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Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2018
Assessing the achievement of students in elementary and secondary schools and the nation's educational progress is fundamental to informing education policy approaches. Congressional interest in this area includes and extends beyond the annual assessments administered by states to comply with the educational accountability requirements of Title…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests
Walberg, Herbert J., Ed. – Hoover Institution Press, 2011
The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is widely recognized. In "Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform," Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to inform citizens, educators, and policy makers about well-established principles of testing, current problems, and promising evidence-based…
Descriptors: Evidence, School Restructuring, Test Results, Testing
Johnson, Daniel K. N.; Lybecker, Kristina M.; Taylor, Corrine H. – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors investigated whether the curricular structure of an economics course (semester, trimester, or compressed block schedule) has an effect on an undergraduate's subsequent retention of course material, while controlling for other relevant differences. They tested separately for theoretical or process comprehension and for graphical…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Retention (Psychology)
Kulm, Gerald, Ed. – 1990
This book explores current theory, research, practice, and policy in the assessment of higher order thinking in mathematics, focusing on the elementary and secondary grades. Current knowledge and research on mathematics learning and testing is synthesized. Examples of innovative test items for classroom use and state assessment programs are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computation, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Uses in Education

Millman, Jason – Educational Researcher, 1989
Examines practices that encourage false negatives and false positives on licensing and certification tests designed to protect the public. Recommends increasing the amount of testing or raising the required passing score for repeat test takers. (FMW)
Descriptors: Certification, Evaluation Research, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Predictive Measurement
Feuer, Michael J.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Congress should formulate U.S. testing policy to ensure that reliable and accurate data are available to policymakers, educators, and the public and that tests are used fairly without infringing on individual rights or imposing unacceptable social costs. Appropriate test use and continued research funding must be a high priority for agencies…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Government Role
Rudner, Lawrence M.; And Others – 1987
Designed for policymakers and programs planners involved with the topic of teacher testing, this publication outlines issues involved in teacher testing and describes state-level activities in this area. A question-and-answer section provides general information on major types of teacher tests, prevalence of teacher tests, problems addressed by…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, State Standards
Florida A and M Univ., Tallahassee. – 1989
This document for participants comprises the proceedings of a fifth national conference on the retention of black college students. The conference consisted of 2 preconference workshops, 7 general sessions, and 21 concurrent sessions. A total of 68 selected papers were presented. Preconference workshops focused on the freshman year experience and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Persistence, Black Students, College Students
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Bureau of Special Education. – 1986
The report, developed by a special Iowa task force, examined issues of definition, criteria, and identification procedures for learning disabilities as a point of departure for the examination of current practices affecting learning disabled students in Iowa. The committee's working definintion of learning disabilities is presented as a basis for…
Descriptors: Definitions, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility
Kohn, Alfie – American School Board Journal, 1999
Overreliance on standardized testing sends a message to students that learning is remembering facts, and that intelligence is a function of how quickly people can do things. In schools around the country, the content and style of teaching are being placed in the service of the tests. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Experience, Public Schools, Standardized Tests

Blits, Jan H.; Gottfredson, Linda S. – Public Interest, 1990
Reviews the evaluation by the National Academy of Science (NAS) of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), which was developed to predict the job performance of potential employees. Proposes that the NAS recommendation to correct the GATB's racial bias by "race-norming" was a political decision and not scientifically justified. (FMW)
Descriptors: Occupational Tests, Political Influences, Predictive Validity, Racial Bias
New York State School Boards Association, Albany. – 1989
Testing and assessment have become extremely important components of the educational program. The purpose of this position paper is to provide factual and policy-related information that may be of use to school boards as they design or improve their districts' testing and assessment policies. It is the New York State policy that school boards…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
Stansfield, Charles W.; Hiple, David – 1987
The report describes a federally funded study of the application of language proficiency concepts, developed for commonly taught languages, to less commonly taught languages. It summarizes the project's background and origins and the activities of the project, including four separate studies on the feasibility of proficiency-based instruction and…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian
Thurlow, Martha; Elliott, Judy; Ysseldyke, Jim – NCEO Policy Directions, 1999
This paper addresses the controversy about use of "out-of-level" testing, the practice of assessing students (usually those with disabilities) with a lower-level version of a test. The controversy pits unintended instructional consequences against "accurately" measuring performance and avoiding student frustration. Introductory…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy

Bartlett, David – British Journal of Special Education, 1991
This paper comments that problems with Great Britain's Key Stage 1 standard assessment tasks (SATs) for pupils with special educational needs involve the SATs design and use. Issues discussed include activity-based assessments, adaptations, time demands, step size, future development of SATs, and disapplications of the National Curriculum. (JDD)
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests