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Download full textTroppe, Patricia; Osowski, Michelle; Wolfson, Mary; Ristow, Liam; Lomax, Erin; Thacker, Arthur; Schultz, Sheila – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
This appendix volume supplements "Evaluating the Federal Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority: Early Implementation and Progress of State Efforts to Develop New Statewide Academic Assessments. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2023-004" analyzing the early progress of the first five assessment systems participating in the Innovative…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Testing Programs, State Programs
Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Williamson, Joanna – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2022
This research will investigate the impact of awarding centre assessment grades (CAGs) on the education system. The focus will be on the progression to post-16 study of the students who sat General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and/or other Level 1/2 qualifications in June 2020. The uptake of qualifications/subjects taken during the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
Provasnik, Stephen; Dogan, Enis; Erberber, Ebru; Zheng, Xiaying – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
Large-scale assessment programs, such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), employ item response theory (IRT) and marginal estimation methods to estimate student proficiency in specific subjects such as mathematics, science, or reading. Each of these…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Academic Achievement, Item Response Theory
Davis, Laurie L.; Moyer, Eric L. – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2015
This report is made up of seven chapters relating to Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) performance level setting (PLS). Chapter one describes the goals of the PARCC program, content standards measured by PARCC, PARCC performance levels, and components of the PARCC system. Chapter two discusses the goals of…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Program Descriptions, Educational Objectives
Direct linkOECD Publishing, 2013
Effective teaching and teachers are key to producing high-performing students worldwide. So how can countries prepare teachers to face the diverse challenges in today's schools? The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) helps answer this question. TALIS asks teachers and schools about their working conditions and the learning…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions, Work Environment
Kaplan, David; Turner, Alyn – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) constitute two of the largest ongoing international student and teacher surveys presently underway. Data generated from these surveys offer researchers and policy-makers opportunities to identify particular educational…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Teacher Surveys, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
Alberta Education, 2008
Classroom teachers, specialists and school principals will find this "List of Assessment Resources for English as a Second Language (ESL)" useful for determining the level of instruction for new students, measuring student growth, communicating about student learning, and for applying for ESL funding and for special considerations on…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Second Languages, Evaluation Criteria, Achievement Tests
Levy, Dan; Sloan, Matt; Linden, Leigh; Kazianga, Harounan – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2009
The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso. It focused on girls in particular and was implemented in 132 rural villages throughout the 10 provinces of the country in which girls' enrollment rates were lowest. It consisted of constructing primary schools with three classrooms and implementing a…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Females, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Utah State Office of Education, 2004
Utah's Alternate Assessment (UAA) is one of six components of the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS). UAA is designed to assess the achievement of students in grades 1 through 12 with significant cognitive disabilities. It was developed to fulfill two main purposes: (1) To address federal legislative mandates that all…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Accountability
Bowe, Branin; Cronin, John – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2005
Recently NWEA completed a project to connect the scale of the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) with NWEA's RIT scale. One large school system participated in the study, using test information from a group of over 24,000 students enrolled in third, fourth and fifth grade who took both the MSA and NWEA reading tests in the spring of 2005.…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Cutting Scores, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests
Deno, Stanley L.; And Others – 1980
Three concurrent validity studies were conducted to determine the relationship between performances on formative measures of reading and standardized achievement measures of reading. Correlational analyses for five formative measures and three standardized measures provided evidence for the validity of Words in Isolation, Words in Context, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research
Cronin, John; Bowe, Branin – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2005
Each spring, Arizona students participate in testing as part of the state's assessment program. Elementary and middle school students in grades 3 through 8 take the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards--Dual Purpose Assessment (AIMS DPA) in reading, writing, and mathematics. These tests serve as an important measure of student achievement for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, State Programs, Achievement Tests, State Standards
Cronin, John; McCall, Martha – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2004
Northwest Evaluation Association regularly conducts studies of alignment between the RIT scale and the scales used for statewide achievement tests. In recent years, educational experts have put increasing emphasis on the need for triangulation of student achievement information in order to assure that important educational decisions are based on…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Reading Achievement
Neidorf, Teresa Smith; Binkley, Marilyn; Stephens, Maria – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This technical report describes a study that was undertaken to compare the content of two recent fourth-and eighth-grade assessments in science: the NAEP 2000 assessment and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 assessment. Its aim is to provide information that will be useful for interpreting and comparing the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 8, National Competency Tests
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
Seventeen instruments were used to provide the answers to the design and evaluation questions for the 1979-80 ESEA Title I regular program in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. In the final technical report, a separate appendix for each instrument includes a description of its purpose, procedure, and results as related to specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
