| Popis: |
External assessment began as an imposed activity to provide quality control for a process. This gatekeeping role has a norm-referenced focus. A second role, ensuring accountability, emerged to judge the quality of education, an activity that has remained essentially norm-referenced. A third role, instructional diagnosis, is a recent phenomenon driven by the need to improve education and to provide educational, not political, justification. Traced from a measurement perspective, two requirements must be met for external assessment to yield instructionally diagnostic information: a reconceptualization of reliability, and development of more detailed and facilitative mechanisms for test scoring and interpretation. L’evaluation externe peut jouer plusieurs roles : un role de garde barriere com- portant une approche normative; un role relie au principe de redevabilite jugeant de la qualite de l’education en termes politiques; un role de diagnostic pedagogique repondant au besoin d’ameliorer l’education du point de vue de l’apprenant. Dans chacun de ces cas, deux exigences doivent etre remplies pour que l’evaluation externe fournisse de l’information diagnostique sur le plan pedagogique : une reconceptualisation de la notion de fiabilite et l’elaboration de mecanismes plus detailles et utiles pour la correction des tests et l’interpretation des resultats. |
