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Jeremy Wayne Tate – American Enterprise Institute, 2024
A January 2024 survey found that 72 percent of parents had considered a new school for their children in the past year. And in 2025, Texas and Tennessee are poised to become the next states to enact education savings account (ESA) programs, potentially giving millions more students the education options that their parents want for them. As a…
Descriptors: School Choice, College Choice, Alternative Assessment, Standardized Tests
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2024
How do attitudes and beliefs about assessment affect teaching and learning in your school? This document is intended to help school and district leaders understand these dynamics. While it is not designed for use as a step-by-step toolkit to support evaluation, this document does provide a foundation for leaders to learn more about their school or…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Board of Education Policy
Suskind, Dorothy C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The author, a 5th-grade teacher at an independent boys' school, gives a first-person account of how her constant assessments and requirement that her students be active participants in their own learning gainsays the need for high-stakes, standardized testing. She posits a "living assessment" that is intertwined, interactive and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Active Learning, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
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Cawthon, Stephanie – American Annals of the Deaf, 2015
Designing assessments and tests is one of the more challenging aspects of creating an accessible learning environment for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), particularly for deaf students with a disability (DWD). Standardized assessments are a key mechanism by which the educational system in the United States measures student…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Standardized Tests, Student Characteristics
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Duckor, Brent; Perlstein, Daniel – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Educational researchers and policymakers have often lamented the failure of teachers to implement what they consider to be technically sound assessment procedures. In recent years, the belief that teachers are unwilling or unable to implement appropriate assessment procedures has contributed to the rapid expansion of high…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
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Ohanian, Susan – Language Arts, 2009
This article demonstrates, through stories of Ohanian's teaching, journalism experience, and analysis of testing items and outcomes, that we have every right and obligation to challenge institutionalized norms that shape today's views of assessment practices.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Accountability, Testing
Engel, Monica; Pulley, Ronda; Rybinski, Amanda – 2003
A program was designed, as an action research project, to increase the retention of information through the use of alternative methods of instruction. The targeted population consisted of primary and intermediate students in a community in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. There had been a decline in standardized test scores, the increasing pressure…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Plitt, Bill – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
Teachers face at least two dilemmas in our work to meet the academic needs of our students. The first dilemma is how to prepare our students to pass state-mandated tests without driving them away, given that many already see school as a place where they fail. The traditional "drill and practice" approach to remediation for low-performing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, High Risk Students, Writing Ability, Standardized Tests
Rosenshine, Barak; Meister, Carla E. – 1993
Since the introduction of the concept of reciprocal teaching by A. S. Palincsar and A. L. Brown in 1984, researchers have conducted a number of studies that attempted to replicate and/or extend the original one. A review was conducted of 19 studies that used reciprocal teaching to help students improve their ability to comprehend text. The review…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Literature Reviews
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Zimmerman, Enid – Art Education, 1992
Compares the use of standardized tests and authentic assessment to measure student progress and achievement in art education. Reviews a variety of authentic assessment models and techniques. Concludes that authentic assessment is a powerful measure of student achievement and teaching effectiveness. (CFR)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Alternative Assessment, Art Education, Cultural Pluralism
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National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 1993
Four papers follow and document the progress of the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing in understanding questions related to alternative assessment based on case studies in three elementary schools. The research questions include consideration of the logistical constraints that must be respected in developing…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques