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Performance Assessment: What's Out There and How Useful Is It Really?.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Arter, Judy |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Abstract | Some observations an offered about alternative assessment devices, performance assessments in particular. The act of conducting alternative assessment does not automatically ensure good assessment. Users must become knowledgeable consumers of published alternative assessment tools and developers of local and classroom assessments. Performance and other alternative assessments are a useful part of the assessment arsenal; they must be carefully integrated into large-scale assessments and tne public must become educated consumers of the information offered by alternative assessment. Annotated bibliographies of 117 articles about alternative assessment gathered by the Test Center of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory are included in the following areas: (1) mathematics; (2) reading; and (3) portfolios. Charts summarize assessment instruments, anthologies, achievement tests in speaking and listening, and educational agencies interested in alternative assessment. Criteria for selecting and reviewing assessment tools in speaking and learning are also summarized in tabular form. (SLD) ********************************************4*************************+ Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the ,,est that can be made from the original documnt. *******************************************OC*.************************* PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: WHAT'S OUT THERE AND HOW USEFUL IS IT REALLY? U.S. DEPARTMENT OP EDUCATION Once of Educiaondg Affloatch end intotovonve.1 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER 1ERICI documont Ma n riKWOduced OS wowed frOm Ill. WW1 O OripnizatiOn originating it o Minor Minim Mrs ben made to Improve roroducori queiety Points of wen,/ Of Ogoini Ong WSW! in Ma doCu" mem do not necImanly rearmnt otticIal OEM pOsition pr pOlicy Introduction Judy Arter Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory 101 S.W. Main, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97204 503-275-9562 -PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Tu7n7_hi I k-TE TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERIC1.The Test Center at NWREL, established as pan of our OERI laboratory funding. is a lending library of assessment instruments and a source of technical assistance to educators in the Northwest. In support of our lending function, we make systematic collection efforts In several chosen topical areas each year. These result either in a °Consumer Guide -a description and review of the assessment tools available in the area -or an annotated bibliography. Test Center staff have made systematic collection efforts in the areas of assessment instruments for measuring higher-order thinking skills, school and classroom climate, self-concept, student motivation to learn, writing, speaking and listening, leadership, early childhood education, screening students into TAG programs, and alcohol/drug use surveys. Over the last two years we have also been gathering information on alternative assessment devices. Cwrently, we have In our collection over 75 titles in the area of using student portfolios for assessment, 25 titles relating to assessment alternatives in reading, and 15 titles about assessment akematives in math. Annotated bibliographies of these alternative assessment devices are continually being updated and are available upon request from the author. Other Consumer Guides and annotated bibliographies are available from NWREL and ERIC. Ail the instruments and articles In the Test Center, Including tN.; large collection of assessment alternatives, are available for inspection to educators in the Northwest on three week loan, through the mat This is an inspection service only; once a person has declded on an assessment tool, he or she is Instructed to contact the author or publisher. This has been a free service, supported In the past by OERI, and soon to be supported In other ways. Last year we circulated over 2000 titles to over 500 Individuals. In addition to the lending library and Consumer Guide functions, Test Center staff prcvide technical assistance in assessment to an additional 200 callers a year. This assistance ranges from help with convening scores on norm-referenced tests, to helping people find sources of item banks, to more recent keen interest in assessment alternatives. Based on the review of a large number of assessment instruments, the systematic effort to track down assessment instruments In a number of topical areas, and discussions with a large number of end users of assessment tools, I wodd like to offer the following observations about alternative assessment devices In general and performance assessments In particular. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 1991. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED333051.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
