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Download full textLand, Robert – Evaluation Comment, 1997
Assessment systems to measure high educational standards emerged as the major theme at the 1996 conference of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), "Moving Up to Complex Assessment." This feature article, providing a summation of the proceedings of the conference, reports that the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Technology
Cizek, Gregory J. – Fordham Report, 1998
This booklet provides parents, teachers, administrators, and policymakers with information about achievement testing which is relevant to their needs. The first section presents an overview of the current market for standardized achievement tests and provides key definitions, distinctions between ability and achievement testing, comparisons of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Hone, Lisa Richards, Ed. – GED Items, 1999
Six issues of the newsletter of the General Educational Development Testing Service discuss developments of interest to users of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) in the United States and Canada. The feature article of each issue is: (1) "Survey of Testing Centers Reveals Trends in Access to Technology"; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Certificates, Equivalency Tests, Family Programs
