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Download full textMurray, Stephen L. – 1986
This paper focuses specifically on paper and pencil testing as a tool contributing to a quality teaching force. Information is presented for those who have responsibility or interest in state level policies for using such tests to promote educational quality. Using institutional stages of a teacher's career as an organizing scheme for test use,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Policy Formation
Siskind, Theresa G. – Diagnostique, 1993
This survey on modifications allowed for students with disabilities by 30 states in statewide criterion-referenced testing programs found no universal agreement about modifications. Accommodations in Test Setting and Test Scheduling were more frequently allowed than revisions in Test Directions or Test Format. Assistance devices and accommodations…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Criterion Referenced Tests, Disabilities, Standardized Tests
Cizek, Gregory J. – Fordham Report, 1998
This booklet provides parents, teachers, administrators, and policymakers with information about achievement testing which is relevant to their needs. The first section presents an overview of the current market for standardized achievement tests and provides key definitions, distinctions between ability and achievement testing, comparisons of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Reflections on Practical Assessment in GCSE 2: Implementation and Implications of GCSE Requirements.
Peer reviewedCarrick, Tessa – Journal of Biological Education, 1987
Aspects of practical assessment such as question design and management of the assessment are discussed. Reference is made to some of the problems and to the possibilities for innovation as a result of implementing practical assessment of the kind required by the General Certificate of Secondary Education examining groups. (CW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Certification, Foreign Countries, Science Education
Small, Larry – 1988
The goal of this monograph is to explain the evaluation program designed by Schaumburg Community Consolidated District 54, Schaumberg, Illinois. It discusses the process used in the development of the model, the product, the implication for classroom teachers and the effects of using an evaluation to assess science process skills. The process…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Evaluation
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 1998
The Delaware Student Testing Program ties student achievement to the state's content standards that define the knowledge and skills Delaware students need to succeed beyond high school. This report explains the testing program and how to interpret it for administrators and boards of education. Each school receives English language and mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Administrators
