TitleOn-line performance assessment using rating scales
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1997
AuthorsStahl, J, Shumway, R, Bergstrom, B, Fisher, A
JournalJournal of Outcomes Measurement
Volume1
Number3
Pagination173-191
Publication Languageeng
Accession Number9661720
Keywords*Outcome Assessment (Health Care), *Rehabilitation, *Software, *Task Performance and Analysis, Activities of Daily Living, Humans, Microcomputers, Psychometrics, Psychomotor Performance
Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the on-line performance assessment instrument--the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). Issues that will be addressed in the paper include: (a) the establishment of the scoring rubric and its implementation in an extended Rasch model, (b) training of raters, (c) validation of the scoring rubric and procedures for monitoring the internal consistency of raters, and (d) technological implementation of the assessment instrument in a computerized program.