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McLane, Kathleen – National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, 2008
This article introduces the concept of progress monitoring to parents, highlighting its goal of providing parents and teachers information that can help children learn more and learn faster, and to help teachers teach more effectively and make better decisions about the type of instruction that will work best with each student.
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Performance Based Assessment, Criterion Referenced Tests
Johnson, Nancy J. – 1993
Predicated on a belief that assessment and evaluation should be vital, planned aspects of the curriculum, this booklet describes classroom-based assessment that serves to inform teachers, students, and parents of the learner's growth as well as to suggest next-step instructional goals. Procedures developed by classroom teachers which integrate…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Sweet, David; Zimmermann, Jacquelyn, Ed. – 1993
Portfolios, collections of student work representing a selection of performance, are being used in classrooms today in the tradition of the visual and performing arts in which they serve to showcase a student's best pieces and the student's evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the pieces. Portfolios are useful as a support to new…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Maryland School Performance, Product, and Service Development Office. – 1993
This publication presents performance data and the concomitant standards of performance that form the basis of school improvement in Maryland. The Data-Based Areas section of this report describes essential tools for measuring how well schools, school systems, and the state are preparing every student for higher education and successful careers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Rate, Educational Attainment