Friday, January 28, 2011

Modern Measurement: Chapter 9 : Performance Related Measures


 

A Psychometric Perspective on Performance Assessment

 

-          Terminology of Performance Assessment

-          Defining Performance Assessment

-          Examples of PA

 

Characteristics of Performance Assessments

 

-          Three common characteristics

o   Require examinees to respond to stimulus in a manner other than selecting one choice from presented alternatives

o   Intended to gauge sophisticated thinking skills

o   To score them, someone must inspect response and apply evaluative judgment

 

Organizing Performance Assessments


-          Two rough categories of performance assessment

o   Task centered

o   Construct centered

-          A PA taxonomy

o   Type of reasoning competency employed

o   Nature of cognitive continuum employed

o   Kind of response yielded.

 

Special Types of Performance Assessment

 

-          Authentic assessment as performance assessment

-          Rather than use proxy format

-          Complex performance assessments

 

Validity Issues

 

-          Importance and difficulty in amassing validity evidence for Pas

-          PA Validity evaluation as interpretative argument

-          Construct evidence for Pas

 

Essays as Performance Assessments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GW Comment / Question

 

-          Is there a survey equivalent to Performance Assessment – focus group ?



 

 

 

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