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Download full textNational Assessment Governing Board, 2013
To what extent can young people analyze the pros and cons of a proposal to develop a new source of energy? Construct and test a model or prototype? Use the Internet to find and summarize data and information in order to solve a problem or achieve a goal? The exploding growth in the world of technology and the need to answer questions similar to…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Information Technology, Engineering
Direct linkViadero, Debra – Education Week, 2006
When education researchers want to measure the collective poverty level in a school, they typically use the same yardstick: the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced rate meals under the federal school lunch program. But dissatisfaction with that indicator is prompting some researchers to cast about for better ways to gauge the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, School Choice, Poverty
Peer reviewedvan der Linden, Wim J.; Veldkamp, Bernard P.; Carlson, James E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2004
A popular design in large-scale educational assessments as well as any other type of survey is the balanced incomplete block design. The design is based on an item pool split into a set of blocks of items that are assigned to sets of "assessment booklets." This article shows how the problem of calculating an optimal balanced incomplete block…
Descriptors: Grade 8, National Competency Tests, Item Banks, Research Design
Neidorf, Teresa Smith; Binkley, Marilyn; Stephens, Maria – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This technical report describes a study that was undertaken to compare the content of two recent fourth-and eighth-grade assessments in science: the NAEP 2000 assessment and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 assessment. Its aim is to provide information that will be useful for interpreting and comparing the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 8, National Competency Tests
Resnick, Lauren – 1994
This article explores issues involved in using assessments as a means of defining standards and encouraging efforts to meet them. It compares the European examination system with the present American testing system. It also considers issues that must be faced in defining learning domains in ways that do not encourage narrowly focused training on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Educational Assessment
Fleming, Dan B. – 1974
In this paper, the author reviews a number of criticisms that have been made of the use of standardized tests in the social studies and reviews 11 general, skills, and discipline-oriented standardized tests for social studies. Standardized tests evaluating the results of the new social studies courses are open to criticism on the basis of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, National Competency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Andrew, Barbara J.; And Others – 1976
This report of the development and validation of a criterion-referenced examination for physician's assistants contains an overview of phase 1 project activities (1972-74) and more detailed description and data on phase 2 activities (1975-76). The overview describes the rationale for the development of the examination. (It was the first certifying…
Descriptors: Certification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence
Croft, Cedric – 1993
Standards-based assessment, or at least the concept of standards-based assessment, will provide a key strategy for the implementation of the New Zealand National Qualifications Framework. This paper considers the meaning of standards-based assessment and its role in New Zealand's assessment for nationally recognized qualifications. Standards-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Kane, Michael – 1993
The National Academy of Education (NAE) Panel has drawn two major conclusions in its evaluation of the National Assessment Governing Board's (NAGB) efforts to set achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). They are that the Angoff procedure is fundamentally flawed for the setting of achievement levels, and that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Educational Policy
Crane, Robert; Hulsart, Richard – 1975
"The Politics and Process of Evaluation and Decision Making in the Schools: The Shawnee Mission, Kansas, Experience" and "Use of National Assessment Model for Classroom Evaluation" were two papers presented at the Regional Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. The first paper concerned the development of an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Evaluation
Kang, Gyenam Kim; Lee, Yeounwoo – 1994
The Korean Society for Educational Evaluation is described, and the national college entrance examination used in Korea is discussed. The Korean Society for Educational Evaluation exists to promote exchange of academic information among members on measurement, statistics, research methodologies, and evaluation. The Society publishes a journal and…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Admission (School), Centralization
Austin, Neale W. – 1969
Emphasized in this speech are the innovative practices in the standardized foreign language testing programs sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). The CEEB projected listening and reading "composite tests" and changes in the French and Latin Advanced Placement Tests are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement, College Students, Educational Innovation
High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Does Accountability Pressure Increase Student Learning?
Nichols, Sharon L.; Glass, Gene V.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
This study examined the relationship between high-stakes testing pressure and student achievement across 25 states. Standardized portfolios were created for each study state. Each portfolio contained a range of documents that told the "story" of accountability implementation and impact in that state. Using the "law of comparative…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests
