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Download full textThurlow, 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
Hart, Kathleen A.; Joscelyn, Mary K., Ed. – 1989
Standardized college-level tests of thinking have serious drawbacks, but they can be used effectively to compare results with other teachers or researchers and to suggest possible ways of measuring aspects of thinking in faculty-constructed tests. Faculty-designed tests should provide opportunities for students to use the important knowledge and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1989
This research summary identifies major factors affecting the validity of language assessments in bilingual students. The four factors include: (1) determining which language is dominant and in which language the child should be tested; (2) recognizing that bilingual children may use language in a way that is qualitatively different from that of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Information Update, 1989
This issue of a quarterly newsletter focuses on alternative assessment methods in adult basic education. It is occasioned, as explained in the opening editorial, by the announcement of the requirement for use of the 1987 edition of the Tests of Adult Basic Education for pre- and posttesting of basic education students in New York City, beginning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Alternative Assessment
Beard, John D., Ed.; McNabb, Scott E., Ed. – 1985
Intended for teachers, this collection of articles on testing in the English language arts contains the following titles: "What Do Test Scores 'Really' Mean in Educational Policy?" by George F. Madaus; "Testing and Literacy: A Contradiction in Terms?" by Marilyn Wilson; "Throwing in the TOWL," by Mary Jane Curry; "Taking the Authority Figure Out…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Arts
