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Download full textUS Department of Education, 2012
Schools are facing tight budget times that call for doing more with less and finding ways to innovate, increase efficiency and effectiveness, and accelerate reform. At the top of the ideas for increasing productivity is moving ahead with efforts to personalize learning, leaving behind an instructional system modeled on the American factory of the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Educational Change, Competency Based Education
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2008
There is a growing consensus among educators and the general public that technology should play a more integral role in students' education. However, the question of whether the introduction of technology into the classroom has a positive impact on teaching and learning is still under intense debate within the educational community. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Computer Uses in Education
PDF pending restorationMcCarson, Carole S. – 1983
The Atlanta Public Schools administers a systemwide achievement testing program annually to assess the academic progress of students enrolled in kindergarten through the eleventh grades. The California Achievement Tests (CAT) were adopted in 1980 for that purpose. The results of the 1983 administration of the CAT are reported in this document. A…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Persons, School Districts
Dunkelberger, John E.; Soderberg, Mary A. – 1980
In order to investigate the relationship between 7 school system characteristics and student achievement test scores in the 45 metropolitan and 82 nonmetropolitan Alabama school systems, 1979 California Achievement Test combined battery scores for 8th and 12th grade students attending each system in the state were analyzed. For both metropolitan…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Black Students, County School Districts
PDF pending restorationAtlanta Public Schools, GA. Div. of Research, Evaluation, and Data Processing. – 1982
The Atlanta Public Schools administer a systemwide achievement testing program annually to assess the academic progress of students enrolled in kindergarten through the eleventh grades. The 1981 administration of the California Achievement Tests revealed evidence that test-level assignments have improved. The regular education students were tested…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
Irving Independent School District, TX. – 1986
The results are presented of district-wide standardized testing in the Irving (Texas) Independent School District for the 1985-86 school year. This was the first year in which the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was implemented. It was administered to students in odd-numbered grades, whereas all other students took the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Local Norms
Hall, Janie L. – 1985
The California Achievement Test was given each Spring, 1981-1985, to all students in grades kindergarten through 11 in the Oklahoma City Public Schools. The results in reading and mathematics were interpreted in relation to: (1) national norms and point-in-time scores; (2) local students in the same grade in previous years; and (3) gain (or loss),…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Norms, Mathematics Tests
Atlanta Public Schools, GA. Div. of Research, Evaluation, and Data Processing. – 1982
This document reports on the procedures and results of the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) testing program in changing from the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), administered to grades 1 through 7 from 1973-79, to the California Achievement Tests (CAT), Form C, administered in Spring 1980 to provide a continuous testing program from the elementary…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Mathematics Achievement
Peer reviewedMarks, Daniel – Journal of Educational Research, 1990
This study attempts to detect the presence of either of 2 different categories of large-scale bias in 4 widely used mathematics achievement tests: induced bias and norming bias. Subjects were 407 eighth graders. (IAH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Evaluating School Effectiveness in an Urban School District: Promises, Problems, and New Directions.
Fortenberry, Robert N.; And Others – 1988
About 30,000 students in Grades 1 through 12 in Jackson, Mississippi, were studied to determine the effectiveness of instruction for all major social groups represented by the student population during the 1986-87 school year. The California Achievement Test and course grades were used to obtain core data. Demographic data were obtained for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Neal, Sandra W. – 1984
To compile information on state and school district standardized testing programs, a survey instrument was designed and sent to 135 members of the National Association of Test Directors (NATD). Seventy responses (52%) were received in time to be included in the compilation. Most participating school districts (n=61, 87%) had a program mandated by…
Descriptors: Charts, Elementary Secondary Education, Norm Referenced Tests, School Districts
Brunton, Max L. – 1982
Parkrose (Oregon) School District 3 became involved in standards of competence in 1978 when the Oregon State Board of Education adopted standards requiring high school students to demonstrate competency skills to graduate. The California Achievement Test has been administered to Parkrose tenth graders each fall since 1974 when students scored…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Grade 10, High Schools, Longitudinal Studies
Myerberg, N. James; Splaine, Pam – 1983
During the 1982-83 school year, the California Achievement Test (CAT) was administered to students attending Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) in grades 3,5,8 and 11. This report describes and displays the county-wide and school test results which are further broken down by racial/ethnic group and sex. An analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment
Brooks, Margaret G. – 1987
Results are presented for the 1985-86 administration of achievement tests in the Atlanta (Georgia) Public Schools. The following norm-referenced, standardized tests were administered: California Achievement Tests (CAT) in kindergarten; Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) in grades 1 to 8; and Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) in grades 9 to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Norms
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Research. – 1984
In April of each year, North Carolina students in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 9th grades participate in the state's Annual Testing Program. In 1984, the California Achievement Tests in reading, mathematics, language, and spelling were administered. This publication reports student performance for years 1981 through 1984. The body of the report is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
