Performance‐Based Assessment: Implications of Task Specificity

1 March 1994

journal article
Published by Wiley in Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Vol. 13 (1) , 5-8
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3992.1994.tb00778.x

Abstract

How generalizable are the scores from performance‐based assessments? How can we best increase the gener‐alizability of results? What level of generalizability is needed for different testing purposes?

Keywords

PERFORMANCE
BASED ASSESSMENTS
GENERALIZABILITY
GENER
TESTING PURPOSES
TASK SPECIFICITY
IMPLICATIONS OF TASK
DIFFERENT TESTING

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