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Download full textAnrig, Gregory R.; And Others – 1987
Five papers given at a conference on the role of testing in the teaching profession are presented. The conference partners included the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Educational Testing Service, Center for Fair and Open Testing, and National Education Association. The following issues are discussed: appropriate uses of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Johnson, Roosevelt – 1976
This paper presents the purpose, format, topics of seminar sessions, and participant recommendations of a conference on educational testing processes and their relation to blacks. The conference was held to familiarize participants with research data demonstrating the fallacies and inconsistencies inherent in the testing process as it relates to…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Policy, Educational Testing, Labeling (of Persons)
Crocker, Linda; Zieky, Michael – 1995
The National Assessment Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics sponsored a Joint Conference on Standard Setting for Large-Scale Assessments to provide a forum for technical and policy issues relevant to setting standards at local, state, and national levels. This executive summary conveys the essence of the conference by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Educational History, Educational Policy
Educational Testing Service, Washington, DC. Education Policy Research Inst. – 1977
In February, 1976, the Education Policy Research Institute sponsored this conference on the use of tests in educational policy formation; these six papers were presented at that conference. In the first paper, Jenne K. Britell discusses four points that have historically characterized debates about testing; psychometric and technical issues;…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Testing
Baker, Eva L.; Herman, Joan L. – 1983
The Center for the Study of Evaluation, of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles (CSE) hosted a two day conference on "Paths to Excellence: Testing and Technology" on July 14-15, 1983. Attended by over 100 educational researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, the first day of the conference…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Attitudes, Data Analysis, Educational Policy
Martinez, Kenneth A.; Arenas, Soledad – 1979
This summary of the presentation given at four Head Start Regional Bilingual/Multicultural Conferences consists of materials related to the Head Start Strategy for Spanish-speaking Children. Keynote addresses focus on Head Start policy implications, the future of Head Start in the 1980s, and the relation of bilingual/bicultural programs to the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Perry, Katye M., Ed.; And Others – 1985
These combined proceedings summarize presentations of two conference programs designed to address state-mandated student achievement issues. Dr. Terrel Bell delivered the keynote speech at a teleconference focusing on a broad perspective of competency testing. He discussed testing problems, as well as positive aspects such as comparison, diagnosis…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Economics, Educational Policy
North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation, Grand Forks. – 1977
A number of issues regarding educational evaluation and the problems associated with the practice of evaluation were discussed at a conference held in San Francisco, California, in 1976. Participants and persons submitting position papers included evaluators, administrators, teachers, educational researchers, parents, and students. Statements of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1987
Nine papers were presented at the 1986 Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference on outcomes assessment in higher education. The Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement was awarded to Frederic Kuder for development of the Kuder-Richardson 20 and KR-21 formulas for test reliability, the Kuder Preference Record, and the Kuder…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), College Students
Adelman, Clifford, Ed. – 1986
Emerging and traditional forms of assessment in U.S. higher education are considered in this collection of five conference papers from the 1985 National Conference on Assessment in Higher Education. Included are a foreword by Education Secretary William J. Bennett and concluding remarks by Clifford Adelman. Paper titles and authors are as follows:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Business Administration Education, College Students
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
Wagemaker, Paula, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2007
As part of its mission, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is committed to the development of the community of researchers who work in the area of assessment both nationally and internationally. The association also has a commitment to provide policymakers with the types of data and analyses that will…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Science Achievement
