This document builds on the 1997 Standards for the Preparation of Graduate-Level Health Educators by including expanded content descriptors and objectives for the graduate level competencies. It begins by discussing evolution of health education competencies; chronology of the graduate standard development process; benefits of graduate level…

This report is intended to help parents understand the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) and the reports it generates. The tests of the DSTP are tied to the Delaware content standards that define the knowledge and skills required for students to succeed beyond high school. In spring 2001, the DSTP reading, writing, and mathematics tests were…

This paper provides the framework for the kindergarten through grade 12 study of English Language Arts in Alabama's public schools. Content standards in this document define the minimum requirements. Content standards are aligned with applicable assessments at each grade level including writing assessments, Alabama High School Graduation Exam, and…

This Writing Instructional Intervention Supplement from the Mississippi Department of Education contains benchmarks, informal assessments, and suggested teaching strategies for the fourth through eighth grades. Benchmarks outline what students should know and be able to do to meet mandated competencies. Informal and observational assessments…

Guidelines represent an important instrument in the development of Web-based Training (WBT). They help to create reliable, portable, and interoperable standardized WBTs of high-quality. The development of guidelines can be considered as a key success factor regarding the effectiveness of WBTs. The effects of guidelines can be both favorable and…

This paper addresses the question: how might those engaged in the mission of training secondary Speech-education teachers create a "pedagogy of authentic civic action" in light of current standards legislation that functions more to perpetuate a liberal republic than it does to vivify (and articulate) an authentic democracy? The arena of K-12…

This book addresses problems facing U.S. schools, discussing the role of parental involvement and how social class pervades the school system. It suggests there are actually three school systems, with serious inequities among them (one serves the well-to-do and privileged, plus a few exceptional students from lower social classes; another provides…

Standardization initiatives in the field of learning technologies have produced standards for the interoperability of learning environments and learning management systems. Learning resources based on these standards can be reused, recombined, and adapted to the user. However, these standards follow a content-oriented approach; the process of…

A series of four policy seminars was held in 1999 to discuss suggestions to ensure that Latino children reap the benefits of standards-based accountability and to illuminate related issues for the educational system. This report summarizes those seminars. The first was "Educational Standards, Assessment and Accountability: A New Civil Rights…

This small manual presents 12 learning scenarios designed to teach the Japanese national learning standards to American learners of Japanese. It is written by teachers for teachers. These scenarios are designed to teach interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication; practices and products of culture; cultural comparisons; language…

This regional needs assessment has three objectives: (1) collect and analyze information with the goal of identifying emerging trends and issues in the Northwest that affect public education; (2) use the findings from this analysis as a basis for assessing perceptions of how significantly these issues impact their local schools; and (3) use these…

Reviewers analyzed the alignment of assessments and standards in mathematics and science from four states at a four-day institute conducted June 29 through July 2, 1998. Six reviewers compared the match between assessment items and standards in mathematics and seven compared the match in science. Data from these analyses were processed and used to…

This handbook is intended as a resource for schools and districts interested in developing and implementing a standards-based assessment system. The chapters in the handbook introduce key steps in the assessment development process. Several types of on-demand and cumulative assessments are emphasized, including multiple-choice and written-response…

To assess the progress of students in large urban school districts and to learn more about major reform initiatives taking place in urban schools, a study of 13 large districts was conducted. Of the 13 districts studied, 10 showed increases in the percentage of elementary school students in the highest poverty schools meeting the district or state…

This paper examines the issues that accountability-driven planning has generated for those attempting to retain ownership of their school-improvement process. It outlines five sets of contradictions, broadly relating to assumptions about planning, that become evident from a study of the planning literature: (1) short time-lines and multiple…