Performance Assessment [microform] : An International Experiment / Brian McLean Semple
- Bib ID:
- 5550874
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Semple, Brian McLean
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED350353
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992
- 61 p.
- ISBN:
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- 9780886851279
- 0886851270
- Summary:
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The second International Assessment of Educational Progress focused on the mathematics and science achievement of 13-year-olds. Performance assessments were used as part of the overall assessment in four countries (England, Scotland, Soviet Union, and Taiwan) and five Canadian provinces. The performance assessment approach drew heavily on the experience of the United Kingdom in such assessments, but added features to meet the needs of an international study. The performance tasks required students to apply concepts, observe, measure, manipulate equipment and materials, and record and interpret data. Approximately 3,000 students participated in the 1991 mathematics and science assessments. Scores varied widely from task to task and from country to country. Relative performance of countries and provinces generally differed from those identified by written curriculum-based tests. A major lesson learned from the experimental test administration is that this form of performance assessment can be used reliably in international comparative studies although at an estimated cost three to four times greater than that for an equivalent number of written test questions. Sample mathematics and science tasks are included, and there is an appendix on problem solving in mathematics that describes outcomes produced by Scottish students. (SLD)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC.
- Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
- Sponsoring Agency: Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.
- Contract Number: IAD-91-0222.
- Contract Number: SDE-8955070.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Academic Achievement
- Adolescents
- Comparative Testing
- Educational Assessment
- Foreign Countries
- International Studies
- Junior High School Students
- Junior High Schools
- Mathematics Achievement
- Performance Based Assessment
- Problem Solving
- Sciences
- Scores
- Student Evaluation
- Test Construction
- Test Results
- International Assessment of Educational Progress
- Other authors/contributors:
- Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Center for the Assessment of Educational Progress
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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