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Download full textNew York State Education Department, 2023
The instructions in this manual explain the responsibilities of school administrators for the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Tests. School administrators must be thoroughly familiar with the contents of the manual, and the policies and procedures must be followed as written so that testing…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
New York State Education Department, 2022
The instructions in this manual explain the responsibilities of school administrators for the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Paper-Based Field Tests. School administrators must be thoroughly familiar with the contents of the manual, and the policies and procedures must be followed as written…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
New York State Education Department, 2022
The instructions in this manual explain the responsibilities of school administrators for the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Field Tests, and the Elementary-level (Grade 5) and Intermediate-level (Grade 8) Science Field Tests. School administrators must be thoroughly familiar with the…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
New York State Education Department, 2021
The instructions in this manual explain the responsibilities of school administrators for the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Tests. School administrators must be thoroughly familiar with the contents of the manual, and the policies and procedures must be followed as written so that testing…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
New York State Education Department, 2020
The instructions in this manual explain the responsibilities of school administrators for the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Tests. School administrators must be thoroughly familiar with the contents of the manual, and the policies and procedures must be followed as written so that testing…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
New York State Education Department, 2019
The instructions in this manual explain the responsibilities of school administrators for the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Tests. School administrators must be thoroughly familiar with the contents of the manual and the policies and procedures must be followed as written so that testing…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
New York State Education Department, 2014
This technical report provides an overview of the New York State Alternate Assessment (NYSAA), including a description of the purpose of the NYSAA, the processes utilized to develop and implement the NYSAA program, and Stakeholder involvement in those processes. The purpose of this report is to document the technical aspects of the 2013-14 NYSAA.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, State Departments of Education, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedPomplun, Mark; Omar, Md Hafidz – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
Four threats to validity of an alternative objective test item format, the multiple-mark format, were studied with data from a state-mandated assessment with about 30,000 students at each of three grade levels. Reliability and validity coefficients show that the format has promise as an objective format that can be aligned with new curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Objective Tests
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1996
The North Carolina End-of-Grade Testing Program is based on the assessment of higher level skills in the context of specific subject-area content. These tests inform students, parents, the community, and educators about the achievement of North Carolina students in grades three through eight in given areas. This report describes the development…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Tests
Warshavsky, Belle – 1975
The concurrent validity of the third grade, New York State Pupil Evaluation Reading Program (PEP) reading test was examined with the following standardized tests: the Durrell Silent Reading Test, the Gilmore Oral Reading Test, the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), the Verbal IQ of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cloze Procedure, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Research. – 1988
This paper describes the characteristics of the Minimum Skills Diagnostic Tests (MSDTs) components of the statewide testing program in North Carolina. The MSDTs' validity, method for deriving test scores, reliability and other statistics, test content, and test norms are discussed. These tests--given in grades 3, 6, and 8--assess an individual's…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Gearhart, Maryl; Novak, John R.; Herman, Joan L. – 1994
Technical questions regarding the reliability and validity of large-scale portfolio assessment were studied which focused on: (1) whether raters can score collections of writing reliably with rubrics designed for single samples; (2) whether ratings derived from different frameworks differ in their capacities to support technically sound…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Essay Tests
Peer reviewedOlsen, James B.; And Others – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990
The development, school district implementation, and initial validation of the Wicat Skills Assessment Test--a computerized testing system for state assessment objectives--are described. Testing with 10,000 students in grades 3, 5, 7, and 9 began in Texas in 1986-87 and 1987-88. Results support the feasibility for districtwide computerized…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Goodison, Jules – 1989
The data collection process is described for a new facet of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)--the state-level assessment of eighth-grade mathematics in 1990 and 1992 to determine the feasibility and validity of state assessments. For this Trial State Assessment, the NAEP will work with a State Coordinator from each of the 41…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Role, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Schattgen, Sharon; And Others – 1989
This paper describes a model for the evaluation and approval of a test battery for compliance with a midwestern state law mandating criterion-referenced testing of specific objectives. Standards specifying that the test scores must demonstrate content validity and criterion-related validity form the foundation of the model. The model also…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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