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All Done with the Best of Intentions: One Kentucky High School after Six Years of State Portfolio Tests.
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Callahan, Susan – Assessing Writing, 1999
Examines the response of one high school to three of the explicit aims of the Kentucky writing portfolio assessment. Suggests limitations to the presumed validity of the assessment by revealing some of the intended and unintended consequences of the state's attempt to use the assessment to shape school writing programs, to encourage classroom…
Descriptors: High Schools, Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Program Development
KIRIS Accountability Cycle I Technical Manual. Based on the Analysis of Data from the 1991-92 through 1993-94 School Years.
Dings, Jonathan; Gong, Brian; Kingston, Neal – 1995
This technical manual provides all major existing information about the technical characteristics of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). The assessment component of the Kentucky Education Reform Act Accountability System was in use between 1991-92 and 1993-94 and was referred to as Cycle One. Two sets of test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
KIRIS Accountability Cycle 2 Technical Manual. Based on the Analysis of Data from the 1992-93 through 1995-96 School Years.
Dings, Jonathan – 1997
This technical manual provides information about the technical characteristics of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS), the assessment component of the Kentucky Education Reform Act Accountability System. The time period covered is Accountability Cycle 2, which spanned the school years 1992-93 through 1995-96. Sections of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change