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Kaase, Kris – Achieve, Inc., 2016
Across the country, education leaders are adding their voices to the call to address the issue of overtesting in schools. To assist districts in ensuring they have a coherent assessment strategy in place and only administer tests that are useful and of high quality, Achieve developed the "Student Assessment Inventory for School…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, School Districts, Testing
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Zipp, John F. – Teaching Sociology, 2007
Decades of research have documented the positive impacts of cooperative learning on student success: increased learning, retention through graduation, improved critical thinking, and intrinsic motivation. One cooperative teaching technique, however, has received relatively little attention. In the two-stage cooperative, group, or…
Descriptors: Testing, Cooperative Learning, Sociology, Student Evaluation
Salpeter, Judy – Technology & Learning, 2007
Testing students once a year, with data reported many months later, is like using an autopsy to determine how to help a patient, says Cindy Ambrose, chief academic officer of the Horry County Schools in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In Horry County and many other districts around the country, assessment that monitors vital signs on an ongoing…
Descriptors: Testing, Standardized Tests, Counties, Student Evaluation
Mertler, Craig A. – 1999
This study examined processes and techniques teachers used to ensure that their assessments were valid and reliable, noting the extent to which they engaged in these processes. A sample of 625 elementary and secondary teachers received mailed copies of the Ohio Teacher Assessment Practices Survey, which asked about steps that they followed and the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes
Policy Studies in Education, New York, NY. – 1975
The report presents the fourth evaluation of the Ohio Career Development Program for Grades K-10. Although career education programs appeared to be successful on observation, the administration of curriculum-based tests in 1973 showed no major difference between results of the program and nonprogram students. Policy studies in education developed…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Career Development, Career Education, Cognitive Tests
Shahan, Victoria; Arendt, Cynthia K.; Pohl, Deborah – 2000
This handbook is intended to help Missouri school districts develop and implement quality family and consumer sciences programs that will prepare students of all ages to be critical, ethical thinkers and successful family, career, and community leaders. The handbook begins with a bibliography listing 27 resources. The following are among the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Competence