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Direct linkKlingbeil, David A.; Osman, David J.; Carberry, Caroline K.; Carrigan, Jamison E.; Berry-Corie, Kimberly – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires that states make efforts to offer statewide achievement tests in languages, other than English, that are present to a significant extent in the state. Currently, four states offer Spanish reading or language arts assessments as part of their statewide testing program. In these states, practitioners may be…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, State Programs, Testing Programs, Reading Achievement
PDF pending restorationDelaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2000
This report presents the results of the third administration of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP). These results are part of a long-term effort to gather data on the educational progress of Delaware students and to use the data to inform decisions about instruction. Reading, writing, and mathematics results are summarized in this report;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
Download full textPennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Curriculum and Academic Services. – 2000
This document contains materials directly related to the actual reading test of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), including the reading rubric, released passages, selected-response questions with answer keys, performance tasks, and scored samples of students' responses to the tasks. All of these items may be duplicated to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Dulaney, Chuck; Burch, Glenda – 2001
This report presents the results of Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) students on the North Carolina End-of-Grade (EOG) multiple-choice tests from May and June 2001. The EOG tests have several components, but all are designed to measure student achievement of the knowledge and skills of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Achievement
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1983
The Kansas Minimum Competency Testing Program is designed to provide the public, the Kansas State Board of Education, and the Kansas legislature with descriptive profiles of student performance relative to minimum competencies in reading and mathematics. Results of the 1982-83 assessment are presented in this report. Included are overall test…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. – 1998
The standards presented in this book, for reading, writing, and mathematics, are those that will be initially assessed by Arizona's Instrument To Measure Standards (AIMS). These standards and those for other content areas will be a road map for education in Arizona. A statewide test is being developed for each of these areas to measure student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement
Management and Evaluation Associates, Highstown, NJ. – 1988
This report is designed to provide New Jersey Congressional legislators with current information on the effectiveness of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) Chapter 1 Program in New Jersey. Data on the reading and mathematics performance of ECIA Chapter 1 students in grades 2 through 8 from participating districts were…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Yen, Shu Jing; Bene, Nancy; Huynh, Huynh – 2000
Content integration in performance assessment involves mixing different areas of knowledge in one assessment. In this type of testing situation, assessment tasks are designed to measure the ability of students to solve problems by applying their knowledge and skills in multiple content areas. This study examined the effect of integrated science…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Performance Based Assessment, Reading Achievement
Linton, Thomas H.; Kester, Donald – 2003
This study was conducted to determine whether norm-referenced test data and Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) data from 1995 and 1999 showed similar gains in reading and mathematics achievement. TAAS data were collected from all students in Texas who were in the accountability subset of scores used for rating schools, approximately…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, High Stakes Tests
Kupermintz, Haggai – 2002
This report reanalyzes test score data from Florida public schools in the context of determining the effects of vouchers on student performance. In response to a recent report from the Manhattan Institute, An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program, by J. P. Greene, 2001, it offers a different perspective and an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Gains, Educational Vouchers
Fouts, Jeffrey T. – 2002
This study used Washington state school district identification numbers to follow the progress of 14,860 fourth graders (in 1998) and 12,827 seventh graders (in 1998) for 3 years. The inauguration of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) made it possible to track individual student academic performance and examine the consequences…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Ethnicity
Kansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1979
The activities and results of the first year of a two-year student assessment pilot program are described, based on a 1978 mandate by the Kansas Legislature requiring the development of minimum competency objectives in the areas of reading and mathematics for students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, and 11 and instruments for assessing those competencies.…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1980
The results of the 1977 and 1979 Statewide Assessment Tests in Alaska are presented. This assessment testing is part of the testing component within the Alaska Statewide Instructional Support System (SISS), and is based on specific objectives critical to a student's academic success. Objectives covered are: mathematics computation, mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Curriculum and Academic Services. – 2000
Beginning in 1999, all of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) had to be aligned with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards. This handbook describes the PSSA reading assessment. It contains samples and instructions for developing assessment items for grades 5, 8, and 11. Although designed for teachers, the Handbook is meant to be a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Reading Achievement
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1999
Beginning in the 1992-93 school year, the North Carolina State Board of Education authorized administration of North Carolina-developed end-of-grade tests aligned with the state's "Standard Course of Study." These state-normed tests were administered to more than 568,000 students in grades 3 through 8 in 1998-99. End-of-course tests were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts
