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Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1991
Information about education in Oklahoma beginning with the 1989-90 school year and continuing through December of 1990 is presented in a concise and usable format. This document is an overview of information useful to the public. Sections include: (1) common education recognitions and achievements; (2) 1990 school legislation; (3) educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education
Bauer, Sally; And Others – 1990
The perceptions of elementary school teachers toward the initiation of the New York State program evaluation tests (PETs) in science and social studies were studied. In New York, the PETs are intended to assess the local instructional program, rather than evaluate students. The social studies (grade 6) and science (grade 4) PETs were implemented…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers
Download full textArchbald, 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
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1995
This paper extends a series of studies examining school district report cards, which began with investigations of Tennessee's report card data. Since 1988, the Texas State Board of Education has produced a report card on each school district to report district-level data. Texas district report card items were organized into student outcome…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, College Entrance Examinations, Demography
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1994
This paper presents the latest in a series of studies examining school district report cards for their usefulness planning and implementing school improvement. The 1992-93 Arkansas report cards were studied. These were similar to the report cards from Tennessee that were the subject of the initial study in that they used and reported a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, College Entrance Examinations
