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Download full textPence, Penny; Petrosky, Anthony – 1992
The work of the Assessment Development Laboratory (ADL) at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in developing an assessment for identifying accomplished teachers of English language arts to young adolescents (aged 11 to 15 years) for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is reviewed. The assessment is meant to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adolescents, Definitions, Educational Assessment
Hambleton, Ronald K. – 1993
A review of educational measurement journals indicates that the decade of the 1970s and up until about 1984 was the time when substantial numbers of studies dealt with criterion-referenced measurement, and the era in which criterion-referenced measurement advances were made. Although there appears to be less interest in publications today, a…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1993
The 1992 achievement tests for the Alberta (Canada) public schools show what students in grades 3, 6, and 9 can do in social studies, language arts, and mathematics, respectively. Results are reported in terms of curriculum standards, achievement standards, and assessment standards. In June 1992, there were 41,696 students in grade 3, 37,837 in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students
Richards, Anne L.; Luong-Van, Susan – 1992
Consensus and visitation moderation are applied to Year 10 and Year 11 English and mathematics with the aim of achieving comparable standards across the Northern Territory (Australia). Additional aims are to provide professional support and inservice for teachers and to improve performance standards. Moderation involves meetings of teachers and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators
Jaeger, Richard M.; Busch, John Christian – 1984
In this final report of an 18-month series of projects designed to investigate the validity of the General Knowledge (GK) and Communications Skills (CS) tests of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) for North Carolina, highlights and major conclusions are summarized and appropriate standards of performance are recommended. Evidence was…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication Skills, Education Work Relationship, Elementary School Teachers
Ray, John R.; Bowman, Harry L. – 1988
The licensure of public school personnel in Tennessee is a function of the State Department of Education (SDE). Additional requirements for this certification function were added by the Comprehensive Education Reform Act (Senate Bill Number 1) of the 1984 Tennessee General Assembly. The Act mandated that the SDE use tests to assess the competence…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Item Banks
Jaeger, Richard M. – 1989
Criteria for the selection of judges (evaluators) for setting item-based standards involved in tests for which cutting scores must be established are investigated. Focus is on cases in which test standards are based on specialists' judgments concerning the difficulty of test items in tests used to determine who will be awarded a diploma, admitted…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics)
Gorth, William Phillip; Perkins, Marcy R. – 1979
The status of minimum competency testing programs, as of June 30, 1979, is given through descriptions of 31 state programs and 20 local district programs. For each program, the following information is provided: legislative and policy history; implementation phase; goals; competencies to be tested; standards and standard setting; target groups and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Carlson, Kenneth; Rubin, Lawrence – 1979
This document reports on the results of a three-year series of studies of the development and implementation of statewide pupil proficiency standards in New Jersey, set in response to the passage of Chapter 97, New Jersey Public Laws of 1976. The first section of the report summarizes a survey of statewide minimum pupil proficiency standards in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Court Litigation, Decision Making, Educational Development
Wise, Arthur E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1983
This paper focuses on ways in which one state policy for improving education--standard-setting through testing mechanisms--affects the classroom teacher-learner relationship. That uniform policy-making is problematic is clear from observations of 43 Mid-Atlantic school district teachers. Responding to three types of standards, 45 percent found…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Improvement
