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Download full textWheelock, Anne – 2003
Scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests are used to select exemplary schools in Massachusetts, and the schools thus identified can receive awards from three different programs. This study examined the evidence about the use of MCAS scores to assess school quality. These three programs use MCAS to identify exemplary…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Awards, Educational Quality, Excellence in Education
Royce and Royce, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1998
Project APEX (Adult Practitioner Excellence) provided technical assistance to the Pennsylvania Department of Education in the development of a nominations form, procedures, and criteria for the new adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) practitioner excellence awards. It proposed a three-part nomination and selection system for determining…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Awards
