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Download full textWildemuth, Barbara M. – 1984
Five alternatives to standardized testing of student achievement are described in this brief overview. The first, criterion-referenced tests, are designed to evaluate the accomplishment of specifically stated instructional objectives. Student performance is judged on the basis of the objectives, rather than in comparison to other students taking…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Alternative Assessment, Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods
Rudman, Herbert C. – 1989
This digest discusses the integration of teaching and testing. The use of tests as instructional tools and administrative tools is discussed as well as teacher and administrator attitudes toward testing and teacher competency in interpreting test results. The term "tests" covers standardized tests of achievement and aptitude, less formal…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, School Administration
Rudner, Lawrence M.; Dorko, Kathryn – 1988
An annotated list of 11 books, guides, and online information retrieval systems that describe available standardized aptitude and achievement tests, test reviews, databases, and other sources of testing information is provided. The list is designed to help in the identification of useful standardized tests. (TJH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Books
Crosby-Muilenburg, Corryn – 1989
This digest lists guides to non-commercial tests and compilations of such tests to help identify potentially useful non-commercial tests and assessment instruments to measure special characteristics of students. Reliability and validity information is frequently available. The guides reviewed include: (1) "Measures for Psychological…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, Psychological Testing, Reference Materials
Hogan, Thomas P. – 1985
This ERIC Digest discusses implications derived from the final report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk." The first implication is a motivational one for measurement specialists: it is an ego-booster. The report is replete with results yielded from various testing programs, the fruit of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Objectives
Tippeconnic, John W., III – 2003
This digest focuses on academic testing and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students. Ideally, test results should be used to improve student learning. Proponents of high-stakes testing say it is needed to measure student achievement and school quality and to hold students and teachers accountable. High-stakes testing is also used to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, American Indian Education, American Indian Students
Ascher, Carol – 1990
Performance-based assessment has the potential to support a richer curriculum and more accurately assess the skills of low-income minority students than standardized tests. Performance-based assessment has the following advantages: (1) it allows a wide range of expression; (2) it permits assessment of learning in a natural context while students…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
