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Integrating Formative and Summative Assessment: Progress toward a Seamless System? OECD Education Working Papers, No. 58
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Looney, Janet W. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
A long-held ambition for many educators and assessment experts has been to integrate summative and formative assessments so that data from external assessments used for system monitoring may also be used to shape teaching and learning in classrooms. In turn, classroom-based assessments may provide valuable data for decision makers at school and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Formative Evaluation, Testing, Summative Evaluation
Classroom Assessment in Action
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Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
Art Education in the 1990s: Meeting the Challenges of Accountability.
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Davis, D. Jack – Studies in Art Education, 1993
Reviews educational reforms of the past 10 years as they relate to visual arts education. Finds that progress has been made in the development of theoretical rationales for art education and in assessing teacher performance. Also finds that little progress has been made in evaluating student learning and performance. (CFR)
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Art Education, Curriculum Evaluation