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Wagner, Inga; Loesche, Philipp; Bißantz, Steven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
The German school system employs centrally organized performance assessments (some of which are called "VERA") as a way of promoting lesson development. In recent years, several German federal states introduced a computer-based performance testing system which will replace the paper-pencil testing system in the future. Scores from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Testing, Evaluation Methods
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Castellano, Katherine E.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2020
Testing programs are often interested in using a student growth measure. This article presents analytic derivations of the accuracy of common student growth measures on both the raw scale of the test and the percentile rank scale in terms of the proportional reduction in mean squared error and the squared correlation between the estimator and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Accuracy, Testing, Student Development
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Nelson-Barber, Sharon; Johnson, Zanette – International Review of Education, 2019
Preserving the unique contours of cultural communities is integral to the rich weave of our collective human heritage. However, the postcolonial United States (US) educational paradigm, reflected in curricula and standards based on white middle-class norms, has a flattening effect on the vibrancy of diverse languages and community traditions.…
Descriptors: Standards, Best Practices, Indigenous Populations, Whites
Sanders, Sara – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth (NDTAC), 2019
This guide is designed to assist States, agencies, and/or facilities who work with youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at-risk (N or D). The information in the guide will benefit those who are (a) interested in implementing pre-posttests, (b) in the process of identifying an appropriate pre-posttest, or (c) ready to evaluate current testing…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Delinquency, Pretests Posttests, Testing
Williams, James H.; Engel, Laura C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Given the primary role of teachers in affecting student achievement, U.S. policy makers and reformers have increasingly focused on monitoring and evaluating teacher effectiveness by emphasizing the links to student learning outcomes. Large-scale international assessments are frequently used as base examples to justify reform. But, relatively…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability
Schaeffer, Bob – District Administration, 2012
A rising tide of protest is sweeping across the nation as growing numbers of parents, teachers, administrators and academics take action against high-stakes testing. Instead of test-and-punish policies, which have failed to improve academic performance or equity, the movement is pressing for broader forms of assessment. From Texas to New York and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Testing
Herman, Joan, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2017
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainment--the number of years a person spends in school--strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who heretofore led the…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Interpersonal Competence
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Wiklund-Hornqvist, Carola – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2011
Introduction: The Swedish government has decided to introduce national tests in primary education. Swedish pupils in general have few tests and a recognised possible adverse effect of testing is test anxiety among pupils, which may have a negative impact on examination performance. However, there has been little research on effects of testing on…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Testing, Grade 3
Harris, Phillip; Smith, Bruce M.; Harris, Joan – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say--and the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Autobiographies
Mullis, Ina V. S.; Bohrnstedt, George W.; Preuschoff, Anna Corinna; de los Reyes, Illiana; Stancavage, Fran; Martin, Michael O. – American Institutes for Research, 2012
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has expended considerable effort to ensure high quality in data collection by developing standardized materials and survey operation procedures and using well-trained professional administrators. However, schools are allowed to minimize the disruption associated with pulling students out of…
Descriptors: Testing, National Competency Tests, Program Effectiveness, Scores
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Wu, Huang-Ching; Chang, Chun-Yen; Chen, Chia-Li D.; Yeh, Ting-Kuang; Liu, Cheng-Chueh – Research in Science Education, 2010
This study developed two testing devices, namely the animation-based test (ABT) and the graphic-based test (GBT) in the area of earth sciences covering four domains that ranged from astronomy, meteorology, oceanography to geology. Both the students' achievements of and their attitudes toward ABT compared to GBT were investigated. The purposes of…
Descriptors: Animation, Science Achievement, Testing, Academic Achievement
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Mhishi, Misheck; Mandoga, Edward; Tunjera, Nyarai; Bhukuvhani, Crispen Erinos – International Education Studies, 2012
School-Based Assessment (SBA) can help achieve a holistic, child-centred and qualitative account of a pupil's performance. The same method has been criticised for being subjective, informal and open to teacher bias hence the reluctance by the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) to embrace it for certification and selection into further…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Questionnaires
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Lee, Jaekyung – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
This study examines trends in American students' growth trajectories in reading and math achievement over the past three decades. Drawing upon multiple sources of national assessment data, cohort analyses provide new evidence on the stability and change of national academic growth curves. The emerging trends imply a tripartite pattern where…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Robertson, William L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Presenting college students, in a wide variety of content areas, with frequent announced and unannounced quizzes appears to correlate positively with enhanced test performance. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine if similar results can be achieved with high school students in a standard economics class. Based on a theoretical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Operant Conditioning, Tests, Program Effectiveness
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van Ackeren, Isabell; Block, Rainer; Klein, E. Dominique; Kuhn, Svenja M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
In this article we present results from a study investigating the impact of three state exit exam systems on teaching and learning in college-preparatory schools. The study compares one state with a traditionally more centralized exam regime, one state that is more de-centralized and one state that has recently switched to more centralized…
Descriptors: Testing, Academic Achievement, Exit Examinations, Program Effectiveness
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