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Jonsson, Anders; Lundahl, Christian; Holmgren, Anders – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This study reports on a large-scale implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a Swedish municipality. The implementation was founded on two principles: (1) teaching should be informed by educational research; (2) to be successful teachers' professional development needs to be based in everyday classroom practice. From these principles,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Research, Instructional Innovation
Betts, Diane Gmitro – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of professional learning communities (PLC) is for teachers to come together to discuss and examine student learning and ultimately to make instructional changes that can lead to improved student learning. The formative use of assessments that are commonly agreed upon by this community of teachers is believed to enhance their improvement…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Psychometrics, Communities of Practice, Role Perception
Faria, Ann-Marie; Heppen, Jessica; Li, Yibing; Stachel, Suzanne; Jones, Wehmah; Sawyer, Katherine; Thomsen, Kerri; Kutner, Melissa; Miser, David; Lewis, Sharon; Casserly, Michael; Simon, Candace; Uzzell, Renata; Corcoran, Amanda; Palacios, Moses – Council of the Great City Schools, 2012
In recent years, interest has spiked in data-driven decision making in education--that is, using various types of student data to inform decisions in schools and classrooms. In October 2008, the Council of the Great City Schools and American Institutes for Research (AIR) launched a project funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that focused…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Urban Schools, Instructional Improvement
Barnett, Angela L. – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to inform instruction by using data as a progress-monitoring tool to drive instruction and ultimately student achievement. During the course of this study, data was gathered from a pre-test in a mathematics measurement unit to determine differentiated instruction and grouping. Formative short frequent assessments were…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Grade 4
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Shepard, Lorrie A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
School districts across the country have adopted interim and benchmark assessments in response to NCLB pressures to raise student achievement, despite the lack of a research base. Thus, it is especially important that well-conceived, empirical studies of the effects of such programs be carried out. Various theoretical frames can help understand…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Evaluation Utilization
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Blanc, Suzanne; Christman, Jolley Bruce; Liu, Roseann; Mitchell, Cecily; Travers, Eva; Bulkley, Katrina E. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
This article examines the use of interim assessments in elementary schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The article reports on the qualitative component of a multimethod study about the use of interim assessments in Philadelphia. The study used an organizational learning framework to explore how schools can best develop the capacity to…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Educational Assessment, Data, Student Evaluation
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Militello, Matthew; Heffernan, Neil – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
Recent legislative and local school accountability efforts have placed a premium on the collection, analysis, and use of student assessment data. Beyond state-based summative student achievement data, schools are searching for in-year information about student performance. As a result, school leaders are searching for the formative assessment…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Needs
Robinson, Marian A. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2010
Background: Through its Children First initiative, New York City policymakers promoted collaborative inquiry as a process for helping administrators and teachers use student data to improve instruction and raise student achievement. Since 2007, city schools were expected to engage higher proportions of faculty in the inquiry work each year.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Leadership Styles, Educational Change, Educational Strategies
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Murtagh, Lisa; Baker, Nadine – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2009
Much time is invested by markers in providing feedback to students that is personalised, aimed at providing them with information to feed forward into their next piece of work. Given the investment of time by tutors in the feedback process, we were necessarily concerned with how it is used by students and keen to explore and develop practice. This…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Reaction, Student Evaluation, Action Research
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Nichols, Paul D.; Meyers, Jason L.; Burling, Kelly S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Assessments labeled as formative have been offered as a means to improve student achievement. But labels can be a powerful way to miscommunicate. For an assessment use to be appropriately labeled "formative," both empirical evidence and reasoned arguments must be offered to support the claim that improvements in student achievement can be linked…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tutoring, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Parr, Judy M.; Timperley, Helen S. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
Despite assessment being viewed as integral to practice, there are questions about schools' preparedness to engage in this process. Data from three studies conducted in New Zealand primary schools explore whether use of student achievement data is part of the professional canon or skill set. (1) When implementing new literacy materials, evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods
Hollandsworth, Linda – 1992
The background and purpose of course assessment are examined. The paper includes suggestions for classroom instructors in setting up formative assessment plans based on qualitative research. Focus is on the interview technique. It is discussed as a practical source for evaluating what actually takes place during a course, including the appraisal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, College Students, Course Content