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Hani Morgan – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), US reading and math scores have recently dropped. This decline is believed to be the result of the school closings that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The drop likely contributed to the increase in pressure educators are feeling to teach in a way that leads to higher test…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Testing Problems
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Colleen Fitzpatrick; Stephanie van Hover; Vonna Hemmler; Ariel Cornett – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2024
We employed qualitative research methods to examine student learning in context during a teacher's unit on 1920s-Great Depression in an 11th grade United States & Virginia History class in a standards-based setting with a high-stakes end-of-course test. We focused on four focal students (all of whom were classified as English learners at some…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, United States History, Local History
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Chinda, Bordin; Cotter, Matthew; Ebrey, Matthew; Hinkelman, Don; Lambert, Peter; Miller, Annie – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This qualitative study investigated the washback of performance-based assessment used by three English language teachers in Hokkaido, Japan, each of whom implemented their own course-specific assessments. The study employed qualitative research of an in-depth interview with 15 students and a self-reflective method from 3 teachers. Teachers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing Problems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction