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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; McCoy, Jan D.; Twyman, Todd; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
Discussion of problems in documenting student performance and progress focuses on middle-secondary subject matter, the state standards that are fundamental to most large-scale assessment systems, and curriculum text structures that limit the type of learning that can be documented. It suggests critical thinking measures as an alternative procedure…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Based Assessment, Educational Assessment

Helwig, Robert; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2002
Four alternate versions of a 15-item general outcome measure (GOM) of mathematics conceptual understanding and applications were developed and administered to 117 eighth-graders. Results were correlated with scores on state multiple-choice mathematics achievement tests. Correlations ranged from .81 to .87 with no significant differences, offering…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Grade 8, Learning Disabilities