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Must Instructionally Useful Performance Assessment Be Based in the Curriculum?
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Deno, Stanley L. – Exceptional Children, 1994
This literature review discusses the match between tests and curricula, measurement validity and instructional utility when sampling student performance in general and advantages/disadvantages of sampling performance in the curriculum. It concludes that sampling from the curriculum is not essential and outlines three critical features ensuring the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Based Assessment, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Toward Improving Assessment of Students with Special Needs: Expanding the Data Base to Include Classroom Performance.
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Bachor, Dan G. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Reviews medical and psychoeducational assessment models, illustrating need to expand assessment procedure database resulting from the measurement errors in traditional assessment practices. Introduces assessment model emphasizing collection of classroom-based information over time and evaluating data more critically. Suggests model facilitates…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Instructional Development
From a Horizontal to a Vertical Method of Integrating Educational Diagnosis with Classroom Assessment.
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Dassa, Clement – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Describes two Quebec studies integrating educational diagnosis with classroom assessment to develop learning strategies. Outlines new model based on studies and new mastery learning developments. Argues that the unit of measurement should shift from the student to the teacher-student interaction, and the methodology should be…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods