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Download full textAnderson, Judith I. – 1991
In response to growing frustration over the lack of information about the national effectiveness of the Chapter 1 program, Congress enacted the Education Amendments of 1974. Section 151 of the Amendments directed the U.S. Office of Education to develop evaluation models that would allow school district data to be aggregated to provide national…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores
Developing Item Bank Based Achievement Tests and Curriculum-Based Measures: Lessons Learned Enroute.
Mengel, Bill E.; Schorr, Larry L. – 1992
The experience of the Colorado Springs (Colorado) Public Schools (CSPS) in using different assessment forms for different purposes is detailed. A small niche is reserved for national norm-referenced testing to fill the state achievement testing mandate and for Chapter 1 accountability. A second, and larger, part of the assessment program will be…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment
