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Download full textHerman, Joan L.; Osmundson, Ellen; Dietel, Ronald – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002) has produced an explosion of interest in the use of assessment to measure and improve student learning. Initially focused on annual state tests, educators quickly learned that results came too little and too late to identify students who were falling behind. At the same time, evidence from the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Formative Evaluation, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
Herman, Joan L.; Osmundson, Ellen; Dietel, Ronald – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2010
This report describes the purposes of benchmark assessments and provides recommendations for selecting and using benchmark assessments--addressing validity, alignment, reliability, fairness and bias and accessibility, instructional sensitivity, utility, and reporting issues. We also present recommendations on building capacity to support schools'…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Herman, Joan L.; Kim, Jinok; Abedi, Jamal; Leon, Seth; Griffin, Noelle; Bachman, Patina L.; Chang, Sandy M.; Farnsworth, Tim; Jung, Hyekyung; Nollner, Julie; Shin, Hye Won – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
This research project addresses the validity of assessments used to measure the performance of English language learners (ELLs), such as those mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002). The goals of the research are to help educators understand and improve ELL performance by investigating the validity of their current…
Descriptors: Validity, Second Language Learning, Researchers, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedHerman, Joan L.; Klein, Davina C. D.; Abedi, Jamal – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2000
Explores methods of assessing opportunity to learn (OTL) and presents data collected as part of a pilot study of an eighth-grade statewide mathematics assessment to explore issues of validity. Investigates the integrity of various dimensions thought to constitute OTL, analyzes the relationships among teachers' and students' self-reports, and draws…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Junior High School Students
Vendlinski, Terry P.; Nagashima, Sam; Herman, Joan L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
Current educational policy highlights the important role that assessment can play in improving education. State standards and the assessments that are aligned with them establish targets for learning and promote school accountability for helping all students succeed; at the same time, feedback from assessment results is expected to provide …
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Federal Legislation, State Standards, Educational Improvement
Herman, Joan L. – 1986
A model for a comprehensive, multi-purpose, multi-user evaluation system is presented to facilitate educational decision making and to support school improvement and renewal. The model is school district-based but oriented to meet state-, school-, and classroom-level needs as well. The model emphasizes the usefulness of common or compatible…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Policy, Databases, Decision Making
