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Direct linkAbrams, Lisa M.; McMillan, James H.; Wetzel, Angela P. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2015
In response to US accountability policies and yearly performance targets, school districts are implementing periodic or benchmark assessments to provide teachers with data to improve instruction and student achievement. The tests are typically given quarterly to track student progress toward yearly accountability goals, as well as to inform…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Best Practices
Download full textNorthwest Evaluation Association, 2014
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) released the first comprehensive study of assessment perceptions in 2012 that surveyed parents, teachers, and district administrators. In the intervening years, the landscape has shifted dramatically; indeed, it continues to shift every day. With new standards, accountability assessments, and ways of…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Educational Testing, Student Surveys, Teacher Surveys
King, Jean A.; Rohmer-Hirt, Johnna A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
From the 1980s to the present, educational accountability in the United States has grown dramatically. Such accountability in U.S. school districts, although driven primarily by external demands, has internal manifestations as well. The chapter traces the historical development of internal evaluation in American school districts, then highlights…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Testing Programs, Standardized Tests, School Districts
Caudell, Lee Sherman – Northwest Education, 1996
Most states have expanded their statewide testing programs to include alternative educational assessments, and two (Kentucky and Maine) have completely abandoned the multiple-choice format. However, over half of states designing alternative assessments are encountering major difficulties related to the high cost of performance-based assessments,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Costs, Educational Assessment
Archbald, Douglas A.; Porter, Andrew C. – 1990
The role and influence of mandated testing in educational reform are reviewed. Mandated testing refers to large-scale (districtwide or statewide) multiple-choice testing programs used for policy purposes of evaluation and accountability, which includes nationally normed standardized achievement tests and tests custom-developed to reflect state and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History
National Education Goals Panel, Washington, DC. – 1996
This "Profile" offers a snapshot of state assessment systems by describing some of their fundamental characteristics. Its focus is on what individual states are doing in terms of developing their own standards and assessments and how they report these results. Two pages of information are presented for each state (but not for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
