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American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. – 1999
The standards outlined in this book have been developed to provide criteria for the evaluation of tests, testing practices, and the effects of test use. The "Standards" provides a frame of reference to ensure that relevant issues are addressed. The first part of the book, "Test Construction, Evaluation, and Documentation,"…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods, Psychological Testing, Reliability
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This document provides statements presented at the oversight hearing on testing and assessment evaluation to improve learning in the nation's schools. Walter Haney summarizes the National Commission on Testing and Public Policy's recent report, which concluded that while well-designed and responsibly used assessment is an important source of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1993
At one of a series of hearings on H.R. 6, the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1993, several experts discussed issues related to national assessment, assessment in Chapter 1, and state efforts to develop new forms of assessment. Eleanor Chelimsky, Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and Methodology of the General…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
