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On the Impact of Curriculum-Embedded Formative Assessment on Learning: A Collaboration between Curriculum and Assessment Developers
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Shavelson, Richard J.; Young, Donald B.; Ayala, Carlos C.; Brandon, Paul R.; Furtak, Erin Marie; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Tomita, Miki K.; Yin, Yue – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
Assessment of and for learning has occupied center stage in education reform, especially with the advent of the No Child Left Behind Federal legislation. This study examined the formative function of assessment--assessment for learning--recognizing that such assessment needs to be aligned, at least in part, with the summative function of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
Lessons Learned from the Process of Curriculum Developers' and Assessment Developers' Collaboration on the Development of Embedded Formative Assessments
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Brandon, Paul R.; Young, Donald B.; Shavelson, Richard J.; Jones, Rachael; Ayala, Carlos C.; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Yin, Yue; Tomita, Miki K.; Furtak, Erin Marie – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
Our project to embed formative student assessments in the Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching curriculum required a close collaboration between curriculum developers at the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) and assessment developers at the Stanford Educational Assessment Laboratory (SEAL). This was a new endeavor for each…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Program Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation, Cooperative Planning