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A Testing Perspective on the Curriculum. A Teacher's Guide for Proficiency Examinations in Technology Education: Communication Systems, Production Systems, Transportation Systems.

New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Occupational Education Programs. – 1987

This information booklet is intended to serve as a companion document to the course syllabus for technology education in New York. It will assist teachers in developing lesson plans that address performance objectives, supporting competencies, and subsequent testing. It first provides important information to teachers, guidance counselors, and…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Communications

Inflated Test Score Gains: Is the Problem Old Norms or Teaching the Test?

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Shepard, Lorrie A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990

Results of a 1987 report indicating that elementary students of all states were above the national average are assessed. Issues addressed include teaching for standardized tests, the effect of teaching on national norms, and alternatives available to protect the integrity of instruction and the validity of normed test scores. (TJH)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, National Norms

Altering Curricula through State Testing: Perceptions of Teachers and Principals.

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Brown, Dave F. – 1992

Educators' perceptions of the effects of state mandated testing on instructional practices and curricular decisions were studied. An ethnographic interview study was conducted with 30 fifth- and sixth-grade teachers and 12 principals from Illinois, New York, and Tennessee. Forty-one of the 42 respondents agreed to have their interviews audiotaped.…

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers