Improving Educational Assessment By Incorporating Confidence Measure- ment, Analysis of Self-Awareness, and Performance Evaluation: The Computer-Based Alternative Assessment ™ (CBAA ™ ) Project
Jody Paul · 2007
What do you know? How sure are you? How sure should you be? Can you use what you know? The Computer-Based Alternative Assessment (CBAA) project is concerned with finding ways to answer these questions for all levels of students from elementary through university. Project activities involve developing and testing alternative means to enhance educational assessment with confidence measurement, analysis of self-awareness, and performance evaluation. The research demonstrates how computer technology can help to achieve more revealing, more accurate, and more useful assessments of students’ knowledge while maintaining the benefits of standardization. This paper describes the philosophy, architecture, design and implementation of the confidence-measurement, analysis of self-awareness, and performanceassessment components of the CBAA system.