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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"performance-based assessment"”.
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Improving Second Language Learning Through Performance-Based Assessment Practices
… has become the benchmark measure for student assessment and school accountability in the United States. Multilingual learners are a vulnerable population with more testing and accountability requirements than mainstream students. Not only are they required to learn a second language, but they …
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An investigation of performance-based assessment in science in Saudi primary schools
This study was undertaken to develop a performance-based assessment approach in science learning and to investigate its effects on students' achievement and attitudes toward science as well as the readiness of Saudi primary schools in relation to its implementation. The approach links the …
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"Measuring ""To Think Mathematically"": Cognitive Characterization of Achievement Levels in Performance-Based Assessment"
The reasoning process should be weighed more than the final answer in PBA. One level of a holistic score includes a variety of achievement levels, such as good conceptual knowledge with poor procedural knowledge, good procedural knowledge with poor conceptual knowledge, or good communicating skills …
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Optimizing resilience : performance based assessment of retrofits for wood-frame housing in San Francisco
… prevent building collapse. This study conducts a performance based seismic assessment to an eight-unit, four-story woodframe structure typical in San Francisco to appraise the building's response to incremental seismic mitigation strategies. The goal of the research is to optimize retrofit based …
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The Preschool Kitchen Task Assessment (PKTA): Assessing Validity of a Performance-based Assessment of Executive Function
… therapy practice. However, there is a lack of performance-based assessments of EF in preschool-aged children. This study sought to establish preliminary criterion-related validity of the Preschool Kitchen Task Assessment (PKTA), a test of EF in preschoolers developed by Christine Berg, Ph.D., …
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Performance-Based Assessment within a Balanced Literacy Framework: An Analysis of Teacher Perceptions and Implementation in Elementary Classrooms
… school district in Georgia regarding the use of performance-based assessment strategies within an all encompassing balanced literacy framework for instruction. Participants were surveyed on their use of performance-based assessment strategies, and both quantitative and qualitative data were …
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Experiential e-learning for engagement, belonging and social change: a study on the use of social justice pedagogy in entrepreneurial business literacy for high school students in Mexico.
… in the curriculum design as a collaborative performance-based assessment model for Mexican youth. The research design employed a pragmatist mixed methods approach informed by Participatory Action Research using short-term and digital ethnographic principles. The researcher’s emancipatory …
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Predicting Performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment Using the Developmental Reading Assessment and the 4Sight Predictive Benchmark Assessment
… relationship between the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA), the 4Sight Reading Benchmark Assessment (4Sight), and the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) reading assessment for fifth grade students in one urban school district in Pennsylvania. A goal was to determine how well …
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Effortful Control, Interpretation Biases, and Child Anxiety Symptom Severity in a Sample of Children with Anxiety Disorders
… anxiety, and interpretation biases; a performance-based assessment of interpretation biases; and a parent-child interaction task. Results: Multiple mediator models indicated a significant indirect effect of effortful control (completely standardized point estimate = -.24, SE = .06, BC …
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Public School Arts Classes and Academic Achievement: A Study of the Relationship Between Middle School Outcome Measures and the Extent to Which Students Engage In Art Courses
… real life learning experiences, modeling performance-based assessment, encouraging student-teacher authored instruction and integrated curriculum, activating communications centers of the brain, promoting creativity, increasing motivation, and inspiring passion. Yet under the No Child Left …
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The Effect of Content, Style, and Color of Picture Prompts on Narrative Writing: An Analysis of Fifth and Eighth Grade Students' Writing
Current assessment practices for writing are moving away from the traditional objective test and towards performance-based assessment. The use of picture prompts to elicit writing samples is a common practice but it adds a level of complexity to the writing process. Writing tasks which use pictures …
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A STUDY TO IDENTIFY FACTORS OF RATER COGNITION FROM DIFFERENT RATER PERSPECTIVES DURING PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENTS
Performance-based assessments (PBA) are used in healthcare education and for the evaluation of performance in professional practice. In nursing, PBAs are used with observation to assess competency of students and professionals. Rating using a PBA is highly complex, and the literature shows high …
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An investigation into the potential of advanced sensor technology to support the maintenance of pipeline distribution systems
… and communication technology to improve the performance, in terms of sustainability, of the existing built environment and infrastructure. Traditionally, built-environment maintenance is a capital-cost-driven activity that relies either upon the subjective assessment of a built environment …
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Issues and challenges in current generalizability theory applications in rated measurement
… prevails include, but are not limited to, performance-based assessments, standard settings, and content validation studies. Inherent in expert rated measurement are potential systematic and random variations that can contribute to measurement errors, and thereby affect measurement …