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Download full textBeaton, Albert E.; Linn, Robert L.; Bohrnstedt, George W. – American Institutes for Research, 2012
The judgmental approaches used by the Governing Board to set National Assessment of Educational Progress achievement levels have been the subject of a great deal of controversy and have sometimes led to results that were considered "unreasonable." The NCES requirement that the achievement levels be used on a trial basis and be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests, Benchmarking, Performance Based Assessment
Linn, Robert L. – 1987
When the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was designed 20 years ago, comparisons among individual states or localities were not deemed desirable. Today, this lack of information to allow comparison is judged to be a serious weakness of the NAEP, and ways to allow comparisons are actively sought. The focus of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Content Validity, Educational Assessment
Linn, Robert L.; Gronlund, Norman E. – 2000
This book is intended to introduce the classroom teacher and prospective teacher to the elements of measurement and assessment that are essential to good teaching. The main theme is that assessment plays an important role in the instructional process. This edition has been revised to reflect major changes in educational assessment since the last…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1993
Current national efforts to expand the role of educational assessment and change the nature of assessments are discussed. Rationales for expectations that a new national examination would spur educational reform are analyzed; and the challenges of performance-based assessment, particularly in its validation, are examined. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Linn, Robert L. – 1993
Current national efforts to expand the role of educational assessment and radically change the nature of assessment are discussed. Rationales for expectations that a new national examination system would serve as a lever of educational reform are analyzed. Challenges posed for educational measurement by the proposed heavy reliance on complex,…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L.; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1991
Increasing emphasis on assessment and concern about assessment techniques have stirred interest in alternative assessment forms, for which evidence is needed about consequences, transfer of performance on specific assessment tests, and assessment fairness. Criteria concerning consequences, fairness, transfer-generalizability, cognitive complexity,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
