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DISCOVER CRESST RESEARCH
Since 1966, UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evaluation and later it’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, have been bringing you research that has influenced learning across the globe.
We encourage you to explore more than 800 research reports along with hundreds of other publications and products that can help you to help others.
High quality research at no cost. Begin your discovery today.
DISCOVER CRESST RESEARCH
Since 1966, UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evaluation and later it’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, have been bringing you research that has influenced learning across the globe.
We encourage you to explore more than 800 research reports along with hundreds of other publications and products that can help you to help others.
High quality research at no cost. Begin your discovery today.
CRESST Research In Leading Journal
CRESST Co-Director Li Cai is co-author of two new measurement studies published in the prestigious journal Educational and Psychological Measurement. Both are helping to make improvements in item response theory.
Numerical Differentiation Methods for Computing Error Covariance Matrices in Item Response Theory Modeling: An Evaluation and a New Proposal by Wei Tian, Li Cai, David Thissen, and Tao Xin.
The Langer-Improved Wald Test for DIF Testing With Multiple Groups: Evaluation and Comparison to Two- Group IRT by Carol M. Woods, Li Cai, and Mian Wang.
CRESST Developing Tools to Improve Training and Assessment in the Military and Beyond
For more than a decade, CRESST has been involved in assisting the United States military with training tools such as training assessments, simulation-based formative and summative evaluations of recruit and officer performance, games, and intelligent tutoring systems to improve performance.
More recently, researchers are working on developing assessments of complex tasks for naval officers and for K-12 classrooms.
Click here to read a full article about this research in Ampersand, the online magazine of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
Assessing Teacher Knowledge Requires Multiple Measures
A new CRESST research study concludes that measuring teacher knowledge is a complex process and that "no one assessment can accurately measure it in its entirety."
Eighty-six teachers participated in this latest CRESST study that used a series of assessments to measure different levels of teacher subject matter knowledge and their knowledge in teaching algebra.
Click here to read "Validating Measures of Algebra Teacher Subject Matter Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge" by Rebecca Buschang, Greg Chung, Girlie Delacruz, and Eva Baker.
Games Can Be Effective Teaching Tools Finds New CRESST Study
The expectations that video games can be effective learning tools has often exceeded the supporting evidence. A new CRESST study indicates that learning can occur in games but more so for students with high levels of prior content knowledge.
Click here to download CRESST Report 819, "The Mediation Effect of In-Game Performance Between Prior Knowledge and Posttest Score."
Click here to download other recent CRESST reports.
CRESST To Help Veterans With Psychological Health and Wellness
Funded by the Office of Naval Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS) project is conducting a series of studies designed to evaluate tools to improve veterans’ psychological health and wellness.
Dr. Roy Stripling and his team are examining three technologies which may predict psychological status by analyzing patterns of social media and smart phone use.
Click here for information about how CRESST supports military readiness.
Improving Video Games to Support Learning
Increasingly, video games are being used to help students learn important concepts in the classroom.
In this new report, CRESST researchers Deirdre Kerr and Greg Chung use cluster analysis to pinpoint specific levels in a math computer game that can be improved in ways likely to increase learning.
Click here to download CRESST Report 816, "Using Cluster Analysis to Extend Usability Testing to Instructional Content."
Click here to download a related report by the same authors, "A Primer on Data Logging to Support Extraction of Meaningful Information from Educational Games: An Example from Save Patch."
New CRESST Report Guides Game-based Data Collection
In this latest report, CRESST researchers Greg Chung and Deirdre Kerr describe the use of data logging to support measurement of student learning through games.
Click here to download a copy of CRESST Report 814.
You may also be interested CRESST Report 798 – Improving the Way We Design Games for Learning by Examining How Popular Video Games Teach by Richard Wainess, Deirdre Kerr, and Alan Koenig.
Delacruz Presents at GSE&IS Colloquium
Senior Researcher Girlie Delaruz recently presented CRESST research at a UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies colloquium.
Click here to download Dr. Delacruz's presentation, Assessment Architectures for the Design of Technology-based Educational Environments.
Or click here to read a copy of her recent CRESST report on using games as formative assessments.
