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Direct linkLesaux, Nonie K.; Marietta, Sky H. – Guilford Publications, 2011
All too often, literacy assessments are given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise book shows K-5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction.…
Descriptors: Test Results, Second Language Learning, Accountability, Individualized Instruction
Matthews, Jan; Trimble, Susan; Gay, Anne – Principal Leadership, 2007
Using data to redesign instruction is a means of increasing student achievement. Educators in Camden County (Georgia) Schools have used data from benchmark testing since 1999. They hired a commercial vendor to design a benchmark test that is administered four times a year and use the data to generate subject-area reports that can be further…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Teacher Leadership, Student Evaluation, Instructional Leadership
Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1990
Schools that are concerned with evaluating their programs need more than just the average scaled assessment scores from standardized tests. To help schools, the Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program produces school and district reports that contain the stories behind the averages. These reports describe the kind of students who took the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Utilization, Intermediate Grades
Download full textLinn, Robert L. – 1991
Issues in the misuse of standardized test scores are discussed. While information misuse is not a problem unique to testing, it is particularly prevalent. Information can be a source of power, and politically motivated uses of information explain part of the misuse of test scores. Other misuses have historical roots in the exaggerated claims of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Technology
Koretz, Daniel; And Others – 1993
The 1992-93 school year was the second year of the implementation of the Vermont assessment program. Evaluation of the 1991-92 year yielded mixed results, with some evidence that the assessment program was having a strong impact on instruction, but other indications that the reliability of the portfolio scoring in both writing and mathematics was…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Bigelow, Robert A. – 1986
The Delaware Educational Assessment Program publishes annual results from the California Test of Basic Skills by district, school, and grade (1 through 8 and 11). A statewide computer information system was developed to manage the testing program, the massive 10-year longitudinal database, and the information requests received. The Delaware…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Assessment
