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Petrilli, Michael J. – Education Next, 2022
In the late 1960s, when federal officials and eminent psychologists were first designing the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), they probably never contemplated testing students younger than nine. The technology for mass testing at the time--bubble sheets and No. 2 pencils--only worked if students could read the instructions and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Student Evaluation, National Competency Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2023
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an integral measure of academic progress across the nation and over time. It is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what our nation's students know and can do in various subjects such as mathematics, reading, and science. The program also provides valuable…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Assessment, Grade 4, Grade 8
Aaron Glasgow; Gerald Tindal; Joseph F. T. Nese – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2023
This technical report describes the development of oral reading fluency passages for use in the CBMSkills assessment system. Seventeen passages were created for each of Grades 1 through 5. Passages were designed to target the fluency component of a developmental model of reading. All passages were written with the specification to use language and…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Reading Tests, Elementary School Students
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2025
Also known as The Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of student achievement and their learning experiences in various subjects for the nation, states, and 27 urban districts. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is currently…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Innovation, Futures (of Society), Achievement Tests
Kosh, Audra E. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2021
In recent years, Automatic Item Generation (AIG) has increasingly shifted from theoretical research to operational implementation, a shift raising some unforeseen practical challenges. Specifically, generating high-quality answer choices presents several challenges such as ensuring that answer choices blend in nicely together for all possible item…
Descriptors: Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Decision Making, Test Construction
Matthias von Davier, Editor; Ann Kennedy, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has been monitoring international trends in reading achievement among fourth-grade students for 25 years. As a critical point in a student's education, the fourth year of schooling establishes the foundations of literacy, with reading becoming increasingly central to learning across all…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
Wudthayagorn, Jirada; Piamsai, Chatraporn; Thanompongchart, Phasphan – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
In Thailand, a series of policies have been implemented at all levels of Thai education. It is hoped that English language ability among Thai citizens will be improved. In primary education, following the English language education policy for primary school students introduced by the Office of Basic Education Commission (2016), English has been…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Rating Scales
Lee, Dukjae; Buzick, Heather; Sireci, Stephen G.; Lee, Mina; Laitusis, Cara – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2021
Although there has been substantial research on the effects of test accommodations on students' performance, there has been far less research on students' use of embedded accommodations and other accessibility supports at the item and whole test level in operational testing programs. Data on embedded accessibility supports from digital logs…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Testing Accommodations, Accessibility (for Disabled), Computer Assisted Testing
Mikheeva, Ekaterina, Ed.; Meyer, Sebastian, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
IEA's International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018 is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work, and life in a digital world. The study measures international differences in students' computer and information literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, participate, and…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Computer Literacy, Information Literacy, Computer Assisted Testing
Gary Weiser; Alison K. Billman; Christopher J. Harris; Lauren M. Brodsky; Damelin Daniel – Grantee Submission, 2022
The "Framework" and NGSS bring to the forefront the role of language in doing science and in learning from doing science. Yet, most existing science assessments for elementary learners do not integrate or attend to aspects of scientific language and literacy that are essential components of science proficiency. Accordingly, there is a…
Descriptors: Standards, Language Role, Science Instruction, Science Tests
Brown, Carmen Sherry – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022
Family engagement is a reciprocal relationship between educators and families that supports whole child development. In response to the unique contexts and situations created by the COVID-19 pandemic, a faculty member in the School of Education at Hunter College, City University of New York (SOE), and families that had opted in to 100 percent…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Schulz, Wolfram; Fraillon, Julian; Losito, Bruno; Agrusti, Gabriella; Ainley, John; Damiani, Valeria; Friedman, Tim – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
The purpose of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) is to investigate the changing ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens across a wide range of countries. This assessment framework provides a conceptual underpinning for the international instrumentation for ICCS 2022. It needs to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Context Effect, Guidelines, Course Content
TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, 2016
The Internet has become the primary source for obtaining information at work, at home, and for school. Because Internet reading increasingly is becoming one of the central ways students are acquiring information, in 2016, PIRLS was extended to include ePIRLS--an innovative assessment of online reading. ePIRLS is a computer-based assessment that…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
Fraillon, Julian; Ainley, John; Schulz, Wolfram; Duckworth, Daniel; Friedman, Tim – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
The primary purpose of International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018 is to assess systematically the capacities of students to use ICT productively for a range of different purposes, in ways that go beyond a basic use of ICT. ICILS 2018 includes authentic computer-based assessments that are administered to students in their…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Computer Literacy, Information Literacy, Computer Attitudes
Bourgeois, Ania; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2019
This Eurydice report sheds light on two different but complementary perspectives of digital education: the development of digital competences relevant to learners and teachers on the one hand, and the pedagogical use of technologies to support, improve and transform learning and teaching on the other. The report covers different areas of digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education