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Policy Incentives in Canadian Large-Scale Assessment: How Policy Levers Influence Teacher Decisions about Instructional Change
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Copp, Derek T. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Large-scale assessment (LSA) is a tool used by education authorities for several purposes, including the promotion of teacher-based instructional change. In Canada, all 10 provinces engage in large-scale testing across several grade levels and subjects, and also have the common expectation that the results data will be used to improve instruction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incentives, Educational Policy, Mixed Methods Research
Participation in International Large-Scale Assessments from a US Perspective
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Plisko, Valena White – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) play a distinct role in the United States' decentralized federal education system. Separate from national and state assessments, they offer an external, objective measure for the United States to assess student performance comparatively with other countries and over time. The US engagement in ILSAs…
Descriptors: International Studies, Group Testing, Comparative Education, Comparative Testing
Measurement, Sampling, and Equating Errors in Large-Scale Assessments
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Wu, Margaret – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2010
In large-scale assessments, such as state-wide testing programs, national sample-based assessments, and international comparative studies, there are many steps involved in the measurement and reporting of student achievement. There are always sources of inaccuracies in each of the steps. It is of interest to identify the source and magnitude of…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Educational Assessment, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
No Child Left Behind and Tutoring in Reading and Mathematics: Impact of Supplemental Educational Services on Large Scale Assessment
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Munoz, Marco A.; Chang, Florence; Ross, Steven M. – Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (NJ1), 2011
The present quantitative study evaluated the effects of Supplemental Educational Services (SES), a federally mandated component of No Child Left Behind, on student achievement in reading and mathematics. SES provides free tutoring outside of school to disadvantaged students who attend Title I schools in their third year of failing to achieve…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Urban Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
A Statewide Writing Assessment Model: Student Proficiency and Future Implications
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Dappen, Leon; Isernhagen, Jody; Anderson, Sue – Assessing Writing, 2008
This paper is an examination of statewide district writing achievement gain data from the Nebraska Statewide Writing Assessment system and implications for statewide assessment writing models. The writing assessment program is used to gain compliance with the United States No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB), a federal effort to influence school…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Writing Achievement
Educational Measurement. Fourth Edition. ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education
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Brennan, Robert L., Ed. – Praeger, 2006
"Educational Measurement" has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951. The importance of this fourth edition of "Educational Measurement" is to extensively update and extend the topics treated in the previous three editions. As such, the fourth edition documents progress in the field and…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Educational Assessment, Test Validity, Test Reliability