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Developing and Measuring Higher Order Skills: Models for State Performance Assessment Systems. Research Brief
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Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
After passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, states assumed greater responsibility for designing their own accountability and assessment systems. ESSA requires states to measure "higher order thinking skills and understanding" and encourages the use of open-ended performance assessments, which are essential for…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Portfolios (Background Materials), Task Analysis
Developing and Measuring Higher Order Skills: Models for State Performance Assessment Systems
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Darling-Hammond, Linda – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) opened up new possibilities for how student and school success are defined and supported in American public education. States have greater responsibility for designing and building their assessment and accountability systems. These new opportunities to develop performance assessments are critically important…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Portfolios (Background Materials), Task Analysis
Design Document for 12th Grade NAEP Preparedness Research Judgmental Standard Setting Studies: Setting Standards on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in Reading and Mathematics for 12th Grade Preparedness
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National Assessment Governing Board, 2010
The National Assessment Governing Board adopted a Program of Preparedness Research in March 2009. Several categories of research studies were recommended to produce results for reporting 12th grade preparedness for the 2009 grade 12 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics. The categories included content…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Readiness, Grade 12, Reading Achievement
Research in Writing Assessment.
Coffman, William E. – 1988
Five papers on the assessment of writing ability presented at the Division D meeting are critiqued. It is suggested that it is not possible to conclude--as has Larson in his study of grades 4, 6, and 8--that National Assessment of Educational Progress results do not give evidence of growth in writing ability. Dovell and Buhr, examining approaches…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, Evaluative Thinking
The Test Score Decline: Meaning and Issues.
Lipsitz, Lawrence, Ed. – 1977
This collection of original papers, first published in the June and July, 1976 issues of Educational Technology Magazine, was prompted by the enormous public outcry which greeted the general public realization that achievement and college aptitude test scores were continuing in recent months and years the steady erosion which began in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends
Sex Differences in Test Performance: A Survey of the Literature. College Board Report No. 89-3.
Wilder, Gita Z.; Powell, Kristin – 1989
A review of the significant research on gender differences in test performance is provided, including studies documenting these differences and theories forwarded for the factors related to differential test performance. Research covered addresses undergraduate admissions tests, graduate and professional school admission tests, validity studies,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Biological Influences, College Entrance Examinations