Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 2 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 6 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 13 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 44 |
Descriptor
Standardized Tests | 366 |
Test Results | 366 |
Testing Programs | 164 |
Achievement Tests | 157 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 150 |
Academic Achievement | 111 |
State Programs | 98 |
Testing Problems | 96 |
Scores | 86 |
Testing | 79 |
Test Interpretation | 74 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Rembowski, Mary | 4 |
Romanik, Dale | 4 |
Crowe, Kevin, Comp. | 3 |
Deeter, Thomas | 3 |
Ebel, Robert L. | 3 |
Echternacht, Gary | 3 |
Klein, Thomas W. | 3 |
Linn, Robert L. | 3 |
Mangino, Evangelina | 3 |
Ranson, James T. | 3 |
Airasian, Peter W. | 2 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 19 |
High Schools | 12 |
Higher Education | 12 |
Elementary Education | 10 |
Postsecondary Education | 8 |
Secondary Education | 7 |
Two Year Colleges | 5 |
Grade 3 | 4 |
Grade 4 | 4 |
Grade 9 | 4 |
Grade 10 | 3 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Practitioners | 28 |
Community | 9 |
Administrators | 8 |
Parents | 8 |
Policymakers | 8 |
Teachers | 8 |
Counselors | 2 |
Support Staff | 2 |
Researchers | 1 |
Students | 1 |
Location
Canada | 15 |
Florida | 12 |
California | 7 |
North Carolina | 7 |
New York | 6 |
Arizona | 5 |
Oklahoma | 4 |
Pennsylvania | 4 |
Texas | 4 |
Connecticut | 3 |
Nevada | 3 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 7 |
Education Consolidation… | 3 |
Elementary and Secondary… | 2 |
Every Student Succeeds Act… | 1 |
Hawkins Stafford Act 1988 | 1 |
National Defense Education Act | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Treekom Prommaboon; Siriluck Boongthong; Prasong Tochot; Boontawee Imboonta; Prachit Intakanok; Veena Prachagool; Prasart Nuangchalerm – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This research employed a mixed-methods approach to explore the best practices of ordinary national educational testing (O-NET) to improve the quality of basic education. The methodology was divided into four phases, the first of which was a survey and analysis of the current situation at ONET. The sample group was made up of representatives of the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests, Educational Improvement
Editorial Projects in Education, 2024
Effective assessments can illuminate strengths, pinpoint learning gaps, and better guide education. This Spotlight will help readers evaluate effective ways to offer students feedback; examine how some states are transitioning to through-year testing models; hear from educators regarding pressure for student success on standardized tests; gain…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Feedback (Response)
Jose Antonio Mola Avila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Accountability in education was implemented to improve poor learning outcomes by documenting and monitoring learning achievement results. In this process, external standardized achievement tests have played a central role, being the mechanism most frequently used to measure learning outcomes. However, several decades after its initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Accountability
Lenz, A. Stephen; Ault, Haley; Balkin, Richard S.; Barrio Minton, Casey; Erford, Bradley T.; Hays, Danica G.; Kim, Bryan S. K.; Li, Chi – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2022
In April 2021, The Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Executive Council commissioned a time-referenced task group to revise the Responsibilities of Users of Standardized Tests (RUST) Statement (3rd edition) published by the Association for Assessment in Counseling (AAC) in 2003. The task group developed a work plan to implement…
Descriptors: Responsibility, Standardized Tests, Counselor Training, Ethics
Bruno, Paul; Goldhaber, Dan – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
Students' performance on standardized tests is clearly predictive of their later outcomes (Goldhaber & Özek, 2019) but whether the costs of administering tests are justified by the value of the tests for improving students' outcomes is controversial. This controversy fuels heated debates over federal testing requirements, such as those…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Standardized Tests, Testing
Ediger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 2017
This article explores the question of excessive testing in public schools, its value in the educational process, and the impact that excessive testing may have on the student and the family unit. While assessments are valuable when used properly, excessive testing may lead to problems with unforeseen consequences.
Descriptors: Testing, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Test Results
Cheewasukthaworn, Kanchana – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
In 2016, the Office of the Higher Education Commission issued a directive requiring all higher education institutions in Thailand to have their students take a standardized English proficiency test. According to the directive, the test's results had to align with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In response to this…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Standardized Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Florida Department of Education, 2017
This technical assistance paper provides guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. These policies apply to the approved assessments that programs may use to report educational gains in compliance with the National Reporting System (NRS) requirements. The NRS is the accountability system for the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Assessment, Testing, Accountability
Simper, Natalie; Frank, Brian; Kaupp, Jake; Mulligan, Nerissa; Scott, Jill – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Critical thinking, problem solving and communication are fundamental elements of undergraduate education, but methods for assessing these skills across an institution are susceptible to logistical, motivational and financial issues. Queen's University conducted two research studies investigating the use of standardised tests to assess cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Undergraduate Students
Kruse, Adam J. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2016
The findings and discussions related to cultural bias in testing have in no way been unanimous. However, the considerations of this area of inquiry may possess meaningful implications for educators of any subject. In this review of literature, I describe the issues, research, and arguments surrounding cultural bias in testing and discuss…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Testing, Cultural Influences
Wiliam, Dylan – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2013
In "How Is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?" Edward Haertel has proposed a framework for thinking about the mechanisms by which testing might improve the various educational processes undertaken in schools. The framework seems to the author to be quite general (he uses the word "general" here in its mathematical sense of including all cases)…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Educational Improvement, Test Results, Test Use
Looser, Joshua – Communique, 2013
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the education system has seen immense shifts in its approach to schooling. Previously, students were taught using an extant curriculum with the instructional methods of the teachers at the school; there was little systematic modification to curriculum and methods; and the variable underlying…
Descriptors: Prevention, High Stakes Tests, Teaching Methods, Scores
Hoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination
Domaleski, Chris; Gong, Brian; Hess, Karin; Marion, Scott; Curl, Cory; Peltzman, Alissa – Achieve, Inc., 2015
Across the nation, state and local leaders have embraced two critical goals for public education: quality and equity. Students should be better prepared than they have been in the past; the goal now is for all students to graduate from high school ready for college and career. All students, regardless of race, economic background or geographic…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Student Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Lombardi, Karen Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This mixed-methods case study focuses on the third through fifth grade classrooms at a public elementary school in a Midwestern urban school district where the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment is being implemented. According to the school district, the goals of these tests are: to show…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Test Results, Testing Programs, Student Improvement