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Gredler, Margaret E. – 1999
This book presents the full array of assessment methods available to the classroom teacher in an interesting and engaging format, broadens the preservice and inservice teacher's understanding of related assessment issues, and places assessment in a meaningful context. The text, which was developed for an introductory course in classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructed Response, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Gonzalez-Tamayo, Eulogio – 1991
Test scores on the Test of Basic Concepts, a school readiness test, were compared with actual performance in school for 186 low-scoring and 133 high-scoring groups of first graders from Spain at the beginning of the school year to explore the issues of competence testing and prediction of performance. The measure of school performance was derived…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary School Students
Loftin, Lynn Baker – 1993
This study illustrates how a factor analysis of a well-designed student-rating instrument can increase its utility. Factor analysis of a student-rating instrument was used to reveal constructs that would explain student attrition in science, mathematics, and engineering majors. The Instructional Development and Effectiveness Assessment (IDEA)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Course Evaluation, Course Selection (Students)
Phillips, S. E. – 1993
States use many high-stakes assessments to make decisions about individuals. These tests may be criticized by those who believe that their purpose or application is discriminatory. Because litigation is time consuming and costly, it is advantageous for states to plan assessments carefully to maximize legal defensibility. This handbook is designed…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disabilities, Discriminatory Legislation, Educational Assessment
Gipps, Caroline – 1994
The United Kingdom has a history of performance assessment even for accountability purposes, as the public examinations (standardized achievement tests) at age 16 demonstrate. What the country does not have is a strong history in the area of equity. Debate and policy-making, when concerned at all, have been concentrated on equality of opportunity,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, British National Curriculum, Educational Assessment
Meisels, Samuel J.; And Others – 1989
Many professionals are convinced that more testing, tracking, and retention are taking place in the early school years than ever before. They also believe that developmentally inappropriate modifications to curricula are being implemented. As a result of inappropriate use of standardized tests, disproportionate numbers of poor and minority…
Descriptors: Criteria, Criterion Referenced Tests, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices
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American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1987
A guide to the adaptation of oral proficiency testing for classroom language instruction contains excerpts of projects by participants in an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) workshop. The excerpts are examples of proficiency based curricula and materials designed to personalize instruction and simulate real-life…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Wilson, Ann Jarvella – 1986
The purpose of this paper, which is drawn from a larger analytic history of the National Teacher Evaluation (NTE) program, is to investigate issues of validity within the context of the program's 50-year history. Three major findings emerge from historical considerations relating to: (1) the continuity of test content and justification over the…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Competency Based Teacher Education, Court Litigation
McCune, Allen – 1986
The Halstead/Bentley Public School District in south-central Kansas has a long, successful history of administering a comprehensive evaluation program of achievement, scholastic aptitude, and interest tests and inventories in grades K-12. The PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) is an…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Career Planning, College Entrance Examinations
Bunch, Michael B. – 1986
In 1983 the Maryland State Department of Public Education (MSDE) issued a request for proposals for "The Development of the Score Reporting System for the Maryland Functional Testing Program." The MSDE called for a literature review, a national survey, a statewide survey of user needs and capabilities, an assessment of the state's report…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Design Requirements, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Research. – 1977
This handbook is a guide to the "Test Development Notebook" of the System for Pupil and Program Evaluation and Development (SPPED). It describes the contents and organization of the notebook, suggests various uses of the exercises, provides sample test designs, outlines test production procedures, and offers guidelines for score…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Consumer Education, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
Socha, Alan; Barclay, Raymond – Online Submission, 2005
A cut score validity analysis for a pretest writing prompt and the SAT Verbal and Math assessments was performed for academic writing course placement. This study was carried out as part of a broader program of assessment aimed at understanding the impact of the writing course and eventually set the baseline for assessing the impact of 'writing…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Test Validity, Program Effectiveness, Scoring
Wu, Ling-Erl Eileen T. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1993
For comparison with tests and curriculum in the United States, excerpts from mathematics sections of university entrance examinations in Japan are presented. The impact of tests tightly tied to curriculum is discussed, and test results are summarized. Sample student responses to the examinations are also reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Cross Cultural Studies, Equations (Mathematics)
Valencia, Richard R.; Aburto, Sofia – 1993
A persistent problem in U.S. educational research has been how to explain the continuing low performance on standardized tests by certain racial and ethnic minority-group students, such as Chicanos. This chapter identifies abusive practices stemming from standardized testing that help to shape school failure among Chicano students, and discusses…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
French, Russell L.; Bobbett, Gordon – 1995
While the publication of school report cards and profiles is common in a number of states, their contents and formats vary as they represent the concerns and initiatives of policymakers. Over recent years, several studies have been made of school report cards and profiles. In this investigation, the focus is a comparison of report cards and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
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