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Direct linkFarmer, Cristan A.; Kaat, Aaron J.; Thurm, Audrey; Anselm, Irina; Akshoomoff, Natacha; Bennett, Amanda; Berry, Leandra; Bruchey, Aleksandra; Barshop, Bruce A.; Berry-Kravis, Elizabeth; Bianconi, Simona; Cecil, Kim M.; Davis, Robert J.; Ficicioglu, Can; Porter, Forbes D.; Wainer, Allison; Goin-Kochel, Robin P.; Leonczyk, Caroline; Guthrie, Whitney; Koeberl, Dwight; Love-Nichols, Jamie; Mamak, Eva; Mercimek-Andrews, Saadet; Thomas, Rebecca P.; Spiridigliozzi, Gail A.; Sullivan, Nancy; Sutton, Vernon R.; Udhnani, Manisha D.; Waisbren, Susan E.; Miller, Judith S. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Although norm-referenced scores are essential to the identification of disability, they possess several features which affect their sensitivity to change. Norm-referenced scores often decrease over time among people with neurodevelopmental disorders who exhibit slower-than-average increases in ability. Further, the reliability of norm-referenced…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Norm Referenced Tests, Scores, Ability
W. James Popham; David C. Berliner; Neal M. Kingston; Susan H. Fuhrman; Steven M. Ladd; Jeffrey Charbonneau; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: Against a backdrop of high-stakes assessment policies in the USA, this paper explores the challenges, promises and the "state of the art" with regard to designing standardized achievement tests and educational assessment systems that are instructionally useful. Authors deliberate on the consequences of using inappropriately…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Student Evaluation, Achievement Tests
Luxford, Cynthia J.; Linenberger, Kimberly J.; Raker, Jeffrey R.; Baluyut, John Y.; Reed, Jessica J.; De Silva, Chamila; Holme, Thomas A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
As a discipline, chemistry enjoys a unique position. While many academic areas prepared "cooperative examinations" in the 1930s, only chemistry maintained the activity within what has become the ACS Examinations Institute. As a result, the long-term existence of community-built, norm-referenced, standardized exams provides a historical…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Tests, Database Design, Norm Referenced Tests
Download full textSkinner, Rebecca R.; Lomax, Erin – Congressional Research Service, 2017
Federal education legislation continues to emphasize the role of assessment in elementary and secondary schools. Perhaps most prominently, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; P.L. 114-95), requires the use of test-based educational accountability systems in states and specifies the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Lyons, Douglas; Niblock, Andrew W. – Independent School, 2014
Independent schools are, for the most part, exempt from mandatory participation in standardized tests designed for state and federal comparisons, nor are they required to take part in comparative international assessments. The anxiety in the broader culture, however, is driving a growing interest among independent school parents (and prospective…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Practices
Murphy, Kristen; Holme, Thomas; Zenisky, April; Caruthers, Heather; Knaus, Karen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
The ability to coherently assess content knowledge throughout an entire undergraduate career represents a significant advantage for programmatic assessment strategies. Chemistry, as a discipline, has an unusual tool in this regard because of the nationally standardized exams from the ACS Exams Institute. These exams are norm-referenced and allow…
Descriptors: College Science, Chemistry, Undergraduate Study, Scientific Concepts
Van Beek, Michael; Bowen, Daniel; Mills, Jonathan – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2012
Assessing a high school's effectiveness is not straightforward. Comparing a school's standardized test scores to those of other schools is one approach to measuring effectiveness, but a major objection to this method is that students' test scores tend to be related to students' "socioeconomic" status--family household income, for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Lunch Programs, Income
Buddy, Juanita – School Library Monthly, 2009
Among the five roles--leader, instructional partner, information specialist, teacher, and, program administrator--identified for the school librarian in "Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs" (AASL, 2009), the role of teacher is critical for improving student achievement. The school librarian is uniquely positioned in…
Descriptors: Test Results, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, School Libraries
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2009
As the recession crimps education budgets, states are beginning to pare the number of standardized tests they give, particularly those that no longer factor into state or federal accountability decisions. At the district level, though, it's a different story. Despite pressure not to cut staffing and programs, many districts are preserving local…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Testing, Educational Finance, Standardized Tests
Dennis, Danielle V. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
More and more, data from standardized assessments are being used to make instructional decisions for struggling middle school readers. Administrators must stop spending money on "silver-bullet" curriculum programs and start spending money on training opportunities that will lead to autonomy and creativity in the classroom. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Opportunities, Reading Instruction, Student Experience
Oakleaf, Megan – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
The culture of assessment in higher education requires academic librarians to demonstrate the impact of information literacy instruction on student learning. As a result, many librarians seek to gain knowledge about the information literacy assessment approaches available to them. This article identifies three major assessment approaches: (1)…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Librarians, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
Trousdale, Donna; Penuel, William R.; Khanna, Ritu – 1999
This paper examines the different strategies used to argue for and against testing of English Language Learners (ELL) in California. The study arose from protests directed at a California law requiring that a norm-referenced achievement test be used to assess school children on their mastery of basic skills. The paper describes the different uses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Equal Education, Language of Instruction
Kean, Michael H. – School Administrator, 1996
Kentucky is reintroducing the norm-referenced, multiple-choice test. Students will be given both performance and multiple-choice tests, beginning in spring 1997. Kean believes this multiple-measures approach is a common-sense way to provide the measurement-driven accountability that most states require. Neill deplores multiple-choice testing and…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Norm Referenced Tests
Maeroff, Gene I. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
For all its attractiveness, alternative assessment is fraught with complications and difficulties, as Rhode Island's experience shows. Although alternative assessment can be systematic, there are no ways to rate large numbers of performance-based tasks, portfolios, interviews, exhibits, or essays. Some standardization is necessary, and assessment…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Norm Referenced Tests
