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Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
School districts, individual schools, and education policies all contribute to student achievement. But it can be argued that the most important contributing factor is the quality of the teacher in the classroom. Evaluating teacher quality is complicated, yet it has become even more important with the testing and assessment focus of No Child Left…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Measurement Techniques
Ebel, Robert L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1970
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity
Pine, Patricia – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1970
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Test Validity
Gilroy, Marilyn – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
This article reports that more colleges are dropping the SAT as a requirement for admission and, in many cases, these institutions are attracting a larger and more diverse pool of applicants. According to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), 740 schools have made the SATs optional. The list includes some of the nation's most…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Achievement Tests
Applebee, Arthur N. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
Results of experiment indicate that ability to deduce answers is at least as important as speed or comprehension; problems arise because too much attention is paid to very small fluctuations in scores." (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Tests, Silent Reading, Test Construction
Neill, Monty – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
Many principals and teachers have concluded that high-stakes testing, particularly the kind of high-stakes testing which has been mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, is doing grave damage to education and to the lives of children. Parents and other community members likewise worry about the consequences of schools focusing on test…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Academic Standards