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Peer reviewedLee, Fong Yun – Childhood Education, 1992
Reviews reasons for the Association for Childhood Education International's opposition to standardized testing of children in the early grades. Discusses two alternative approaches: nonstructured assessments and structured assessments. Considers parents' and teachers' roles in these forms of assessments, and the teacher training that is needed.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Download full textEccarius, Malinda – 1997
This digest discusses the assessment of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Topics addressed include: (1) the purpose of an assessment of children who are deaf or hard of hearing; (2) problems associated with assessment, including the diagnostician's lack of experience with the deaf population, communication problems, tests that are normed…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Problems
Clear, Delbert K.; Box, John M. – 1985
Dismissals for ineffective teaching, as distinguished from insubordination, immorality, or improper treatment of students, are rare because standards of teaching against which to juxtapose an individual teacher's behavior have not been available. However, abstract performance standards for teachers are beginning to emerge from research on teaching…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems
Lee, Barbara A. – 1986
This chapter addresses developments concerning faculty tenure, examines institutional responses to new pressures and the litigation by faculty over those reponses, and explores faculty and administration rights and responsibilities. Academic administrators have realized that the reappointment, tenure, and promotion processes are an opportunity to…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Contracts, Court Litigation
Hein, George, Ed. – 1990
This document contains 15 chapters on various topics related to elementary science assessment. A comprehensive description of efforts to introduce alternatives to multiple-choice, paper and pencil tests to assess science learning is provided. The monograph includes an analysis of assessment issues, descriptions of current practice, and suggestions…
Descriptors: Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Smith-Shank, Deborah L., Ed.; Hausman, Jerome J., Ed. – 1994
This manual presents information about student learning, assessments, and evaluation, and gives practical suggestions for aiding student achievement in the visual arts. The Introduction, (1) "Finding Tar Beach: A Context for Assessment" (Deborah Smith-Shank) reminds educators that evaluation, assessment, and judgment procedures selected should…
Descriptors: Achievement, Art Education, Core Curriculum, Criteria
Fenwick, Tara J.; Parsons, Jim – 2000
This book introduces adult educators and trainers to the principles and techniques of learner evaluation in the various contexts of adult education. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the purposes of evaluation (the importance of authentic evaluation; principles of evaluation; traps in evaluation); (2) evaluating one's philosophy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Case Studies, Context Effect
