program evaluates the proficiency of students in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests, Pilot Projects,...
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The Virtual Environment Traumatic Brain Injury Screen (VETS) prototype was designed to enable the assessment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This research aims to establish baseline data for balance as an indicator for mTBI and determine reliability of the VETS device. Objectives of this research were to examine the within-session and between-day performance of four balance-based indictors of mTBI with a healthy military population. Fifteen healthy individuals participated in two...
Topics: Concussion, mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), traumatic brain injury (TBI), balance, Sensory...
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The four objectives addressed were the description of credit scoring development, the identification of management uses and attendant disadvantages of scoring, an evaluation of the current and potential uses of scoring in banks and credit unions, and the determination of whether military servicemen are adversely affected by scoring. The conclusions reached were that the advantages of scoring appear to especially outweigh the disadvantages for large volume lending institutions with access to...
Topics: Management, Consumer credit, Point scoring, Credit scoring, Credit, Credit rating of servicemen
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This is the scoring cap for Vex Turning Point Competition. For accurate dimensions set slicer to MM.
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The purpose of this paper is to derive asymptotically efficient estimates for the autoregressive matrix coefficients and moving average covariance matrices of the vector autoregressive moving average (VARMA) models in both time and frequency domains. To do this we shall apply the Newton-Raphson and scoring methods to the maximum likelihood equations derived from modified likelihood functions under the Gaussian Assumption.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ahrabi,Fereydoon, STANFORD UNIV CALIF DEPT OF STATISTICS, *REGRESSION ANALYSIS,...
The specific objectives of this research were to evaluate the relationship between gunner's and tank commander's: (1) scores on a series of potentially predictive paper-and-pencil tests and main-gun Tank Table performance; (2) intermediate tank gunnery training task performance and main- gun Tank Table performance; (3) composite scores and their performance on the main-gun Tank Tables ; and (4) to evaluate the relationship between aptitude test scores and driver performance as measured by...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Eaton, Newell K, ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ALEXANDRIA...
Implicit and explicit knowledge of the second language (L2) are two central constructs in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in obtaining valid and reliable measures of L2 learners' implicit and explicit knowledge (e.g., Bowles, 2011; R. Ellis, 2005). The purpose of the present study was to examine the nature of the knowledge representations developed by two groups of learners of Spanish as a L2 at different levels of proficiency....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Research, Language Proficiency,...
This scoring record documents the efforts of Shaw Environmental, Inc. to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the YPG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Open Field. The scoring record was coordinated by Larry Overbay and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Overbay, Larry, Jr, ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD, *DEMONSTRATIONS, *FIELD TESTS, *INERT...
This study investigated how Squadron Officer School Class O7D students perceived the characteristics of effective teachers by having them rank their own teachers on each of the 28 characteristics identified in the Teacher Behaviors Checklist (TBC). The study sought to determine whether there were any statistically significant differences in the total scores of male and female students, and whether there were any statistically significant differences in the total scores of students and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, O'Meara, Kevin T, AUBURN UNIV AL, *STUDENTS, *AIR FORCE PERSONNEL, *INSTRUCTORS,...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest public health system in the United States. As of June 2008, it provided care to Veterans through 153 medical centers and 737 community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs). This research investigates differences in contract versus VA-staffed CBOCs in terms of patient satisfaction, clinic wait times within 30 days for appointments, and missed clinic opportunity rates. Contract versus VA-staffing of a CBOC serves as the grouping variable in...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR, *PATIENTS,...
A common method used by states, school districts, teachers, parents, and students to assess learning is through use of a scoring guide or rubric. Instructors in a teacher education setting describe their use of rubrics with preservice teachers in the expectation that these teacher candidates would eventually be using rubrics themselves and could benefit from their use as students. Instructors in the School of Education developed a scoring guide for sections of the same course, and others...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods,...
Student science journals were evaluated as an assessment tool to demonstrate student performance throughout the course and the opportunities students have to learn science in their classrooms. The study was conducted with 163 fifth graders from 7 classrooms, although 1 teacher did not collect student journals, reducing the sample size. Close and proximal assessments were administered before and after instruction in each of two units. Student journals within a class were selected based on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades,...
The Achievement-Levels Setting (ALS) process for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) resulted in numerical cutscores on the NAEP score scale representing the performance standards for three achievement levels: Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. This paper focuses on an important, but less researched, aspect of the standard setting process using an item-rating approach--the patterns and changes in panelists' item ratings. Instead of analyzing the cutpoints based on item ratings,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Civics, Evaluation Methods, National...
This report describes ongoing research investigating the use of teachers' assignments as an indicator of classroom practice. The purpose of this work is to develop a measure of students' learning environments that potentially could be used to help monitor the influence of school reform efforts on the quality of the classroom learning environment and support the improvement of instructional practice. Past research indicated good results in regard to the technical quality and feasibility of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Assignments, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Quality,...
The purposes of this study were to investigate the role of benchmark writing samples in direct assessment of writing and to examine the consequences of differential benchmark selection with a common writing rubric. The influences of discourse and grade level were also examined within the context of differential benchmark selection. Raters scored sets of writing samples against a common writing rubric. Ratings were completed for 317 students in grade 3, 180 I grade 5, and 172 in grade 8. Twelve...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Benchmarking, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interrater...
The 2003 NAAL is a complex assessment with several components and various types of data. The primary purpose of this publication is to describe the assessment's key features and data types. Thus, the publication covers the critical concepts and features carried over from the 1992 assessment, as well as those new to the 2003 assessment--for example, new performance levels that are used to report results (see section 2) and new components that provide expanded data on the least-literate adults...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Literacy, National Surveys, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Comparative...
The Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments (TRE) study was designed to demonstrate and explore innovative use of computers for developing, administering, scoring, and analyzing the results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments. Two scenarios (Search and Simulation) were created for measuring problem solving with technology and administered to nationally representative samples of students. Resultant data were used to describe the measurement characteristics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Testing, National Competency Tests, Problem Solving, Simulation,...
This series of documents contains performance scoring information for 2004-2005 for individual institutions of higher education in South Carolina. This information is used in establishing 2005-2006 fiscal year allocations. Data includes: (1) Degrees Awarded; (2) Enrollment; (3) Average SAT score; (4) Faculty; (5) Tuition; and (6) Financial revenue. Evaluative scores are provided based on: (1) Mission Focus; (2) Quality of Faculty; (3) Classroom Quality; (4) Institutional Cooperation and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Colleges, Scoring, Resource Allocation, Academic Degrees, Enrollment Trends,...
This series of documents contains performance scoring information for 2004-2005 for individual institutions of higher education in South Carolina. This information is used in establishing 2005-2006 fiscal year allocations. Data includes: (1) Degrees Awarded; (2) Enrollment; (3) Average SAT score; (4) Faculty; (5) Tuition; and (6) Financial revenue. Evaluative scores are provided based on: (1) Mission Focus; (2) Quality of Faculty; (3) Classroom Quality; (4) Institutional Cooperation and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Colleges, Scoring, Resource Allocation, Academic Degrees, Enrollment Trends,...
Anyone who has worked as a teacher or principal in an elementary school understands the value of reliable and valid assessments of early reading progress. In order to implement an effective reading program, schools should have a coordinated plan for using screening, progress monitoring, diagnostics and outcome measures to guide instruction and to conduct program evaluation. One of the critical goals of the "Reading First" initiative in Florida is to increase the quality and frequency...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Early Reading, Program Evaluation, Management Systems,...
This report examines the potential of adaptive testing, two?-stage testing in particular, for improving the data quality of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Following a discussion of the rationale for adaptive testing in assessment and a review of previous studies of two-?stage testing, this report describes a 1993 Ohio field trial of two-?stage assessment carried out, under the direction of the authors, by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). The trial was part...
Topics: ERIC Archive, National Competency Tests, Test Validity, Feasibility Studies, Educational...
Traditional knowledge assessments rely on multiple-choice type questions that only report a right or wrong answer. The reliance within the education system on this technique infers that a student who provides a correct answer purely through guesswork possesses knowledge equivalent to a student who actually knows the correct answer. A more complete assessment is needed to eliminate guesswork and offer greater efficiency in managing the remediation process. Confidence-based assessment techniques...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Multiple Choice Tests, Guessing (Tests), Confidence Testing, Grading,...
Computerized adaptive testing procedures (CATPs) based on the graded response method (GRM) of F. Samejima (1969) and the partial credit model (PCM) of G. Masters (1982) were developed and compared. Both programs used maximum likelihood estimation of ability, and item selection was conducted on the basis of information. Two simulated data sets, one with 1,000 simulated examinees and one with 500 simulated examinees, were generated according to a linear analytic model. Both contained responses to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ability Identification, Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted...
Problems of validity and reliability of concept mapping are addressed by using item-response theory (IRT) models for scoring. In this study, the overall structure of students' concept maps are defined by the number of links, the number of hierarchies, the number of cross-links, and the number of examples. The study was conducted with 92 students in four classes at a junior high school in Canada. Results show that IRT scoring of concept maps is generally valid and reliable. The correlation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alternative Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Concept Mapping, Correlation,...
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Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS) were developed to score responses from a previously designed police written communication test that lacked reliability. Rating scales for each of the 9 dimensions of the test consisted of the scale definition and a 5-point continuum, with the scores of 5, 3, and 1 defined by specified behavioral incidents. Ten raters (graduate students) were trained to score the test using a Frame-of-Reference technique. Fifty tests previously completed by police...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Interrater Reliability,...
The Ability Explorer (AE) is a newly developed self-report inventory of abilities that is appropriate for group or individual administration. There are machine-scorable and hand-scorable versions of the test, and there are two levels. Level 1 is for students from junior high to high school, and Level 2 is for high school students and adults. Separate scores are reported for 14 work-related abilities that are considered important for employers: (1) artistic; (2) clerical; (3) interpersonal; (4)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ability, Adolescents, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Educational Assessment, Employment...
This practicum was designed to improve the reading and language arts skills of students, not already served by special education programs, who were demonstrating difficulties in the regular education classroom and were at risk for poor or failing school performance. Solution strategies utilized for this practicum included a collaborative consultation pre-referral interventions program; inservice workshop activities to increase the collaborative competencies of the staff; and staff inservice...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consultation Programs, Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Inservice Teacher...
Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) of 1994 provides funds for schools with large concentrations of children from low-income families. A fundamental requirement is that children served by Title I funds must be educated according to the same academic standards as all other students. This handbook focuses on methods for developing performance standards in the aligned system of standards and assessments required by IASA Title I. The handbook aims to capture the best of current...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Cutting Scores,...
The College Pathways series grew out of the findings in "Beating the Odds," a study of thirteen high-performing New York City high schools by Carol Ascher and Cindy Maguire for the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Each of the schools admitted ninth-graders with high poverty rates and far-below-average reading and math scores but produced four-year graduation rates and college acceptance above the district average, and well above other high schools serving similar students. To...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, School Effectiveness, Best Practices, College Preparation, Scoring...
Secondary vocational-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through increased requirements for mastery and attainment of competency as documented through both formative and summative assessments. The courses in this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Vocational Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Early Childhood Education,...
It can be difficult to find adequate strategies when teaching problem solving in a standard based mathematics classroom. The purpose of this study was to improve students' problem solving skills and attitudes through differentiated instruction when working on lengthy performance tasks in cooperative groups. This action research studied for 15 days whether students in a treatment group (n = 28), who were grouped by learning styles (auditory, kinesthetic, and visual), would display greater...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individualized Instruction, Cognitive Style, Homogeneous Grouping, Cooperative...
In 2007, the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) conducted an assessment of a sample of Year 6 and Year 10 students across Australia to assess their proficiency in civics and citizenship. The assessment of civics and citizenship is part of a national plan that has been put in place to monitor and report on student achievement against the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century. The National Goals--and the importance of monitoring...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Educational Testing, National Programs,...
English language learners (ELLs) in K-12 schools continue to increase in number across the country. In California alone, about 1.5 million students are not sufficiently proficient in English to perform optimally in mainstream classrooms. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 emphasizes the need for highly qualified teachers, but just who is qualified to apply best educational practices to help ELLs reach their potential in an academic environment? This article will discuss how the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education Programs, English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction,...
The current paper reports an experience implementing a small-scale narrow listening scheme (one of the varieties of extensive listening) with intermediate learners of English as a foreign language in a Colombian university. The paper presents (a) how the scheme was designed and implemented, including materials and procedures (the process); (b) how the students performed in the different activities with an emphasis on time spent watching/listening and their perceptions of video difficulty and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language...
In response to widespread concern that many American students do not write well enough to meet the requirements of higher education and the workplace, the College Board's National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges has called for a writing revolution. A key component of this revolution is evaluation, with particular emphasis on the need to align writing standards, writing instruction, and writing assessment. Teachers of writing want to provide their students with the kind...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Reading, Writing Tests,...
The Multiple-Station Range Target System (RTS) is a high-fidelity engagement simulator. Using RTS, Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) and Forward Area Air Defense System (FAADS) crews employ their actual weapons in simulated or live-fire engagement of subscale, fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. RTS permits training and evaluation of individuals, crews, and platoons; provides detailed crew performance scoring and feedback; and can be moved from one location to another and rapidly deployed for a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Berry, Gene, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP EL PASO TX, *AIR DEFENSE,...
In its 2011 Final Report, the Military Leadership Diversity Council directed the Armed Forces to develop a demographically diverse leadership. Using multivariate probit and linear regression analysis, and a dataset of 204,000 non-prior service active duty enlisted accessions who entered service between 2003 and 2009, I examine the factors that explain differences in Hispanics and non-Hispanics performance outcomes such as first-term attrition, reenlistment and promotion, which ultimately affect...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *HISPANICS, *MARINE CORPS PERSONNEL,...
During USAF undergraduate pilot training (UPT), instructors and students alternate weekly between an early-reporting (0530) and late-reporting (1030-1230) daily work schedule. A preliminary study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the alternating weekly schedule on pilot fatigue and sleep. Both student and instructor pilots reported a modest fatigue level when they began their early-morning duty days. Its only operational impact would be due to the fact that performance deterioration is...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rokicki, Stephen M, SCHOOL OF AEROSPACE MEDICINE BROOKS AFB TX, *FLIGHT TRAINING,...
A conventional verbal ability test and a Bayesian adaptive verbal ability test were compared using a variety of psychometric criteria. Tests were administered to 550 marine recruits, half of whom received two 30-item alternate forms of a conventional test and half of whom received two 30-item alternate forms a Bayesian adaptive test. Both types of tests were computer administered and were followed by a 50-item conventional verbal ability criterion test. The alternate forms of the adaptive test...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Martin,John T, MINNESOTA UNIV MINNEAPOLIS COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING LAB, *VERBAL...
The measurements of changes in human performance during laboratory studies of long-term (sustained) continuous work periods has been greatly facilitated with the introduction of computer administered and scored tasks. This report documents six minicomputer administered tasks and their scoring programs which have been successfully used in the Sustained Operations research program at the Naval Health Research Center. The minicomputer system used in these studies was a MINC-11 (Modular...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ryman,David H, NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA, *Performance(Human),...
In the applied forecasting literature much attention has been lavished on questions about the evaluation of probability forecasts, and the subjectivist view of probability has been invoked to aggregate probability forecasts over a diverse set of events or statements. One criterion invoked in such evaluations is that of calibration: a set of statements or events is considered and we ask if x percent of those assigned probability x of being correct prove to be correct, for each value of x. From...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DeGroot, Morris H, CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF STATISTICS,...
Adverse impact issues have posed a challenge to military personnel selection. The purpose of the current study was to examine group differences in performance on tests used to qualify applicants for US Air Force officer commissioning and aircrew training programs. In particular, the impact of raising minimum qualifying scores on selection ratios for majority and minority groups was examined. Results indicated that strict application of the current minimum qualifying standards, along with...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Carretta, Thomas R, AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH HUMAN...
The purpose of this thesis is to identify and assess factors that predict the performance of junior officers in the operating forces of the U.S. Marine Corps. In this analysis, fitness report scores are used as indicators of performance. We concentrate on the effect of performance at The Basic School (TBS) and other demographic characteristics on fitness report scores. The data used in this analysis includes information on all officers who were newly commissioned between 1998 and 2005, TBS...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wiler, Darby, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *MARINE CORPS, *PREDICTIONS,...
The concept test fairness has developed only recently. A major impetus in the development and application of the concept has come from the publication of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGES) in 1978. The UGES are interpreted as mandating the use of a regression model in evaluating test fairness. A technique was developed utilizing a regression for the groups identified by the UGES: Blacks, American Indians, Asians, Hispanics, Caucasians and females. The regression of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Dohme, John A, ARMY RESEARCH INST FIELD UNIT FORT RUCKER AL, *APTITUDE TESTS, *FLIGHT...
In 1990, a study was conducted at Rio Hondo College (Whittier, California) to determine if readers exhibited any bias in scoring test papers that were composed on a word processor as opposed to being written by hand. The study began with the formulation of tentative pilot study questions and the development of procedures to address them. Three areas of inquiry were devised: whether reader bias skewed the scores on word-processed papers; what factors contributed to reader bias; and what factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bias, Community Colleges, Evaluators, Handwriting, Holistic Evaluation,...
