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Caudell, Lee Sherman – Northwest Education, 1996
Most states have expanded their statewide testing programs to include alternative educational assessments, and two (Kentucky and Maine) have completely abandoned the multiple-choice format. However, over half of states designing alternative assessments are encountering major difficulties related to the high cost of performance-based assessments,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Costs, Educational Assessment
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) and the Maryland Learning Outcomes (MLOs) on mathematics classroom instruction and assessment practices, professional development, and student learning. The data sources included questionnaires for principals, mathematics teachers, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Performance Tests
Download full textThurlow, Martha L. – 1994
This booklet examines national and state educational reform in the 1990s, noting the ways in which performance assessment is being presented as a mechanism of reform. Three reform initiatives are examined: national education goals, standards, and reform legislation. In conjunction with these reform movements, new methods of assessment are being…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Warren, Sandra Hopfengardner – 1994
As part of the educational reform movement, states and local districts have implemented outcomes-based accountability for student outcomes. Outcomes-based accountability systems are using results of both traditional assessments, such as norm-referenced tests, and authentic performance assessments in an effort to measure broad domains of student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Fisher, Douglas; Roach, Virginia; Kearns, Jacqui – CISP Issue Brief, 1998
The National Consortium on Inclusive Schooling Practices (1996) developed a framework to analyze state and local policies and their effects on school inclusion. The framework focuses on standards-based systemic reform across six major policy areas: curriculum, student assessment, accountability, personnel development and professional training,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Accountability, Disabilities
Profiles Corp. – 1992
In 1992 the Utah State Office of Education initiated a review of recent literature on performance assessment as a step in establishing the foundation of the Utah State Core Curriculum Performance Assessment Program. Profiles Corporation conducted the review of the literature and contacted educators in all 50 states regarding the current state of…
Descriptors: Criteria, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
Linehan, Patrice – 2001
This document examines policy issues related to preparing educators to work with diverse learners, including students with disabilities. It begins by discussing the growing emphasis on accountability for all students and general education and special education as a unified system. Strategies that states are using for teacher recruitment and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Disabilities, Diversity (Student), Educational Change
