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Peer reviewedSolano-Flores, Guillermo; Shavelson, Richard J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1997
Conceptual, practical, and logistical issues in the development of science performance assessments (SPAs) are discussed. The conceptual framework identifies task, response format, and scoring system as components, and conceives of SPAs as tasks that attempt to recreate conditions in which scientists work. Developing SPAs is a sophisticated effort…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Science Education, Science Tests
Peer reviewedSolano-Flores, Guillermo; Jovanovic, Jasna; Shavelson, Richard J.; Bachman, Marilyn – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Describes the construction of assessments on inclines and friction from blueprints--or shells--which address the tasks of planning, hands-on, analysis, and application. Examines the reliability and validity of the assessments as well as the comparability of the assessments generated with the shell. Contains 48 references. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment, Physical Sciences
Peer reviewedShavelson, Richard J.; Solano-Flores, Guillermo; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1998
Research on developing technology for large-scale performance assessments in science is reported briefly, and a conceptual framework is presented for defining, generating, and evaluating science performance assessments. Types of tasks are discussed, and the technical qualities of performance assessments are discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Generalizability Theory, Models, Performance Based Assessment
Download full textStecher, Brian M.; Klein, Stephen P.; Solano-Flores, Guillermo; McCaffrey, Dan; Robyn, Abby; Shavelson, Richard J.; Haertel, Edward – 1998
This study investigated three factors that may contribute to the large variation in student performance across open-ended measures. These factors are content domain, format (whether the task required only pencil and paper or involved a hands-on manipulation of equipment), and level of inquiry (whether the task guided the student toward the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedStecher, Brian M.; Klein, Stephen P.; Solano-Flores, Guillermo; McCaffrey, Dan; Robyn, Abby; Shavelson, Richard J.; Haertel, Edward – Applied Measurement in Education, 2000
Studied content domain, format, and level of inquiry as factors contributing to the large variation in student performance across open-ended measures. Results for more than 1,200 eighth graders do not support the hypothesis that tasks similar in content, format, and level of inquiry would correlate higher with each other than with measures…
Descriptors: Correlation, Inquiry, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Solano-Flores, Guillermo; Shavelson, Richard J.; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Schults, Susan Elise; Wiley, Edward W.; Brown, Janet H. – 1997
In a project on the development of performance assessments in science, researchers have developed four types of assessment: comparative, component identification, classification, and observation. They have noted that assessments belonging to the same type of task can be scored for the same performance properties. This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
