Performance and Portfolio Assessment (1985-1995): Subject Heading Index

John M. Norris


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Performance assessment theory: The general education literature

Performance assessment theory: The L2 literature

Performance assessment development and research: Sources for L2 test development

Portfolio assessment theory: The general education literature

Portfolio assessment theory: The L2 literature

Portfolio assessment development and implementation

Approaches to validity

References and related sources

Performance assessment theory: The general education literature

Aschbacher, P. A. (1991). Performance assessment: State activity, interest, and concerns.
Cizek, G. J. (1991). Confusion effusion: A rejoinder to Wiggins.
Linn, R., Baker, E. L., & Dunbar, S. (1991). Complex, performance-based assessment: Expectations and validation criteria.
Linn, R., & Burton, E. (1994). Performance-based assessment: Implications of task specificity.
Mehrens, W. A. (1992). Using performance assessment for accountability purposes.
Miller, M. D., & Legg, S. M. (1993). Alternative assessment in a high-stakes environment.
Moss, P. A. (1992). Shifting conceptions of validity in educational measurement: Implications for performance assessment.
Quellmalz, E. S., (1991). Developing criteria for performance assessments: The missing link.
Stiggins, R. J. (1988). Revitalizing classroom assessment: The highest instructional priority.
Wiggins, G. (1989). A true test: Toward more authentic and equitable assessment.
Wiggins, G. (1991). A response to Cizek.
Wolf, D., Bixby, J., Glenn, J. III, & Gardner, H. (1991). To use their minds well: Investigating new forms of student assessment.

Performance assessment theory: The L2 literature

Allaei, S. K., & Connor, U. (1991). Using performative assessment instruments with ESL student writers.
Carroll, B. J. (1985). Second language performance testing for university and professional contexts.
Jones, R. L. (1985). Second language performance testing: An overview.
McNamara, T. F. (1995). Modeling performance: Opening Pandora's box.
Shohamy, E. (1995). Performance assessment in language testing.

Performance assessment development and research: Sources for L2 test development

Bailey, K. M. (1985). If I had known then what I know now: Performance testing of foreign teaching assistants.
Clark, J. L. D., & Grognet, A. G. (1985). Development and validation of a performance-based test of ESL "survival skills."
Dunbar, S. B., Koretz, D. M., & Hoover, H. D. (1991). Quality control in the development and use of performance assessments.
McNamara, T. F. (1990). Item response theory and the validation of an ESP test for health professionals.
Mohan, B., & Low, M. (1995). Collaborative teacher assessment of ESL writers: Conceptual and practical issues.
Paltridge, B. (1992). EAP placement testing: An integrated approach.
Pollitt, A., & Hutchinson, C. (1987). Calibrating graded assessments: Rasch partial credit analysis of performance in writing.
Shohamy, E. (1992). Beyond proficiency testing: A diagnostic feedback testing model for assessing foreign language learning.
Short, D. J. (1993). Assessing integrated language and content instruction.
Stiggins, R. J. (1987). Design and development of performance assessments.
Tedick, D. J. (1990). ESL writing assessment: Subject-matter knowledge and its impact on performance.
Wesche, M. B. (1987). Second language performance testing: The Ontario Test of ESL as an example.

Portfolio assessment theory: The general education literature

Arter, J. A., & Spandel, V. (1992). Using portfolios of student work in instruction and assessment.
Brandt, R. (1987). On assessment in the arts: A conversation with Howard Gardner.
Camp, R. (1993). The place of portfolios in our changing views of writing assessment.
Chittenden, E. (1991). Authentic assessment, evaluation, and documentation of student performance.
Jongsma, K. S. (1989). Portfolio assessment.
LeMahieu, F. G., Eresh, J. T., & Wallace, R. C. Jr. (1992). Using student portfolios for a public accounting.
Moss, P. A., Beck, J. S., Ebbs, C., Matson, B., Muchmore, J., Steele, D., Taylor, C., & Herter, R. (1992). Portfolios, accountability and an interpretive approach to validity.
Paulson, F. L., Paulson, P. R., & Meyer, C. A. (1991). What makes a portfolio a portfolio?
Sommers, J. (1991). Bringing practice in line with theory.
Valencia, S. (1990). A portfolio approach to classroom assessment: The whys, whats, and hows.
Valencia, S. W., & Calfee, R. (1991). The development and use of literacy portfolios for students, classes, and teachers.
Wolf, D. P. (1989). Portfolio assessment: Sampling student work.
Zessoules, R., & Gardner, H. (1991). Authentic assessment: Beyond the buzzword and into the classroom. In Perrone, V. (Ed.).

Portfolio assessment theory: The L2 literature

Huerta-Macías, A. (1995). Alternative assessment: Responses to commonly asked questions.
Gottlieb, M. (1995). Nurturing student learning through portfolios. TESOL Journal, 5(1), 12-14.
McNamara, M. J., & Deane, D. (1995). Self-assessment activities: Toward autonomy in language learning.

Portfolio assessment development and implementation

Elbow, P., & Belanoff, P. (1991). State University of New York at Stony Brook portfolio-based evaluation program.
Genesee, F., & Upshur, J. (in press). Chapter 6: Portfolios and conferences.
Holt, D., & Baker, N. W. (1991). Portfolios as a follow-up option in a proficiency-testing program.
McClelland, C. (1991). Portfolios: Solution to a problem.
Shaklee, B. D., & Viechnicki, K. J. (1995). A qualitative approach to portfolios: The early assessment for exceptional potential model.
Smit, D., Kolonosky, P., & Seltzer, K. (1991). Implementing a portfolio system.

Approaches to validity

Cherryholmes, C. H. (1988). Construct validity and the discourses of research.
Cronbach, L. J. (1988). Five perspectives on validity argument.
Frederiksen, J. R., & Collins, A. (1989). A systems approach to educational testing.
Messick, S. (1989). Meaning and values in test validation: The science and ethics of assessment.
Messick, S. (1994). The interplay of evidence and consequences in the validation of performance assessments.
Mishler, E. G. (1990). Validation in inquiry-guided research: The role of exemplars in narrative studies.
Moss, P. A. (1994). Can there be validity without reliability?
Norris, S. P. (1989). Can we test validly for critical thinking?

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