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Download full textZavitkovsky, Paul – Center for Urban Education Leadership, 2022
After the passage of "No Child Left Behind," and especially after Obama-era Race to the Top initiatives, rising accountability for improved achievement and widespread dissatisfaction with the instructional value of statewide test reports led many school districts to purchase computer-adaptive "interim" testing systems. A common…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Outsourcing, Outcomes of Education, Equal Education
Direct linkEdmund W. Gordon; Michael V. McGill; Deanna Iceman Sands; Kelley M. Kalinich; James W. Pellegrino; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present alternative views on the theory and practice of "formative assessment" (FA), or assessment to support teaching and learning in classrooms, with the purpose of highlighting its value in education and informing discussions on educational assessment policy. Methodology/approach: The method…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, School Districts, Educational Policy
Briggs, Derek C. – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2011
There is often confusion about distinctions between growth models and value-added models. The first half of this paper attempts to dispel some of these confusions by clarifying terminology and illustrating by example how the results from a large-scale assessment can and will be used to make inferences about student growth and the value-added…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Language Usage, Measurement, Inferences
