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Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2010
This handbook describes the responsibilities of district and school assessment coordinators in the administration of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). This updated guidebook contains the following sections: (1) General Assessment Guidelines for All Assessments; (2) Writing Specific Guidelines; (3) Reading and Mathematics…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Guides, Educational Assessment, Writing Tests
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Moon, Tonya R.; Hughes, Kevin R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2002
Examined a scoring anomaly that became apparent in a state-mandated writing assessment. Results for 3,660 essays by sixth graders show that using a spiral model for training raters and scoring papers results in higher mean ratings than does using a sequential model for training and scoring. Findings demonstrate the importance of making decisions…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Essay Tests, Intermediate Grades, Scoring
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 2001
This document contains released reading comprehension passages, test items, and writing prompts from the Colorado Student Assessment Program for 2001. The sample questions and prompts are included without answers or examples of student responses. Test materials are included for: (1) Grade 4 Reading and Writing; (2) Grade 4 Lectura y Escritura…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Tests, Reading Tests, Spanish
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2000
This report compares students' scores on the 2000 Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) writing assessment with the writing scores of their counterparts in 1998 and 1999. In addition, the results of a writing study are discussed briefly. Delaware students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 took the 2000 DSTP writing assessment, responding to a text-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, State Programs
Hill, Richard – 2000
This paper describes the intentions of educators and policymakers who implemented a new assessment strategy in Kentucky in 1991, along with its associated shortcomings and one notable success. The principle behind the assessment system was that rather than having an on-demand assessment that would inefficiently replicate the information that was…
Descriptors: Feedback, Portfolio Assessment, State Programs, Student Evaluation
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2002
To help teachers, administrators, and parents understand student performance in writing, a state-level report is prepared each year to analyze students writing scores and provide guidelines for the interpretation of the results. This report compares students scores on the 2001 Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) with scores on the 2000 DSTP…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, Scoring
Dulaney, Chuck; Fejoku, Caroline – 1999
Every year the state of North Carolina requires an English II writing test as part of the End of Course examinations. The purposes of the English II tests are to assess students' mastery of writing, application of grammatical skills, and achievement in literary analysis. This report contains information about the test performance of students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, English, High School Students
Gyagenda, Ismail S.; Engelhard, George, Jr. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to examine rater, domain, and gender influences on the assessed quality of student writing using weighted and unweighted scores. Twenty rates were randomly selected from a group of 87 operational raters contracted to rate essays as part of the 1993 field test of the Georgia High School Writing Test. All of the raters…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Evaluators, High School Students, High Schools
Gyagenda, Ismail S.; Engelhard, George, Jr. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to describe the Rasch model for measurement and apply the model to examine the relationship between raters, domains of written compositions, and student writing ability. Twenty raters were randomly selected from a group of 87 operational raters contracted to rate essays as part of the 1993 field test of the Georgia…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Essay Tests, Evaluators, High School Students
Wake County Public Schools System, Raleigh, NC. Dept. of Evaluation and Research. – 1999
The North Carolina Writing Assessment, which is part of the state's End-of-Grade testing program, requires students in grades 4 and 7 to write essays in response to a standardized prompt. This report contains results for the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS). Fourth grade writing assessment scores across North Carolina rose in 1999, and in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Essay Tests, Scores
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Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2002
The results in this report, from the fifth administration of the grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 reading, mathematics, and writing portions of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP), represent an important step in Delawares efforts to educate all students to a higher level. Reading, mathematics, and writing data for grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 are…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Tests, Reading Tests
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 1999
This document contains the results of a standard setting conducted between August 2 and August 12, 1999, on the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) Mathematics, Reading, and Writing subtests at grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. At the standard setting, judges were asked to recommend only the cut point between "Below the Standard" and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Judges
Taylor, Catherine S. – 1999
This document contains the technical information for the 1998 Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), Grade 4 Assessment for Reading, Mathematics, Listening, and Writing. It documents the technical quality of the assessment, including the evidence for the reliability and validity of test scores. The manual's chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Listening Skills, Mathematics Tests
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Russell, Michael; Haney, Walt – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
Summarizes recent developments in the use of technology in schools and state-level testing programs. Presents results of two studies, one with 114 students and one with about 200 students, that indicate that written tests administered on paper underestimate the achievement of students accustomed to working with computers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, High School Students, High Schools
Crehan, Kevin D.; Curfman, Mary – 1999
The effect of rapid feedback for a state writing assessment on subsequent writing performance was investigated. In addition, the agreement between teachers' scores for the state writing assessment and state department scores was analyzed. Eighth grade English teachers (n=8) were trained in analytic trait scoring of writing assessments. They then…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, English, Feedback, Junior High Schools
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