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McRAT Report, 1991
This report describes the instruction, assessment, and staff development of the Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT) program and summarizes the results of a one-year study conducted in 1989-90. (McRAT is a nationally recognized staff development program designed to help teachers infuse higher order thinking skills and multicultural concepts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Multicultural Education
Developing Item Bank Based Achievement Tests and Curriculum-Based Measures: Lessons Learned Enroute.
Mengel, Bill E.; Schorr, Larry L. – 1992
The experience of the Colorado Springs (Colorado) Public Schools (CSPS) in using different assessment forms for different purposes is detailed. A small niche is reserved for national norm-referenced testing to fill the state achievement testing mandate and for Chapter 1 accountability. A second, and larger, part of the assessment program will be…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment
Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
A study examined the effectiveness of the Chapter 1 Corrective Reading Program, designed to provide supplementary reading and writing instruction to Chapter 1-eligible students from New York City nonpublic schools. During the 1988-89 school year, the program served a total of 7,943 students at 162 instructional sites. The total included 4,656…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Corrective Reading, Curriculum Development
