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Download full textCizek, Gregory J. – Fordham Report, 1998
This booklet provides parents, teachers, administrators, and policymakers with information about achievement testing which is relevant to their needs. The first section presents an overview of the current market for standardized achievement tests and provides key definitions, distinctions between ability and achievement testing, comparisons of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Schug, Mark; Western, Richard – Wisconsin Policy Research Report, 2000
Standards-based reform activity dominated K-12 education during the 1990s, reflecting a consensus that improving learning requires state-level curricular standards and examinations. Opponents argue state-imposed standards and tests overly burden districts, degrade teaching and learning, suffer from numerous technical problems, and have failed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Design
Hiscox, Michael D.; And Others – 1983
A series of reports informs educators and parents about the Alaska Statewide Assessment, a program designed to measure student performance in mathematics and reading. The first report covers the 1981 assessment, proposed planning and changes in the program for 1983, evaluation plans, and test scores. Report 2 describes the progress of score…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Evaluation Methods, Grade 4
Crawford, A. E., II – ESS Reports, 1991
The report "UNO Act Class Profile, 1989-90" in the first of two serial issues presents salient parts of data from "The Class Profile Report" of the American College Testing (ACT) Corporation, which provides detailed information concerning the academic past of 1,359 freshmen entering the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, English
Boylan, Hunter R., Ed.; Kerstiens, Gene, Ed. – Research in Developmental Education, 1989
These four serial issues examine the effectiveness and appropriateness of a variety of assessment tests as well as their relationship to developmental education. Included are reviews of the following tests: (1) the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program, a self-scoring test of English and mathematics; (2) the Stanford Achievement Test, an…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Testing
Coley, Richard J., Ed. – ETS Policy Notes, 1990
Three articles on current research in testing are presented. The first article, "Testing in the Schools", discusses the role of testing in educational reform. In the 1980s, the overwhelming purpose of state standardized testing has become promoting accountability in areas of: (1) monitoring; (2) gatekeeping; (3) remediation; and (4)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Constructed Response, Educational Assessment
