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Rabinowitz, Stanley; Ananda, Sri – 2001
This brief makes the case for thoughtful district- or school-driven assessment systems that complement and go beyond what statewide testing systems are able to accomplish. It describes important attributes of model local assessment programs and presents the necessary steps for building a local assessment program that will elicit information that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Program Implementation, Psychometrics
Yocum, Karolyn L. – 1995
The speech communication discipline seems to be stuck in status quo. The current climate of the discipline K-12 is one that is not mobilized for the future. However, a paradigm shift within the Speech Communication Association may be evolving in the creation of a model for the process for development of assessment strategies and instruments.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Mkandawire, Donton S. J. – 1981
The problem of finding a meaningful way of demonstrating the benefit or satisfaction to be gained by using predictive assessment techniques to select or place individuals in work situations is explored. The urgent need of developing nations for appropriate occupational and educational selection procedures is presented and explained. A discussion…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Models
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Taylor, Catherine S.; Nolen, Susan Bobbitt – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1996
The usefulness of traditional concepts of validity and reliability, developed for large-scale assessments, for the classroom context is explored. Alternate frameworks that situate these constructs in teachers' work in classrooms are presented, and their use in an assessment course for preservice teachers is described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning, Models, Preservice Teachers
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Shoemaker, David M. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
Several aspects of national competency tests are discussed: two conceptualizations; arguments pro and con; the federal perspective; a distillation of support and opposition to arguments judged unique to national competency tests; and a hypothetical procedure for implementation. (MH)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Needs, Federal Government
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Mercer, Jane R. – School Psychology Digest, 1979
A defense of the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA) in response to previous articles in this issue of this journal is presented by the test developer. The defense is detailed and addresses each previous article. (JKS)
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Persons
Hill, Richard – 1992
Educational refinement is defined as attempts to improve education through incremental improvements in the existing structure, while educational reform refers to change in the structure itself. A strong move is underway to reform education in the United States. It is argued that the development of assessments in support of educational reform…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement