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Marion, S. F.; Gonzales, D.; Wiener, R.; Peltzman, A. – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2020
State policymakers are confronting well-documented intersecting crises -- medical, economic, and racial -- with especially dire implications for educational equity. State education leaders face a moral urgency to both understand and respond to the challenges students are experiencing and to do so in ways that address burgeoning equity gaps.…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Opportunities, Program Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
Education Scotland, 2020
Through our national thematic reports HM Inspectors of Education share their professional view on particular aspects of education. This report focuses on sharing the key features which, when taken together, make the greatest difference to using assessment effectively to improve learning and teaching and in turn, outcomes for children and young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, General Education, Educational Practices
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Borsboom, Denny; Wijsen, Lisa D. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The distinction between facts and moral values is highly desirable: science and politics should keep to their own territories. Traditionally speaking, science can be seen as an ivory tower, which attempts to do its job in isolation of external influences. Politics does not mandate methods of scientific research or standards of justification;…
Descriptors: Validity, Sciences, Politics, Definitions
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Anderson, Lorin W. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
In this summary article, six recommendations for the design, implementation, and interpretation of educational evaluations are presented and discussed. These recommendations are based on common "threads" that run through most, if not all, of the papers included in this special issue. The recommendations concern (1) the need for awareness…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Program Design, Program Implementation
Porter, Kristin E.; Balu, Rekha – MDRC, 2016
Education systems are increasingly creating rich, longitudinal data sets with frequent, and even real-time, data updates of many student measures, including daily attendance, homework submissions, and exam scores. These data sets provide an opportunity for district and school staff members to move beyond an indicators-based approach and instead…
Descriptors: Models, Prediction, Statistical Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth (MTEG) offers a flexible, collaborative approach to developing and implementing an assessment of learning outcomes that yields high-quality, nationally relevant data. MTEG is a service that involves ACER staff working closely with each country to develop an assessment program that meets the country's…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Trends, Progress Monitoring, Educational Quality
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Cunningham, Alisa – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
What people know about higher education may depend on which data they look at and how they examine them. Responsible analysts should present a full picture of their sources of data and the limitations of those sources, restricting their conclusions to those that the data genuinely warrant. When new research conflicts with previous results, enough…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Data Analysis, Context Effect
Swanson, Christopher B. – Editorial Projects in Education, 2008
Graduation rates have become a prominent feature in the landscape of high school reform and within the larger world of educational policy. Studies conducted over the past several years have repeatedly demonstrated that far fewer American students are completing high school with diplomas than had previously been realized. Whereas the conventional…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Graduation Rate, Graduation, Metropolitan Areas
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Malamitsa, Katerina; Kokkotas, Panagiotis; Kasoutas, Michael – Science Education International, 2008
In contemporary academic literature and in many national curricula, there is a widespread acceptance that critical thinking should be an important dimension of Education. Teachers and researchers recognize the importance of developing students critical thinking, but there are still great difficulties in defining and assessing critical-thinking…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
This article discusses the increasing number of schools that met all of their 2004 annual achievement targets under U.S. federal law. Over half the states released at least preliminary lists of the number of schools that had made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act, based on 2003-04 test data. In general, the percentage of…
Descriptors: National Standards, Educational Improvement, Federal Legislation, Benchmarking
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Brimijoin, Kay; Marquissee, Ede; Tomlinson, Carol Ann – Educational Leadership, 2003
Asserts that collecting assessment data from students is key to shaping effective instruction. Both informal and formal data about student learning not only shape instruction but also determine its effectiveness. Contends that continuous assessment that drives curriculum is a means of enhancing student and teacher performance. (Contains seven…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment
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Maas-de Brouwer, T. A. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1986
The use of reporting final examinations in the Netherlands is described. Each October a public report is published by Cito, supplying information about the achieved level of education and describing observed psychometric qualities of the measurement instrument. General information needs are provided by the National Bureau of Statistics. (LMO)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Information Needs
Yeagley, Raymond – School Administrator, 2007
This article discusses Rochester's two academic models that offer different tools for different purposes--measuring individual learning and measuring what affects learning. The main focus of currently available growth measures is formative assessment--providing data to inform instructional planning. Value-added assessment is not a student…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Educational Indicators
Bank, Adrianne; Williams, Richard C. – 1985
This document is divided into two parts: the first presents a taxonomy of questions designed for a hypothetical computer database; the second describes the rationale for a question oriented approach to data. This taxonomy is described as a list of questions an educator might use to find out more about the achievement, attendance, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs
Levesque, Karen; Bradby, Denise; Rossi, Kristi; Teitelbaum, Peter – 1998
This book discusses how to use everyday data to create strategies for educational improvement in schools. It provides users with a process for building a performance indicator system, identifying the most important aspects of a school's innovational efforts and traps to avoid that may lead to misinterpretation of data. The introduction identifies…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
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