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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
Peer reviewedAnderson, Beverly L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1985
The steady growth of state testing programs and its implications for the measurement community are discussed in terms of testing purposes (monitoring, accountability, and curriculum advancement) and test development, administration, and reporting. It is important that the measurement community address crucial issues to maintain its substantial…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Turnbull, William W. – 1971
Three propositions which may suggest a strategy for meeting the measurement needs of education are presented: (1) Educational measurement possesses enough techniques and principles to permit tackling problems for their intrinsic importance, rather than for their convenience of fit to answers we already have; (2) Measurement needs are a subset of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Programs, Educational Research
Chandler, John W. – 1986
The educational assessment movement holds considerable promise for encouraging college faculty to exercise collective responsibility to improve the quality of learning. Current efforts toward improving higher education include the Association of American Colleges' report, "Integrity in the College Curriculum"; William J. Bennett's…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Role
Peer reviewedShepard, Lorrie – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1979
Assessment generally refers to large-scale, system-wide measurement programs for pupil diagnosis; pupil certification; program evaluation; research; accountability; resource allocations; or teacher evaluation. The purpose of assessment should determine the test content, construction, administration, and examinees sampled. Assessment methods for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1987
Nine papers were presented at the 1986 Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference on outcomes assessment in higher education. The Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement was awarded to Frederic Kuder for development of the Kuder-Richardson 20 and KR-21 formulas for test reliability, the Kuder Preference Record, and the Kuder…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), College Students
Educational Records Bureau, Framingham, MA. – 1970
The 1970 Educational Conference sponsored by the Educational Records Bureau focused on the topic "Testing in Turmoil: A Conference on Problems and Issues in Educational Measurement." The International Reading Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education co-sponsored two conference sessions entitled "The Measurement of Reading:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Conference Reports
