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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 8
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Value-Added Assessment: College Education and Student Growth.
Belcher, Marcia J.
New Directions for Community Colleges, n59 p31-38 Fall 1987
Offers a synthesis of the arguments for and against value-added testing (i.e., assessing how much students learn or improve or grow in school or college). Looks at alternative methods of measuring the value added in terms of the relationship between entry and exit skills. (DMM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Outcomes of Education, Pretests Posttests, Student Development, Student Evaluation, Test Use, Testing Programs, Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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