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Shayna Levitan; Nicholas Munyan-Penney – Education Trust, 2024
Statewide annual assessments are designed to help guide educational decisions by evaluating student growth and learning so resources can be equitably distributed. They also provide valuable individual results that summarize how each student is progressing against grade-level academic standards, identify additional ways their school system can…
Descriptors: Measurement, Statewide Planning, Parent School Relationship, Student School Relationship
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Nelson-Strouts, Kelley; Gillispie, W. Matthew; Bridges, Mindy – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2020
Clinical Question: When assessing a kindergarten student in the area of early reading skills, does dynamic assessment provide additional classification accuracy over and above static, standardized assessments when determining if the student exhibits a difference in early learning experiences or a true disorder? Method: Systematic Review. Study…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Utilization, Kindergarten
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di Martino, Pietro; Baccaglini-Frank, Anna – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2017
In this article, we discuss the potential of a critical approach to standardized tests and their results. In particular, we explore and discuss this potential not only for the assessment of students' mathematical competence, but also for teachers' professional development. We identify and describe two kinds of potential: the Informational…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests, Faculty Development, Evaluation Utilization
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Kane, Michael T.; Tannenbaum, Richard J. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
It is one thing to produce an innovative, construct-based assessment task; it's another to produce 10 a year that are comparable in difficulty, measure the same competencies, are free of differential item functioning, and can be scaled and equated. These challenges contributed to the failure of the performance (or authentic) assessment movement of…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Computer Assisted Testing, Courseware, Science Education
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Gorur, Radhika – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
PISA is an extremely influential large-scale assessment, and its "policy lessons" are being incorporated in a range of nations all over the world. In this paper I argue that not only is PISA influencing policies and practices, but also that "seeing like PISA" is becoming a widespread phenomenon. Globally, education…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Evaluation Utilization, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Jensen, Joseph N.; Hite, Steven J.; Hite, Julie M.; Randall, E. Vance – NASSP Bulletin, 2017
Standardized testing is an external control mechanism for K-12 public schools. Principals, nested between internal and external influences, must manage the tension created by testing's roles as both an internal improvement tool and as an external control mechanism. Five competing narratives, each shaped by author academic background, significantly…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Influences
Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This publication reviews key structures, policies and reforms in the area of achievement in the basic skills (literacy, mathematics and science). It contains fi ve indicators on policies for organising nationally standardised tests, producing national reports on achievement, using student performance data in school evaluation, addressing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Basic Skills, Annual Reports, Educational Indicators
Parveva, Teodora; Motiejunaite, Akvile; Noorani, Sogol; Riihelainen, Jari – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2016
This Eurydice report contains more than 30 detailed structural indicators, up-to-date figures, definitions, country notes and a short analysis of recent key policy developments and reforms in five areas: early childhood education and care, achievement in basic skills, early leaving from education and training, higher education and graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Educational Indicators, Early Childhood Education