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PUBLICATIONS

Determining the Difficulty & Discrimination Parameters of a Math Performance-Based Assessment (2022)

Determining the Difficulty & Discrimination Parameters of a Math Performance-Based Assessment (2022)

Determining the Difficulty & Discrimination Parameters of a Math Performance-Based Assessment (2022)

Performance-based assessments (PBAs) can lead to improved student achievement and motivation in math classes, but PBAs lack psychometric evidence to support their use. In this article, Gyamfi and Wren describe a study that involved a large sample of Ghanaian high school students.

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Promoting Privilege: Selecting Students for a Public Gifted School (2021)

Determining the Difficulty & Discrimination Parameters of a Math Performance-Based Assessment (2022)

Determining the Difficulty & Discrimination Parameters of a Math Performance-Based Assessment (2022)

African American, Latinx, Indigenous, and low SES students are grossly underrepresented in gifted programs across the US. In this comprehensive research-based article, Wren describes how the methods used to identify students for gifted services have perpetuated the problem.

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Mission Possible: Measuring Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (2018)

Determining the Difficulty & Discrimination Parameters of a Math Performance-Based Assessment (2022)

Mission Possible: Measuring Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (2018)

The school board of Virginia Beach City Public Schools charged district staff with "teaching and assessing those skills our students need to thrive as 21st century learners, workers, and citizens." This article provides an overview of the journey undertaken to accomplish the difficult task.  

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Using Performance Task Data to Improve Instruction (2016)

Measuring Test Anxiety in Children: Scale Development and Internal Construct Validation (2004)

Mission Possible: Measuring Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (2018)

Data-driven instructional planning is a valuable tool to optimize student learning. Abbott and Wren discuss the results of a study that examined how students' performance task responses are used to inform instruction in middle schools.

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Measuring 21st Century Skills with Performance Tasks (2015)

Measuring Test Anxiety in Children: Scale Development and Internal Construct Validation (2004)

Measuring Test Anxiety in Children: Scale Development and Internal Construct Validation (2004)

 This article tells the story of the first 5 years of the  Virginia Beach's Integrated Performance Task, a  districtwide assessment designed to measure 4th- and 7th-grade students' critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication. 

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Measuring Test Anxiety in Children: Scale Development and Internal Construct Validation (2004)

Measuring Test Anxiety in Children: Scale Development and Internal Construct Validation (2004)

Measuring Test Anxiety in Children: Scale Development and Internal Construct Validation (2004)

Increased testing of students necessitated a reliable scale to measure children's test anxiety. The article describes Wren's Children’s Test Anxiety Scale, which is still used worldwide by counselors, educators, psychologists, and researchers.

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Solving the 102-Year-Old Mystery of My Father's Paternity (2021)

 Writing for Your Genealogy Today magazine, Doug Wren describes how he used DNA test

results and genealogy site resources to identify his paternal grandfather.  (Nonfiction)

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I Think I Live Next Door to a Serial Killer (2021)

Doug has also written for Clever Magazine, "the ezine for the neglected demographic." 

This short story appears at the bottom of the titles listed under "ENCORE!"  (Fiction)

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