Sentences with phrase «on those particular test items»

Yet even as they surfaced possible misconceptions, the new teaching strategies these data teams came up with focused on helping students perform better on those particular test items, rather than on improving instruction (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).

Not exact matches

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

Surely Michelle Rhee must know that if children are drilled on a particular test, that test can not be used to measure what they have learned, except perhaps the test items themselves.

The technical explanation, in part, is that test designers try to build questions that avoid Differential Item Functioning (DIF)- items in which students from different groups (commonly gender or ethnicity) with the same underlying achievement levels have a different probability of giving a certain response on that particular iItem Functioning (DIF)- items in which students from different groups (commonly gender or ethnicity) with the same underlying achievement levels have a different probability of giving a certain response on that particular itemitem.

The example suggested that if students do not know the meaning of a particular word in a test item, they would be taught to replace it with an «X» and focus instead on grasping the logic of the question phrasing that will give them a better chance of selecting the correct answer.