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Graves, Donald H. – 2002
This collection of essays focuses on educational testing, showing how testing encroaches on teacher freedom and how narrow standards can actually reduce student achievement. The chapters are: (1) Testing Is Not Teaching; (2) The Freedom Factor; (3) Sharing Power with Intelligent Expectation; (4) Everyone Has a Story To Tell; (5) Lets Change the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Byrnes, Heidi, Ed.; Canale, Michael, Ed. – 1987
This volume presents papers that dicusss the need for more systematic and rigorous research programs to monitor the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines and their various implementations. "A Progress Report on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, 1982-1986" (David V. Hiple), traces the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Instructional Materials, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Download full textMalinowski, Patricia A., Ed. – 1994
This booklet, second in a series on issues in assessment, seeks to describe an initiative supported by Finger Lakes Community College (New York) to use classroom assessment techniques (CATs) in different academic areas and to present an overview of some assessment approaches that have been used in the classroom. Papers include: (1) "Enhancing…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices
Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 1990
Two papers are presented as part of the Effects on Testing Project. The first paper, "The Effects of Testing on Teaching and Learning" (Joan Herman, Shari Golan, and Jeanne Dreyfus), describes a study focusing on standardized, norm-referenced tests. A questionnaire was administered to 85 teachers (kindergarten through grade 12 levels)…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Wallace, Daisy G., Ed. – 1982
Thirteen authors present twelve articles concerning the development of basic skills programs in secondary schools. These articles focus on the following topic areas: practices and strategies for teaching basic skills in secondary classrooms; language as a factor in basic skills learning; development of skills in oral communication, reading,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Instructional Materials
Goodwin, A. Lin, Ed. – 1997
The chapters in this collection explore alternative assessment and give specific examples of successful efforts by teachers to develop their own systems of assessment. Taken together, these chapters are a rejection of the ranking and separating of students according to test scores, and an argument for richer forms of mixed alternative assessments.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
