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Plank, Stephen; Welch, Matthew; Espinoza, Alicia; Johnston, Will Tad; Burns, Mary Bridget; Atupem, George; Lennon, Victoria; Fireside, Douglas – Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2021
This report presents an overview of the history, collective learning, and concluding products of a networked improvement community (NIC) that operated and evolved between 2017 and 2021: the Student-Centered Assessment Network (SCAN). SCAN comprised a group of teachers from three Rhode Island high schools; a coordinating team of researchers,…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Student Evaluation, High School Teachers, Communities of Practice
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Phelan, Julia; Kang, Taehoon; Niemi, David N.; Vendlinski, Terry; Choi, Kilchan – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
While research suggests that formative assessment can be a powerful tool to support teaching and learning, efforts to jump on the formative assessment bandwagon have been more widespread than those to assure the technical quality of the assessments. This report covers initial analyses of data bearing on the quality of formative assessments in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Test Format, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Looney, Janet W. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
A long-held ambition for many educators and assessment experts has been to integrate summative and formative assessments so that data from external assessments used for system monitoring may also be used to shape teaching and learning in classrooms. In turn, classroom-based assessments may provide valuable data for decision makers at school and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Formative Evaluation, Testing, Summative Evaluation
Baker, Eva L. – Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004
The goal of scaling up of educational innovation is to produce robust, effective, replicable outcomes. This report addresses requirements to support scale-up of scientifically vetted innovation (or new ideas that are built on the findings of quality research and development). In this report, a number of issues are considered: the context of…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Scientific Research, Evaluation Methods, Research Design
Hayward, Louise; Simpson, Mary – School Field, 1998
For formative assessment to raise academic standards in Scotland, three advances are required: investment in research and development to exploit new possibilities for developing pupils' learning potential; development work with teachers to change understandings and roles; and public and political action to establish system contexts and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2005
For the twenty-eighth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Word Problems (Mathematics)