The Interchangeability of Assessment Methods in Science. CSE Technical Report 474 [microform] / Brenda Sugrue, Noreen Webb and Jonah Schlackman
- Bib ID:
- 5623246
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- Author:
- Sugrue, Brenda
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 42 p.
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This paper describes a study that investigated the interchangeability of four different assessment methods for measuring middle-school students' understanding of science concepts. The four methods compared were hands-on tasks with associated multiple-choice and written justification items, written analogues of the hands-on tasks, and two types of multiple-choice items that were not related to hands-on or written analogue tasks. Participants were 662 seventh and eighth graders from 21 classes in 5 Los Angeles County (California) schools. Some students took the hands-on test before the written test, and some students took the written test before the hands-on test. Observed and disattenuated correlations were examined. Multivariate generalizability analysis was used to obtain disattenuated correlations. The results indicate that hands-on and written analogue tests are not interchangeable, but multiple-choice choice and written justification items linked to hands-on and written analogues could be considered interchangeable if correlations between 0.76 and 0.96 are an acceptable criterion for interchangeability. In addition, a number of interesting order effects were found. (Contains 1 figure, 12 tables, and 18 references.) (Author/SLD)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: R305B60002.
- ERIC Note: In collaboration with University of Colorado at Boulder, Stanford University, the RAND Corporation, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, Educational Testing Service, and University of Pittsburgh. For other reports in this series, see TM 029 289-293.
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