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Direct linkAbu-Alhija, Fadia Nasser – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
This article discusses the positive and negative consequences of large-scale testing on five key stakeholders of testing results: students, teachers, administrators, policymakers and parents. The factors that affect the nature of testing consequences are also discussed and means that may provide remedies for associated pitfalls are proposed.
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Measurement, Student Evaluation, Test Results
Download full textIowa Department of Education, 2010
For 21 years the Annual Condition of Education Report has helped the Iowa Department of Education meet its goal, providing valuable information on everything from enrollment to student performance, from the teachers to finances to the demographics. The data for this annual report are presented according to: (1) Background Demographics; (2)…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends
Ligon, Glynn – 1985
Careful management of a testing program can greatly limit a teacher's opportunity to cheat while administering standardized tests to students and can increase the likelihood that such cheating will be detected. The Austin Independent School District's systemwide testing staff's plan for controlling cheating has three basic premises: (1) plan and…
Descriptors: Cheating, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Cook, Nancy R.; Smith, Robert A. – 1999
New Hampshire has adopted a standards-based statewide assessment, the New Hampshire Educational Improvement and Assessment Program (NHEIAP), which is designed to measure students' learning against proficiency standards at grades 3, 6, and 10. Because of the difficulty teachers had in interpreting the NHEIAP results, a custom-designed software…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Data Analysis
Flippo, Rona F. – 1985
The pattern toward an increase in the number of states using some form of competency testing prior to the certification of educators is substantiated in this paper. Competency testing programs are implemented at three distinct levels: (1) before entrance into a teacher education program near the end of the sophomore year in college; (2) at the end…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Ladders, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Scanlon, David – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
Since 1960 most of the countries in middle Africa have gained their independence and are confronting the great problems of nation building and economic development. The entire region shows both a popular enthusiasm for education and a conviction among leaders that education is a key to economic and social development. This bulletin has been…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Course Content
