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Download full textLam, Tony C. M. – 1995
Performance assessment is a type of educational assessment in which judgments are made about student knowledge and skills based on observation of student behavior or inspection of student products. In dealing with the issue of fairness in performance assessment, educators are confronted with some dilemmas. Assuring equality in performance…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Performance Factors
Tucker, James A. – 1980
The paper provides a framework for a nonbiased placement system for students with suspected handicapping conditions. The suggested approach is designed to help school districts determine whether the appraisal system is contributing to the disproportionate placement of minority group students in special education classes. Nineteen steps in the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs, Mainstreaming
Bordeaux, Roger – 1995
This digest examines the use of standardized, nationally normed testing in assessing the progress of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students and describes alternative forms of assessment. For years, researchers have criticized the overuse of standardized, nationally normed tests to assess learner and school success. Problems with such…
Descriptors: Achievement, Alaska Natives, Alternative Assessment, American Indian Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1989
This research summary identifies major factors affecting the validity of language assessments in bilingual students. The four factors include: (1) determining which language is dominant and in which language the child should be tested; (2) recognizing that bilingual children may use language in a way that is qualitatively different from that of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Ascher, Carol – 1990
Performance-based assessment has the potential to support a richer curriculum and more accurately assess the skills of low-income minority students than standardized tests. Performance-based assessment has the following advantages: (1) it allows a wide range of expression; (2) it permits assessment of learning in a natural context while students…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Valdivia, Rebeca – 1999
This Digest discusses cultural influences that may lead to the inappropriate diagnosis of a young student as developmentally delayed, and the need to use assessment instruments that are appropriate for use with culturally and linguistically diverse families. In order to determine the appropriateness of norm-referenced instruments for children from…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Developmental Delays
