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Direct linkWang, Huan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Multiple uses of the same assessment may present challenges for both the design and use of an assessment. Little advice, however, has been given to assessment developers as to how to understand the phenomena of multiple assessment use and meet the challenges these present. Particularly problematic is the case in which an assessment is used for…
Descriptors: Test Use, Testing Programs, Program Effectiveness, Test Construction
Peer reviewedMehrens, William A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1998
Examines the purposes of large-scale assessment programs, outlines the dangers and benefits of these assessments, considers the research evidence about the consequences of assessment, discusses how to evaluate assessment quality, and presents some ideas about the variables that influence the probabilities for good and bad assessment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Grobe, Robert P.; And Others – 1983
The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) is rapidly progressing from the position of having an assessment program that does not work to the position of having an assessment program that does work. The perception that assessment is separate from instruction has changed to a view of assessment as part of a four-stage model including planning,…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Program Descriptions
Saif, Shahrzad – Language Testing, 2006
The aim of this study is to explore the possibility of creating positive washback by focusing on factors in the background of the test development process and anticipating the conditions most likely to lead to positive wash-back. The article reports on a multiphase empirical study investigating the washback effects of a needs-based test of spoken…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Training, Intervals, Teaching Assistants
Peer reviewedYeld, Nan; Haeck, Wim – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1997
A new South African testing approach designed to assess potential university students' ability to cope with English-medium academic education is also designed to take into account the effects of educational disadvantagement and minimize reliance on students' content-based secondary school experiences. The approach incorporates principles from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constructivism (Learning), Educationally Disadvantaged, English
Download full textMarso, Ronald N.; Pigge, Fred L. – 1993
Testing program directors from approximately 100 randomly selected school districts in Ohio reported their perceptions of the testing competencies most needed to successfully manage their standardized testing programs and of the perceived value of their university training in developing these competencies. It was found that competencies associated…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility, Competency Based Education
