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Download full textW. Christopher Brandt; Nathan Dadey; Carla Evans – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2024
Recent years have produced a surge in interest in improving state assessment programs. Many states are designing new assessments. Much of this innovation is aimed at addressing longstanding areas of unhappiness with typical domain-sampled, end-of-year state assessments: States want to streamline assessment activities, enhance the instructional…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, State Standards
Direct linkOsness, Bonnie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative case study examined the process Northcentral Technical College (NTC), a two-year institution, navigated to design and implement a standardized prior learning assessment (PLA) program. With the projected labor market shortage, PLA is one strategy colleges have been recommended to use to provide the opportunity for students to apply…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Technical Institutes
Peer reviewedArffman, Inga – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2013
The article reviews research and findings on problems and issues faced when translating international academic achievement tests. The purpose is to draw attention to the problems, to help to develop the procedures followed when translating the tests, and to provide suggestions for further research. The problems concentrate on the following: the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Translation, Testing Problems, Test Construction
Golan, Shari; Woodbridge, Michelle; Davies-Mercier, Betsy; Pistorino, Carol – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2016
States increasingly are incorporating Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs) into their comprehensive assessment systems with the goal of helping educators identify gaps in children's competencies, target instruction to children's individual needs, engage parents to better support their child's learning, and identify needs for expanding and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Tests, Testing Programs, Data Use
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2016
States increasingly are incorporating Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs) into their comprehensive assessment systems with the goal of helping educators identify gaps in children's competencies, target instruction to children's individual needs, engage parents to better support their child's learning, and identify needs for expanding and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Tests, Testing Programs, Data Use
New York State Education Department, 2018
This technical report provides detailed information regarding the technical, statistical, and measurement attributes of the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) for the Grades 3-8 English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics 2018 Operational Tests. This report includes information about test content and test development, item (i.e., individual…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Language Tests, Mathematics Tests
Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Deane, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
This report describes the foundation and rationale for a framework designed to measure reading literacy. The aim of the effort is to build an assessment system that reflects current theoretical conceptions of reading and is developmentally sensitive across a prekindergarten to 12th grade student range. The assessment framework is intended to…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Literacy, Models, Testing Programs
Tarar, Jessica M.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Dickens, Rachel H. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2015
The TOWRE-2 was developed to provide an efficient measure of two essential wordlevel reading skills, sight word reading and phonetic decoding skills. The Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) subtest assesses the number of real words that an individual can read from a vertical list within 45 s. This subtest is designed to measure the size of an individual's…
Descriptors: Word Study Skills, Sight Method, Phonetics, Decoding (Reading)
New York State Education Department, 2017
This technical report provides detailed information regarding the technical, statistical, and measurement attributes of the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) for the Grades 3-8 English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics 2017 Operational Tests. This report includes information about test content and test development, item (i.e., individual…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Language Tests, Mathematics Tests
Stohlman, Trey – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
A good assessment plan combines many direct and indirect measures to validate the collected data. One often controversial assessment measure comes in the form of retention exams. Although assessment retention exams may come with faults, others advocate for their inclusion in program assessment. Objective-based tests may offer insight to…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Retention (Psychology), Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2015
The "PIRLS 2016 Assessment Framework, 2nd Edition" provides the foundation for the three international assessments planned as part of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016: PIRLS, PIRLS Literacy, and ePIRLS. PIRLS represents the…
Descriptors: International Programs, Testing Programs, Student Evaluation, Reading Tests
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2014
The "TIMSS Advanced 2015 Assessment Frameworks" provides the foundation for the two international assessments to take place as part of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) Advanced 2015--Advanced Mathematics and Physics. Chapter 1 (Liv…
Descriptors: International Programs, Testing Programs, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests
GED Testing Service, 2014
This manual was written to provide technical information regarding the General Educational Development (GED®) test as evidence that the GED® test is technically sound. Throughout this manual, documentation is provided regarding the development of the GED® test and data collection activities, as well as evidence of reliability and validity. This…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Equivalency Tests, Testing Programs, Test Validity
Wang, Lin; Qian, Jiahe; Lee, Yi-Hsuan – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the combined effects of reduced equating sample size and shortened anchor test length on item response theory (IRT)-based linking and equating results. Data from two independent operational forms of a large-scale testing program were used to establish the baseline results for evaluating the results from…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Item Response Theory, Testing Programs, Simulation
Albano, Anthony D. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2013
In many testing programs it is assumed that the context or position in which an item is administered does not have a differential effect on examinee responses to the item. Violations of this assumption may bias item response theory estimates of item and person parameters. This study examines the potentially biasing effects of item position. A…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Response Theory, Test Format, Questioning Techniques
