As an attending physician working with a student for a week, you receive a form that asks you to evaluate the student's fund of knowledge, procedural skills, professionalism, interest in learning, and ...

Comparative Judgement (CJ) is a robust and innovative approach to educational assessment that prioritises the evaluation of complex work samples through pairwise comparisons. In this method, expert ...

As the scale of formal education has increased, so too has the scale of testing, to the point where it has become a giant business. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on traditional ...

Educational assessment seeks to determine how well students are learning and is an integral part of the quest for improved education. It provides feedback to students, educators, parents, policy ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

Contemporary assessment methods in the United States and other parts of the world reflect the progressive development of the education sectors’ legal and organizational environments. The systems have ...

The Ph.D. in educational statistics and research methods (ESRM) prepares students interested in statistics, psychometrics, education measurement, assessment and evaluation to develop, critically ...

RIT’s Office of Educational Effectiveness Assessment (EEA) provides strategic and operational leadership for the university’s outcomes assessment practices, collaborating with faculty, staff, and ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The scientific basis for rethinking the foundations of assessment comes from two ...