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Download full textChristner, Catherine A.; And Others – 1985
This manual outlines specific guidelines for testing students for Education Consolidation Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 eligibility in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District in 1985-86. Section 1 states that all students in Chapter 1 schools must be tested annually and must score at or below the 30th percentile for their grade level to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Keesling, J. Ward – 1984
The Title I Evaluation and Reporting System (TIERS) was developed in order to examine the extent to which Title I (now Chapter 1) is remediating the disadvantages in basic skills of educationally deprived children. TIERS Model A contrasts the achievement of Chapter 1 students to publishers' norms for hypothetically comparable groups of students.…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Pretests Posttests, Standardized Tests
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1992
This report is aimed at helping Congress: (1) better understand the functions, history, capabilities, limitations, uses, and misuses of educational tests; (2) learn more about the promises and pitfalls of new assessment methods and technologies; and (3) identify and weigh policy options affecting educational policy. To prepare this report, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
Benoit, Joyce; Yang, Hua – 1995
The use of portfolio assessment in the Dallas (Texas) Independent School District and the future of portfolio assessment are discussed. A literature review is followed by a description of the development process that preceded the Chapter 1 portfolio assessment of the Dallas schools. Portfolio results are then compared to the standardized measures…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criteria, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1993
At one of a series of hearings on H.R. 6, the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1993, several experts discussed issues related to national assessment, assessment in Chapter 1, and state efforts to develop new forms of assessment. Eleanor Chelimsky, Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and Methodology of the General…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Schattgen, Sharon Ford; And Others – 1992
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education uses state-developed, criterion-referenced tests for the purpose of evaluating programs funded by Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The agency's efforts to obtain approval from the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) to use state norms for evaluation purposes are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
