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Download full textWilliams, Richard C.; Bank, Adrianne – 1982
The attempt by a small number of school districts to forge a linkage among testing and evaluation and instructional decision making is examined. The sample districts (approximately six) exhibit characteristics that represent the diversity of American school districts in size, locale, and student demographics. Three researchers spent approximately…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
Peer reviewedFields, Jacqueline P.; Kumar, V. K. – Journal of School Psychology, 1982
Interviewed 90 elementary school teachers on how they used the results of group IQ tests. Data indicated 30 percent of teachers reported making "little or no use" of the test scores. However, 84 percent of teachers stated that they used the test scores for one or more purposes. Discusses four most frequently mentioned uses. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Instructional Development, Intelligence Quotient
Burry, James; And Others – 1981
This document contains three papers from the Test Use Project of the Center for the Study of Evaluation. A preliminary assessment model is described in the first paper, "Contextual Examination of Test Use: The Test, the Setting, the Cost" by J. Herman and J. Yeh. Empirical findings are sought about the nature of testing and its actual…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrative Policy, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center, Atlanta, GA. Region 3. – 1985
To help Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 personnel work more effectively with test publishers, a survey was conducted of selected publishers of norm-referenced tests commonly used by Chapter 1 Local Educational Agencies (LEAs). The test publishers included: (1) CTB/McGraw-Hill; (2) The Psychological Corporation; (3) the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Instructional Development, Norm Referenced Tests
The Impact of Pupil Mobility on Assessment of Achievement and Its Implications for Program Planning.
Sewell, Carl; And Others – 1982
This study examines the relationship between student mobility and achievement test results in predominately Black and Hispanic Community School District 17, Brooklyn, New York. The project is designed to assess the impact of mobility on pupil achievement and the interpretation of achievement data, as well as to map the pupil population mobility. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Instructional Development, Mathematics Achievement
Mitchell, Stephanie; Hansen, Joe B. – 1989
In July 1986, the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools began a 3-year study of the use of evaluative data in instructional planning and decision making in schools. This report summarizes the second year of the investigation, in which case studies of evaluative data use were conducted in one elementary school (kindergarten through grade 5) and one…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
