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Download full textYsseldyke, James E., Ed.; Thurlow, Martha L., Ed. – 1993
This monograph provides an overview of the issues surrounding inclusion and testing accommodations for students with disabilities and presents six papers discussing the issues. "Including Students with Disabilities in Systemic Efforts To Measure Outcomes: Why Ask Why?" (Bob Algozzine) argues that excluding any student from testing…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Deafness, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedAsay, Dawn; And Others – Arizona Reading Journal, 1991
Offers six Arizona teachers' comments on the new Arizona Student Assessment Program (ASAP). Discusses how the test affects children, whether the testing procedure is easily understood by teachers, how the ASAP differs from a standardized test, how the classroom teaching process has changed as a result of the test, concerns about the test, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Tests, State Standards, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedEaston, Lois E. – Arizona Reading Journal, 1991
Offers a preliminary assessment of the new Arizona Student Assessment Program (ASAP). Uses James Squire's model for analyzing reading and writing processes to analyze how well the tests assess reading processes. Includes some sample ASAP forms. Finds that the problems are minor in terms of evaluating the overall effectiveness of the new…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Processes, Reading Tests, State Standards
Lewis, Anne C. – School Administrator, 1996
Conflicting policy decisions, scaling difficulties, teacher resistance, and mediocre results are slowing adoption of authentic student-evaluation measures. With more conservative state leadership, California and Arizona rejected performance assessment, and other states have followed. Despite various setbacks, new assessments are becoming the norm.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment
Peer reviewedNolen, Susan Bobbitt; And Others – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1992
Arizona teachers and administrators (n=2,444) were surveyed to determine (1) use of standardized test scores; (2) teachers' perceptions of others' use of scores; (3) how schools prepare students to take tests; (4) conditions under which tests are given; and (5) views of current testing program effects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Elementary School Teachers
Shafer, Robert E. – 1986
In Arizona, beginning teachers applying for certification must take the Arizona Teacher Proficiency Examination which tests professional knowledge, reading, mathematics, and grammar. The high failure rate on the grammar test has caused a great deal of concern; 40 percent of the examinees, and a higher percentage of minority groups, failed it in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Higher Education
Cronin, John; Dahlin, Michael; Adkins, Deborah; Kingsbury, G. Gage – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
At the heart of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the call for all students to be "proficient" in reading and mathematics by 2014. Yet the law expects each state to define proficiency as it sees fit and design its own tests. This study investigated three research questions related to this policy: (1) How consistent are various…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Mathematics Tests, Test Validity, Reading Tests
Foster, Carl G.; Gable, Emma – 1980
The implementation of PL 94-142, special education for Native American children, is addressed in these six essays. PL 94-142 guarantees all exceptional children the right to a free education; in addition the child's program must be tailored to meet the pupil's individualized needs with all instruction appropriate to the child, providing a least…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Elliot, Jack; Zimmerman, Augusta – 2002
A study using the static-group research design was performed comparing the raw standardized Stanford 9 high stakes test scores of career and technical education (CTE) students with those of other students while controlling for extraneous variables such as learning styles, special populations, gender, race, and ethnicity. Two thousand high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
