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Wise, Vicki L.; Wise, Steven L.; Bhola, Dennison S. – Educational Assessment, 2006
Accountability for educational quality is a priority at all levels of education. Low-stakes testing is one way to measure the quality of education that students receive and make inferences about what students know and can do. Aggregate test scores from low-stakes testing programs are suspect, however, to the degree that these scores are influenced…
Descriptors: Motivation, Scores, Test Validity, Accountability

Cizek, Gregory J.; Hirsch, Thomas; Trent, E. Roger; Crandell, Jan – Educational Assessment, 2001
Studied a policy requiring students to obtain a specified level of performance on a state's reading proficiency test. Analyses of the scores of 5,611 students show a high degree of agreement among educators' judgments and students' performance, but they also show that educators' operational definitions of adequate preparation in reading vary in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Change, Educational Policy