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Mahasneh, Ahmad; Al-Zou'bi, Zohair – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
This study examines the perceptions of Jordanian science teachers' conceptions of assessment, and how these perceptions are affected by the teacher's gender, length of experience, and subject variables. The teacher conception of the assessment questionnaire was completed by 488 teachers. It consisted of 27 items spread over four dimensions: school…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Accountability
Hellrung, Katrin; Hartig, Johannes – Educational Research Review, 2013
To improve the quality of teaching, educational accountability needs to include periodic external evaluations of students' performance. This requires evaluation formats which support the development of the educational process and provide information which is understandable for teachers. The aims of this study were to review: (i) how teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Feedback (Response), Teacher Improvement
Militello, Matthew; Militello, Luke – Educational Forum, 2013
Recent educational accountability efforts have married student assessments with reform mandates and sanctions. As a result, students--beginning in early elementary grades--are feeling the pressures of this new era of high-stakes accountability. This article chronicles a story of the consequences of high-stakes testing on a father and his son.…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hendrickson, Jo M. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2012
Assessment permeates many aspects of our educational society. With the passage of federal legislation (i.e., No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004), assessment in the form of accountability is ever present in our K-12 educational system. Current assessment practices should be used in…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Polikoff, Morgan S.; McEachin, Andrew J.; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Duque, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2014
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have recently received waivers to the school accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As the prospects for reauthorizing the Act in the near term are dim, these new accountability systems will be law for at least several years. Drawing on a four-part framework from the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Bornfreund, Laura; McCann, Clare; Williams, Conor; Guernsey, Lisa – New America, 2014
Earlier this year, in "Subprime Learning: Early Education in America since the Great Recession," the current state of early education in the U.S. was surveyed by examining progress over the last five years . It was found that while the public, political, and research consensus is stronger than ever, the field remains in dire need of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Brookhart, Susan M. – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
The United States education system depends on legislation and funding at the federal, state and local levels. Public understanding of assessment therefore is important to educational reform in the USA. Educational reformers often invoke assessment information as a reason for reform, typically by citing unacceptable achievement on some measure or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Public Opinion, Educational Indicators
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
Foster, John; Kelley, Patricia; Pritz, Sandy; Hodes, Carol – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
Just one of the ways career and technical education (CTE) is revamping its image is through increased attention to data-driven instructional techniques as a means of improving and focusing instruction on what matters most. Accountability and data have increasingly become a core focus of research, news, and commentary about education in recent…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Accountability
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
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Marietta, Sky H. – Guilford Publications, 2011
All too often, literacy assessments are given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise book shows K-5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction.…
Descriptors: Test Results, Second Language Learning, Accountability, Individualized Instruction
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
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

Harada, Violet H. – Teacher Librarian, 2005
No matter which community people live in, they are bound to hear educators deliberating on topics such as quality assurance, data-driven decision making, and curriculum restructuring. Whether these discussions involve parents, teachers, administrators, school board members, or community leaders, two issues consistently emerge: the demand for…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability, Academic Achievement
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
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