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Download full textBaker, Eva L.; And Others – 1987
Guidelines for evaluating responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) for state-level educational assessment programs are presented. The guidelines articulate key choice points, options, and considerations by state (and district) testing directors as they solicit services for large-scale assessment from commercial testing companies. Focus is on…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Contracts, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
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
Sinnot, Judith A., Ed.; And Others – Gittinger Assessment Center Journal, 1986
The Gittinger Assessment Center (GAC) at Hocking Technical College is a psychological service unit whose thrust is to provide educational testing, individual counseling, and tutorial assistance to enhance the learning process. Students' academic, personal, and social needs are identified through an individualized assessment process, which serves…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Testing, Personality Assessment
Information Update, 1989
This issue of a quarterly newsletter focuses on alternative assessment methods in adult basic education. It is occasioned, as explained in the opening editorial, by the announcement of the requirement for use of the 1987 edition of the Tests of Adult Basic Education for pre- and posttesting of basic education students in New York City, beginning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Alternative Assessment
Hiscox, Michael D.; And Others – 1983
A series of reports informs educators and parents about the Alaska Statewide Assessment, a program designed to measure student performance in mathematics and reading. The first report covers the 1981 assessment, proposed planning and changes in the program for 1983, evaluation plans, and test scores. Report 2 describes the progress of score…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Evaluation Methods, Grade 4
Peer reviewedDoty, Charles R., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
The essays in this collection attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the process of occupational curriculum development. The collection includes: (1) "Federal Government Involvement in Technical Curriculum Development," by John G. Nealon; (2) "The Challenge of Curriculum Development: From Idea to Reality," by Judith F. Raulf and Marilyn C.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Articulation (Education), Certification, Community Colleges
Bray, Dorothy, Ed.; Belcher, Marcia J., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Three aspects of student assessment are addressed in this collection of essays: accountability issues and the political tensions that they reflect; assessment practices, the use and misuse of testing, and emerging directions; and the impact of assessment. The collection includes: (1) "Expansion, Quality, and Testing in American…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
Crawford, A. E., II – ESS Reports, 1991
The report "UNO Act Class Profile, 1989-90" in the first of two serial issues presents salient parts of data from "The Class Profile Report" of the American College Testing (ACT) Corporation, which provides detailed information concerning the academic past of 1,359 freshmen entering the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, English
Carter, Edith H., Ed. – Community College Journal for Research and Planning, 1988
Designed as a forum for the exchange of information among members of the National Council for Research and Planning (NCRP), this journal provides articles on various aspects of community college research, management, and planning. The two issues of volume 6 contain the following articles: (1) "The President's Forum: What Have We Accomplished?" by…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Educational Trends
