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Frans, Niek; Post, W. J.; Oenema-Mostert, C. E.; Minnaert, A. E. M. G. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2020
Standardised tests play an important role in early childhood (EC) education in many countries. Although teachers' conceptions largely determine whether and how these instruments are used, research on this topic is scarce. As a result, factors that influence conceptions of standardised testing have remained largely unexplored. To examine teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, Standardized Tests
Moss, Gemma – Institute of Education - London, 2020
This briefing note considers the place for statutory testing in primary schools during 2020-21, in the light of the COVID crisis. The English system of primary statutory assessment, culminating in SATs tests in Year 6, was suspended during the 2020 lockdown. Yet many questions remain about how primary assessment should resume, given that COVID-19…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Students, School Closing
Sabol, F. Robert – National Art Education Association, 2018
This White Paper provides a selection of some general principles of assessment or overarching ideas that may guide educators in selecting, developing, and implementing assessments of students' learning at all instructional levels or educational settings in which they are used. These principles represent a framework for understanding the nature of…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Educational Principles, Student Evaluation
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Briggs, Derek C. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
In the United States, students have historically taken large-scale assessments for many different purposes. One purpose that is shared with many other countries is a desire to monitor aggregate trends in educational attainment in core subject domains such as literacy, mathematics, and science. In this commentary, the author examines testing,…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Learning, Psychometrics
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American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2014
Developed jointly by the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" (Revised 2014) addresses professional and technical issues of test development and use in education, psychology, and…
Descriptors: Standards, Educational Testing, Psychological Testing, Test Construction
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Popham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2004
The importance of educational accountability and assessment literacy is recognized as a long-term challenge to the educational system. The complexities in becoming an assessment literate and provide an opportunity to the educators to display their effective learning is discussed.
Descriptors: Accountability, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Testing
Betebenner, Damian; Howe, Ken – 2001
This study was commissioned to investigate issues related to the inclusion of the American College Testing Program (ACT) assessment within the Colorado State Assessment Program (CSAP). Analyses were carried out using assessment materials, assessment results, and various data from the ACT and the Colorado State Department of Education. One focus of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, College Entrance Examinations, High Schools
Horm-Wingerd, Diane M.; Winter, Phoebe C.; Plofchan, Paula – 2000
The purpose of this paper is twofold: to review appropriate assessment techniques in prekindergarten through grade 3 settings and to serve as a catalyst for further discussion and work on the topic of developmentally appropriate accountability assessment. The discussion is based on the thesis that developmentally appropriate assessment and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Primary Education
Linn, Robert L. – 1998
Uses of tests and assessments as key elements in 5 waves of educational reform during the past 50 years are reviewed. These waves include the role of tests in tracking and selection emphasized in the 1950s, the use of tests for program accountability in the 1960s, minimum competency testing programs of the 1970s, school and district accountability…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Afflerbach, Peter – Journal of Literacy Research, 2005
This National Reading Conference Policy Brief provides information related to high stakes reading tests and reading assessment. High stakes reading tests are those with highly consequential outcomes for students, teachers, and schools. These outcomes may include student promotion or retention, student placement in reading groups, school funding…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Accountability
McNeil, Linda; Valenzuela, Angela – 2000
Drawing on the collective experience of the researchers, their work with teachers and principals, and their previous research in urban schools where students are predominantly Mexican American, this essay outlines the ways in which the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) harms the educational quality and opportunity of minority,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, High Schools
Swisher, Judith D.; Green, Samuel B.; Tollefson, Nona – 1999
The focus of this research was to examine the perceived effectiveness of the Practical Assessment Exploration System (PAES) (J. Swisher, 1987) for making educational decisions at the instructional program level for students with disabilities across groups of teachers who have various levels of familiarity with the PAES. The PAES is a functional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Disabilities, Secondary Education
McDonnell, Lorraine M. – 1994
The gap between policymaker enthusiasm for the uses of student assessment and expert caution is analyzed by examining new forms of student assessment as an education policy strategy. The study is based on interviews with 34 national and state policymakers and focuses on their differing expectations of what assessment policy can accomplish and how…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Sacks, Peter – 1999
This book examines the unhealthy and enduring obsession with standardized testing in the United States and how this tool of the meritocracy affects all U.S. residents, from kindergarten to job seeking. Why standardized testing continues to dominate the educational system is explored, as is why standardized testing is such a pervasive influence in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Smith, Mary Lee – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
The theory, presented by Ginsberg (TM 508 964), that quantitative indicators are likely to be corrupted when used for purposes of accountability is supported by the results of the Learning Disabilities Identification Study. The quantitative indicator in this case had to do with selection of pupils eligible for services for the handicapped. (BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
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