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Download full textBond, Linda A. – 1996
Tests can be categorized into two major groups: norm-referenced tests (NRTs) and criterion-referenced tests (CRTs). NRTs are designed to highlight achievement differences between and among students to produce a dependable rank order of students across a continuum of achievement from high achievers to low achievers. With NRTs, a representative…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, National Norms
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, Washington, DC. – 1995
The House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to look at school testing as it exists, to estimate its extent and cost, and to assess how a new national test might affect those factors. GAO gathered information from a variety of sources, including a 1991 survey with replies from 48 states…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Choice Tests, National Competency Tests
