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Walter, L. James; And Others – Catalyst, The Journal of the Nebraska Council of School Administrators, 1981
This special issue of "Catalyst", entitled Testing Programs in Schools: What's New?, was published jointly by the Nebraska Council of School Administrators and the Nebraska Association for Supervision and Curriculum. The articles emphasize desirability of designing testing programs to meet the information needs of educators and the…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Information Utilization, Latent Trait Theory, Program Improvement
Olson, John F.; Goldstein, Arnold A. – Focus on NAEP, 1996
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is working to increase the numbers of students with disabilities (SD) or limited English proficient (LEP) students who are included in the assessment. Information is presented on the changes made to the inclusion criteria, the types of accommodations being offered, new procedures implemented…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Criteria, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Boylan, Hunter R., Ed.; Kerstiens, Gene, Ed. – Research in Developmental Education, 1989
These four serial issues examine the effectiveness and appropriateness of a variety of assessment tests as well as their relationship to developmental education. Included are reviews of the following tests: (1) the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program, a self-scoring test of English and mathematics; (2) the Stanford Achievement Test, an…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Testing
Anivan, Sarinee, Ed. – 1991
The selection of papers on language testing includes: "Language Testing in the 1990s: How Far Have We Come? How Much Further Have We To Go?" (J. Charles Alderson); "Current Research/Development in Language Testing" (John W. Oller, Jr.); "The Difficulties of Difficulty: Prompts in Writing Assessment" (Liz Hamp-Lyons,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Cues