Assessing Student Performance

book : J.E. Wall & G.R. Walz (Ed.), Measuring up: Assessment issues for teachers, counselors, and administrators. Greensboro, NC: CAPS Press. (ED480379) http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/23/51/ca.pdf  - this is the website you can read the book.

Read the following two chapters:
Chapter 3: Guidelines For Selecting Appropriate Tests
Chapter 25: Applications Of Professional Ethics In Educational Assessment

In a statement, summarize your views on the following questions, using examples to illustrate:

1. How can you use data from surveys, interviews, or questionnaires in a research project?
2. How can you use immediate student evaluation data (course test scores, etc.) in a research project?
3. How can you use student evaluation data from standardized tests in a research project?
4. Describe your process for developing a survey. How do you go about it?
5. How can a Likert scale be useful in collecting responses on questionnaires or surveys?
6. What concerns should you have about reliability and validity of instruments?
7. What is inter-rater reliability, and how might it concern your research process?