Leveraging Background Knowledge Measures to Predict Performance in Scenario-Based Assessments

• In Event: Background Questions and Surveys

Abstract

Personalization of tasks based on students’ funds of knowledge, can be a useful method to foster their engagement and learning. This study examined multiple approaches to measure students’ background knowledge related to a scenario-based assessment topic and the degree to which different measures predicted performance on the assessment.

Authors

• Jesse R. Sparks, EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

• Teresa Ober, ETS

• Blair Lehman, Brighter Research

• Diego Zapata-Rivera, EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE