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Download full textMcLaughlin, Margaret J.; Warren, Sandra Hopfengardner – 1995
This digest considers the use of performance assessment within outcomes-based accountability systems for students with and without disabilities. Application of performance assessment to students with disabilities involves defining the outcomes, developing performance standards, developing assessment accommodations, and scoring. Implications of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Thurlow, Martha – 1995
This digest examines issues concerning performance assessment of students receiving special education services. Issues addressed are: (1) need to infuse performance assessment into national programs including the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS); (2) current lack of inclusion of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, National Programs
Rivera, Charlene; Vincent, Carolyn; Hafner, Anne; LaCelle-Peterson, Mark – 1997
The standards-based educational reform initiatives of the 1990's call for assessment innovations to support high standards. To document state assessment policies and to develop policy recommendations for assessment innovations, the George Washington University Center for Excellence and Equity in Education surveyed state assessment directors in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Pandey, Tej – 1990
This digest discusses how well authentic mathematics assessment tests can be expected to meet the needs of mathematics instruction that focuses on conceptual insights and analytical skills. In the new mathematics curriculum, situational lessons or real-life problems attempt to include dimensions of thinking and reasoning, individual or small-group…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12
