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Download full textColorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1999
In 1998 the Colorado State General Assembly passed a bill that revised the schedule for implementation of the Colorado Student Assessment Program of state assessments. During the 1998-99 school year, the state assessment was to include third-grade literacy, fourth-grade reading and writing, and seventh-grade reading and writing. The newsletters in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Lissitz, Robert W., Ed.; Schafer, William D., Ed. – 2002
This book originated from a conference arranged to honor the professional contributions of William D. Schafer on his retirement. In recognition of his interest in the subject, each chapter is an effort by one or more professionals to describe what they think the future of assessment should be. The chapters are: (1) What Will Teachers Know about…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Bank, Adrianne; Williams, Richard C. – 1983
The Center for the Study of Evaluation Systems Project focuses on assessing the costs and impacts of managing testing, evaluation, and instructional (T/E/I) systems through a collection of nine papers: (1) "School District Evaluation Offices: Are They Worth the Money?," by Richard C. Williams and Pam McGranahan; (2) "How Two…
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Testing
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1996
The news release and other documents in this packet report information about the nation's 1996 high school graduates who took the American College Testing Program (ACT) Assessment. The packet contains, in addition to the news release, the 1996 Summary Report of national data, "The High School Profile Report, Normative Data: A Description of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
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
