Louis DiBello

Formative use of diagnostic classroom assessments can be one of the most powerful ways to improve student achievement. These assessments have the potential to provide critical information to students and teachers about whether students understand the targeted concepts, and if not, what problematic or partial understandings are present instead. Facet-based assessments are one innovative approach to help teachers diagnose students' science understanding. A facet is the use of one or more piece...

Progress toward improving the quality of mathematics teaching and learning has been slow despite the introduction of standards-based curricula, such as Everyday Mathematics, and efforts to support teachers' implementation of reform-based classroom practices. Embedded assessments are considered to be a key element of reform-based curricula with the goal of supporting more effective instructional practices such as making students' thinking visible and providing opportunities for feedback. Howe...

This project will modify an existing student profile scoring method for use with NAEP data. The profile scoring system will allow results to be reported in terms of mastery and non-mastery of the skills represented in each of the four achievement levels. Profile scores may make it possible to determine the diagnostic strength of particular aspects of the NAEP framework categories, and they may provide a foundation for evaluating similarities and differences between NAEP and the state accountabil