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Direct linkAlexander, Nicola A.; Jang, Sung Tae – Educational Policy, 2020
This article explores the associations between the achievement of economically disadvantaged students and the presence of state policies that include student achievement in teacher evaluations. We looked at student achievement across all 50 states from 2007 through 2013. A simple comparison of states with and without the policy suggested that…
Descriptors: State Policy, Poverty, Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textCoulson, Andrew J. – Cato Institute, 2014
Though measures of long-term academic performance trends are valuable to education policy analysts and policymakers, they have been hard to come by at the state level, where most education policy is made. Such data are either nonexistent prior to 1990 or are unrepresentative of statewide student populations. A continuous series of state mean SAT…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Academic Achievement, Scores, Trend Analysis
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
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
National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
Since 1973, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has gathered information about student achievement in mathematics. Results of these periodic assessments, produced in print and web-based formats, provide valuable information to a wide variety of audiences. They inform citizens about the nature of students' comprehension of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, National Competency Tests, Grade 4
Crooks, Terry – 1996
A recently developed model of validation (T. J. Crooks, M. T. Kane, and A. S. Cohen, 1996) is briefly outlined. It conceptualizes assessment as divided into a chain of eight linked stages: (1) administration; (2) scoring; (3) aggregation; (4) generalization; (5) extrapolation; (6) evaluation; (7) decision; and (8) impact. The model is then used to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Models
