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Direct linkPhillips, Gary W. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2015
This article proposes that sampling design effects have potentially huge unrecognized impacts on the results reported by large-scale district and state assessments in the United States. When design effects are unrecognized and unaccounted for they lead to underestimating the sampling error in item and test statistics. Underestimating the sampling…
Descriptors: State Programs, Sampling, Research Design, Error of Measurement
Lehrhaupt, Arthur – NJEA Review, 1972
Believes that the New Jersey Commission of Education's Policy of state-wide testing creates an atmosphere of repression against teachers'' and curbs imagination and innovation'' in children. (DS)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Intelligence Tests, State Government, State Legislation
Download full textNational Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1975
The National Education Association's Task Force on Testing has stated its opinion that standardized tests are overused. The task force suggests that the application of sampling techniques and a variety of alternatives to current testing practices would accomplish the same purposes. Representatives of the testing industry have indicated that the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Testing
Durost, Walter N. – 1971
The New Hampshire statewide testing program was implemented to provide a data base for the evaluation of the effectiveness of Title I projects as required by Federal law. To accomplish this objective, achievement and intelligence tests were administered to children in Title I projects and regular programs in four elementary grades--2, 4, 6 and 8.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education
Bayless, David L.; Nix, Charles W. – 1979
The merits and hazards of minimum competency testing for the individual student or for student groups are discussed. Types of groups which lend themselves to group application and some important factors in determining the parameters of a group are discussed. Ten critical issues related to minimum competency testing are identified: (1) scope of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
Roberts, Douglas B.; And Others – 1986
The Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) is a statewide testing program in reading and mathematics, with other subject areas tested on a sampling basis. The MEAP tests are administered every fall to all fourth, seventh and tenth graders. This handbook was developed to assist educators in analyzing, using, and reporting MEAP test results.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
