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Download full textKane, M.; Crooks, T.; Cohen, A. – 1997
Passing scores for licensure and certification tests are justified by showing that decisions based on the passing score achieve the purposes of the credentialing program while avoiding any serious negative consequences. The passing score is justified to the extent decisions based on it have positive consequences. More specifically, the standard…
Descriptors: Certification, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Solano-Flores, Guillermo; Shavelson, Richard J.; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Schults, Susan Elise; Wiley, Edward W.; Brown, Janet H. – 1997
In a project on the development of performance assessments in science, researchers have developed four types of assessment: comparative, component identification, classification, and observation. They have noted that assessments belonging to the same type of task can be scored for the same performance properties. This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. – 1999
In 1999, Rhode Island students in grades 3, 7, and 10 took a performance assessment in writing as part of the Rhode Island State Assessment Program. These two documents, a guide for educators and a guide for parents, describe the test and its scoring. The test is called a performance assessment because it requires the students to demonstrate their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students, Parents, Performance Based Assessment
White, Sheida; Vanneman, Alan – NAEPfacts, 2000
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Writing Assessment measured student writing performance at the 4th, 8th, and 12th grades. Scoring guides for three different writing purposes at each grade allowed scorers to objectively evaluate students' work. This issue of NAEPfacts includes a 12th-grade persuasive writing scoring…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High Schools, Holistic Evaluation, National Competency Tests
Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 1996
"The Graduation Rule - 3501" was created in three stages and governs the Basic Standards in Reading and Mathematics (1996), the Basic Standards in Written Composition (1997), and the Profile of Learning (1998). This document contains the first of these three parts comprising Chapter 3501. "Basic Standards" are the basic…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, High Schools, Limited English Speaking, Mathematics
Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 1998
Consisting of items from the 1998 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment as well as some items created specifically for the Practice Test, this Practice Test intends to be representative of the type of test and contain items similar to those that appear on actual grade 5 reading tests. These practice tests are not intended to be psychometrically…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 1998
Consisting of items from the 1998 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment as well as some items created specifically for the Practice Test, this Practice Test intends to be representative of the type of test and contain items similar to those that appear on actual grade 3 reading tests. These practice tests are not intended to be psychometrically…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Grade 3, Minimum Competency Testing
Zwerling, Harris L. – 2003
In the context of controversy over the use of high stakes testing, the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) asked for an evaluation of the performance levels and cut score of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) mathematics and reading tests. While awaiting technical documentation from the Pennsylvania Department of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 2001
This publication contains released test items for grade 4 reading from the 2001 Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). It is designed to assist teachers and administrators in the analysis of specific test items in order to identify patterns, trends, weaknesses, and strengths of student performance on the Essential Academic Learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 2001
This publication contains released test items for grade 10 reading from the 2001 Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). It is designed to assist teachers and administrators in the analysis of specific test items in order to identify patterns, trends, weaknesses, and strengths of student performance on the Essential Academic Learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Grade 10, High Schools
Supon, Viola – 1999
This article explains the use of the multiple intelligences theory and rubric design to assess student learning. A rubric is a series of narrative statements describing the levels of quality of a product or a performance. The article discusses how these assessment tools can be used in K-12 classrooms and notes ways to assess quality results by…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools, Intelligence Differences
Lyons, Caryl; Bolton, Sandra – 1999
The paper describes the system of rater comments used in an American College Testing (ACT) Program English language test designed for use with Japanese secondary school students learning English as a foreign language. The writing portion of the test consists of two short essays, each scored by two native speakers of North American English, using a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Vellom, R. Paul – 1999
One of the challenges faced in teacher education is how to teach preservice teachers about complex topics, especially those that involve the roles of the teacher and students relative to one another and to what is being studied. This paper describes a secondary science methods course and presents activities from the course which allow teachers to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education
Butler, Susan McAleenan – 2000
This qualitative study, investigating the claims, concerns, and issues arising within the design stages of problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum units, was conducted during two masters-level classes during the summer of 1999. A hermeneutic dialectic discourse among veteran teachers (who were novice PBL curriculum designers) was facilitated by…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. – 2000
This addendum was created to reflect the recommendations of the Mathematics Task Force that met in Arizona to make recommendations to the state Board of Education. The Mathematics Task Force recommended that a core curriculum be identified in the Mathematics Proficiency Standards that would be required of all high school students beginning in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Mathematics, Measurement Techniques
