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McDivitt, Patrica Jo – 2003
In today's educational setting, assessment results weigh heavily in determining what students should know and be able to do. In addition, because assessment scores are often tied to accountability systems that affect both teaching and learning, they influence what is taught in the classroom. The changes in the use of assessments underscore the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Learning Motivation

Popham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2004
The importance of educational accountability and assessment literacy is recognized as a long-term challenge to the educational system. The complexities in becoming an assessment literate and provide an opportunity to the educators to display their effective learning is discussed.
Descriptors: Accountability, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Testing
Coffman, William E. – 1974
Many problems in the areas of test interpretation and educational assessment are causing difficulties for educators. On one hand the public and legislators are requesting more state testing programs and assessment programs, while on the other, educators realize the problems concerning testing and test interpretation. Difficulties arise when tests…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Testing, Groups
Haag, Carl H. – 1978
Some uses of achievement tests to provide information for school administrators are described. Three systematic programs are described briefly: (1) a computer-based approach to management and planning designed to answer what is to be learned, how is it to be learned, and has it been learned; (2) a problem solving design for accountability that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity
Rudman, Herbert C. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1977
This discussion of educational trends of interest to school superintendents focuses on three issues: (1) the general decline of birth rates, school enrollments, staff, facilities, and expenditures for instruction; (2) the increase in mandated assessments and programs brought on by declining academic performance and political influences; (3) the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Declining Enrollment, Educational Legislation
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr. – 1980
The increasing use of educational tests to establish the accountability, credibility, and viability of educational programs is paralleled with increasing criticism of the "accountability through testing" philosophy. To analyze the relevancy and appropriateness of tests for educational decision making at the school district level, three…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Testing
Airasian, Peter W. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1979
The nature and common uses of standardized achievement tests are described and placed in context in order to evaluate claims and criticisms that are commonly made. Tests are described as samples of behavior and hence subject to sampling errors. Much of the debate is dominated by emotion and prejudices. There is very little empirical evidence about…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Objectives

Popham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2003
Discusses which kinds of data educators should respect and which they should reject. Asserts that most state accountability tests fail to produce the kinds of data that will improve teaching and learning. Teachers can get the data they need from their own instructionally useful classroom assessments. (WFA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 2000
This comprehensive report on Texas schools indicates that more than 80 percent of students pass the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TASS) test, and students continue to show impressive gains on math and reading tests. Chapter 1, "Student Performance," provides data on student performance on the Spring 2000 Texas Assessment of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests
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