Sentences with phrase «based assessment items»

Probing students» ideas about models using standards - based assessment items.

Not exact matches

Using distractor - driven standards - based multiple - choice assessments and Rasch modeling to investigate hierarchies of chemistry misconceptions and detect structural problems with individual items.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Westerberg: Time should be provided for teachers to get together at the course or department level on a regular basis to identify big - picture course learning goals, rubrics, or scoring guides that delineate expected student performance standards; that is, what good work looks like for each goal, and common assessment items or tasks that evaluate student performance vis — vis key elements of each rubric.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

Based on the checklists used by KS2 writing moderators, your Year 6 children can self - assess as they write, to all the items from the assessment cr...

Research efforts are aimed, for example, at ensuring bias - free results, validity of technology - enhanced items, stability of measuring student growth across time, developing testing accommodations for students with special needs, software for computer - based testing, and technical support and scoring for local standards - based assessments in Iowa and the nation.

Based on individual student performance during the assessment, DOMA adjusts in difficulty, item selection, and construct selection.

For this question, items were related to the CEI Heart Centered 21st Century Rubric, a research - based interactive matrix and evaluation system that can be used for visioning, planning, self - assessment, evaluation, and monitoring).

Explore NAEP computer - based assessments, including one of our new technology and engineering literacy (TEL) items.

When we began to prepare assessments based on the standards, teachers were heavily involved in the development of assessment items.

The fourth - eight grade state ELA Tests contain multiple - choice questions based on brief reading passages and performance assessment items.

We find that the estimated gaps are strongly associated with the proportions of the test scores based on multiple - choice and constructed - response questions on state accountability tests, even when controlling for gender achievement gaps as measured by the NAEP or NWEA MAP assessments, which have the same item format across states.

Empower teachers with an additional tool to help prepare students for SBAC and PARCC computer - based tests with access to assessments that utilize technology - enhanced items covering both lower and higher level thinking skills to increase the likelihood that students will become better prepared and better problem solvers.

It breaks new ground in universal design for assessment, learning map development, instructionally embedded assessment, and technology - based, instructionally relevant item types.

The samples include nearly 50 assessment items and performance tasks, including examples of innovative, technology - enhanced items that take advantage of computer - based administration to assess a deeper understanding of content and skills than would otherwise be possible with traditional item types.

In Canada we have moved to computer based assessments and I believe such problems would be identified in the field testing of items.

You can search in the dashboard for standards - based formative assessments based on topics and decide if you want to use the items in an exisiting assessment for your own new assessment

To do this, each test item is based on overall content claims and assessment targets.

Simulation - based Evaluation of the 2016 - 2017 Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments: General and Accommodated Item Pools

These assessments, which include item prompts based on

Performance based items are finding their way into national assessment systems.

Practice tests for grade levels 3 - 11 for both the Performance - Based and End - of - Year components of the assessment are available online for you to use to familiarize yourself with the kinds of items and format used for the ELA / Literacy PARCC assessment.

In summary, «rating» a pet food for nutritional or biological value based on the first items in ingredient list on the label is not a valid tool for assessment.

Actual Cash Value — If you choose a policy that will pay out based on the cash value of the policy, the insurance company will base its assessment of the claim on how much your clothing, furniture, household items, jewelry and electronics are worth now.

The assessment is entirely strength - based, meaning that the items query positive behaviours (e.g., get along with others) rather than maladaptive ones (e.g., annoy others).

Once items are donated, the Heartland Family Service Homeless Street Outreach staff distribute the products to women in need as part of the assessment and case management services they provide on an ongoing basis.

Based on my assessment of these items, [Client Name] has been approved for a [Type of Home Loan] to purchase the subject property at the offer price of [$ $ $, 000] and terms listed in the purchase contract.