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Download full textMassachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2008
This paper presents the Final Report on the Audio-Digital MCAS Pilot Program. The Department and Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) have collaborated to provide audio-digital read-aloud editions of the Grade 10 English Language Arts and Mathematics MCAS tests for a small number of students with disabilities such as dyslexia and/or…
Descriptors: Test Results, Individualized Education Programs, Pilot Projects, Educational Assessment
Center on Education Policy, 2009
This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Legislation
Direct linkOlson, Lynn – Education Week, 2007
This article features FAST-R, or Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading, a new assessment tool that measures critical-reading skills. FAST-R was developed by the the nonprofit Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE), a local education foundation, to provide teachers with information about what students are thinking when they try to find…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Skills, Testing Programs, Formative Evaluation
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 2002
This report shares with educators and the public all of the test items on which spring 2002 student results from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) are based. The release of these items provides information on the kinds of knowledge and skills students are expected to demonstrate on the MCAS tests. Local educators are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs, Test Items
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 2001
This overview of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests is designed to help schools implement the Massachusetts"Curriculum Frameworks." For this fourth administration of the MCAS tests in 2001, the design of the tests remains essentially the same, but there are some changes highlighted in this overview. The first…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs
Holbrook, Pixie J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
A teacher describes the frustrations of an intelligent, learning-disabled fourth-grader who cannot pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System despite standard academic accommodations. The teacher advocates development of alternative or "nonstandard" accommodations and tests that assess students' spatial, problem-solving, and…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Failure, Elementary Education, High Stakes Tests
Stansfield, Charles W.; Kahl, Stuart R. – 1998
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is the new Massachusetts state assessment program that is being implemented in response to state education reform legislation. The paper describes the early efforts of the state Department of Education (MDOE), its prime contractor for development of the MCAS (Advanced Systems in Measurement…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
