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Download full textGillanders, Cristina; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Bagwell, Cindy; Adejumo, Tobi – School Community Journal, 2021
From a sociocultural perspective to assessment, this study investigated parents' beliefs about formative assessment. When North Carolina (NC) received an Early Learning Challenge Grant, its Department of Public Instruction was funded to develop a kindergarten entry assessment. The department proposed the development of a kindergarten to third…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Primary Education, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation
Tsagari, Dina – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2016
Many researchers have highlighted the central role that assessment plays in second language (L2) classrooms and have expressed the need for research into classroom-based language assessment (CBLA), an area that is gradually coming into its own in the field of language testing and assessment (e.g., Hasselgreen, 2008; Leung, 2014; Hill &…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Gold, Judith; Potter, Lance – 1999
Developed for the America Reads initiative, this paper presents the LEARNS (Linking Education and America Reads through National Service) Literacy Assessment Profile (LLAP), a student assessment system that is designed to improve providers' ability to deliver high quality literacy programs to students, assess students' literacy understanding, set…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Literacy
Low, Marylin – 2001
The reading comprehension assessment tool is a product developed for the Regional Educational Laboratory's (REL) initiative, Pacific Communities with High performance In Literacy Development, herein named the Pacific CHILD. This research project is focused on school improvement, especially as it relates to the teaching and learning of early…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diversity (Student), Educational Improvement, Emergent Literacy
Gagliano, Kathy; Swiatek, Laura – 1999
This report describes a program that was implemented to improve student assessment through the use of portfolios. The targeted population consisted of a first and third grade classroom in a suburb of a large Midwestern metropolitan area. The problems related to assessment were documented by state mandated test scores, teacher determined grades,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Grade 3
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1988
Curriculum mapping activities can be useful in analyzing curriculum goals and planning curriculum revision. This document is specifically designed using the Science Education Curriculum Goals articulated by the State of Oregon for grade 3. The goal areas include concepts, processing, manipulative skills, interests, values, interactions and…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Science
McCaffrey, Arthur – 1980
The results of a study in applied educational psycholinguistics are presented. The project used a theoretical model of communicative competence to develop testing techniques for diagnosing levels of ability in functional language skills, and to develop training techniques to promote the acquisition of speaking and listening skills among elementary…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Diagnostic Teaching
Branch, Myra; Grafelman, Brenda; Hurelbrink, Kurt – 1998
This report describes a program for increasing student ownership and responsibility to bring about quality work. The students were actively involved in the collaborative assessment process. The targeted population consisted of first and second grade students in a middle class community in Central Illinois. An increased sense of ownership,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conferences, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1986
During the 1985-1986 school year, the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) implemented the Writing to Read program, which is designed to improve the writing, language and vocabulary development, and reading of young children. The Planning, Monitoring, and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model for Decision Making was used to evaluate two…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children
Dombrower, Jule; And Others – 1982
The first volume of a program to increase the academic growth of preschool and primary grade children through the utilization of brain hemisphere research, this manual outlines brain dominance theory and provides two instruments for assessing students' preferred style of learning. Material is provided in eight sections. Section 1 introduces the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Instruction. – 1992
The Maryland School Performance Program released six sample tasks to illustrate the types of assessment tasks that would appear on the 1992 Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP). Students' responses to these tasks are open-ended; that is, students generate their own responses. A wide range of responses to each task is acceptable.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Grade 3
Community School District 18, Brooklyn, NY. – 1991
This packet contains a set of assessment activities to identify gifted and talented children at the kindergarten level, based on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. The six assessments measure linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal/intrapersonal intelligence. For each assessment,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Intelligence
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 2001
One component of the Reading Plan for Michigan is to develop and implement methods of assessing children's progress in acquiring early literacy skills and of communicating their status and progress to other teachers and parents. This document presents an assessment and instructional system, the Michigan Literacy Progress Profile 2001 (MLPP 2001),…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Letters (Alphabet)
Jackson, Thomas C. – 1988
This practicum provides school psychologists (SPs) with information on child development as a means of heightening the SP's awareness of the importance of using alternative assessment strategies with young children. The second aim was to introduce the concept of an ecological assessment by increasing the use of classroom observation,…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Child Development, Classroom Observation Techniques
Nocerino, Mary Ann; And Others – 1984
The Fairfax County, Virginia, Schools' Primary Mathematics Program (PMP) was re-evaluated to provide additional data on program effectiveness and to provide suggestions on future program development, implementation, and improvement. Seventy-one teachers in 14 schools implemented the pilot program. Evaluative data included interviews with 14…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary School Mathematics
