Category: Testing
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Professional Responsibilities when Scoring Assessments
Read MoreThe topic in my class this week is Professional Responsibilities and Assessment Bias. To prepare my class lecture and activities for the week, I’m reviewing the Codes of Fair Testing Practices, Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement (CPR), and The Standards for Psychological and Educational Testing. There’s so much here. Educational measurement professionals and teachers have so much responsibility to […]
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Reliability Concerns for Classroom Formative Assessment
Read MoreThis week, I started teaching a course called Assessment: Theory and Practice to graduate students in the Leadership program at Saint Mary’s University. More than 70% of the students in the class are K-12 teachers. In a course like this, reliability and validity are of course big topics. In fact, next week’s class (5 hours […]
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The Achievement Gap: Part 2
Read MorePart 2 in the series on the Achievement Gap by guest blogger Takeshi Terada (tera0026@umn.edu). In Part 1 of this series on the Achievement Gap, I described how closing the achievement gap may not necessarily mean that children’s academic performances are getting closer to each other. This is because the achievement gap is defined and […]
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Reliability Concerns for Classroom Summative Assessment
Read MoreAs Jim Popham has so eloquently stated, “Validity and reliability are the meat and potatoes of the measurement game” (Popham, 2006, p. 100). They are what every psychometrician AND teacher need to know and understand. When psychometricians build large scale tests for state departments of education, there’s a list of validity and reliability concerns that they […]
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The Achievement Gap (or Proficiency Trap?): Part 1
Read MoreThis is a guest blog from Takeshi Terada. Takeshi’s interests are in educational policy and assessment. He is particularly interested in data-driven educational evaluation, policy-making & analysis, and decision-making systems in K-12 education that apply both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, mostly using assessment test scores. Takeshi is a graduate of the University of Minnesota […]
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Should Formative Assessments be Scored and Graded?
Read MoreScoring Formative Assessments Often, when I do trainings or demonstrations on how to use the Naiku Platform for formative assessment purposes, I am asked how the assessments are scored and exported to grade books. Essentially, the question boils down to “Should formative assessments be scored and graded?“ This is a good question. However, I am […]
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Interview with Dr. Beach – What problem is Naiku solving for you?
Read MoreThis is a video interview Adisack and I did with Dr. Todd Beach. We’re always talking to our users to see what we can do to make Naiku work better for them. Dr. Beach was kind enough to let us record some of the conversation. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/21086522 w=398&h=224&frameborder=0&color=98C93C]
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Exciting Enhancements to Naiku
Read MoreWe have added question-authoring enhancements to Naiku. Today, I wanted to highlight some of those new features. Rich Text Formatting We’ve added a rich text editor. Now you can add many of the common formatting features that you are probably used to with many word processing applications. For example, you can bold, italicize, choose the […]
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Students Using Naiku
Read MoreWe took a trip out to Dr. Todd Beach’s classroom to check-in and see how it is going using Naiku. Adisack does a nice job with the voice-over, don’t you think? The student feedback was fantastic – we’ve already planned to add a few features to the product based on their requests. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/20383163 w=398&h=224&frameborder=0&color=98C93C] […]