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Ydesen, Christian – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
This article reveals perspectives based on experiences from twentieth-century Danish educational history by outlining contemporary, test-based accountability regime characteristics and their implications for education policy. The article introduces one such characteristic, followed by an empirical analysis of the origins and impacts of test-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Testing, Accountability
Ross, Doris M. – 1973
This report contains replies to questionnaires sent to State legislatures, legislative service agencies, State school boards associations, and State offices of the NEA and the AFT asking for information on legislation and achievements in education. Information from the replies is supplemented by data acquired from reviews of newsletters,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, Intelligence Tests
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Resnick, Lauren B. – Social Policy, 1977
Discusses the difficulties that arise when tests designed for one purpose are used for another. Points out that tests reflect the characteristics of the institutions that use them and emphasizes the need for more careful design of actual instructional programs as well as of the tests intended to assess learning. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Hawthorne, Phyllis – 1973
The first part of this report highlights what is required in the legislative language of statutes enacted by various States by identifying their specific characteristics in a series of tables. Discussion of these characteristics and comparisons and comments on omissions and trends are presented in the text. The second part of the report consists…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Testing
Hawthorne, Phyllis – 1973
This looseleaf publication updates an earlier report. Some of the pages contain new laws enacted since the first report was completed. The report provides tables showing the status of accountability legislation as of the fall of 1972 and texts of the actual bills or laws in a State-by-State format. The facets of accountability that the laws cover…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Testing
Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Weiner, Max, Ed. – 1978
Educational testing and its uses have come under increasing criticism as they are used more and more for decision making--to determine student tracking assignments, college admission, personnel selection, and licensing policies. The papers from this conference, which discussed the major issues in testing, include: (1) Testing: A Parent's Point of…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Accountability, Achievement Tests, College Admission