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Tashlik, Phyllis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
The New York Performance Standards Consortium includes urban public high schools that have successfully used a performance-based assessment option. Instead of exit exams, student assessments are based on specific performance-based assessment tasks. These schools have shown that it is possible to use qualitative data to make substantive decisions…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Qualitative Research, Statistical Data
Haycock, Kati, Ed.; Barth, Patte, Ed.; Mitchell, Ruth, Ed.; Wilkins, Amy, Ed. – Thinking K-16, 1999
This issue discusses changes in standards, assessments, and graduation requirements needed in K-12 and higher education, examining whether high school graduates are adequately prepared to enter college without remediation. Currently, about three-quarters of high school graduates will attend college. Among students who take the recommended number…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Admission, College Bound Students, Elementary Secondary Education