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Nebraska Department of Education, 2024
The Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) is a statewide assessment system that embodies Nebraska's holistic view of students and helps them prepare for success in postsecondary education, career, and civic life. It uses multiple measures throughout the year to provide educators and decision-makers at all levels with the insights…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Jang, Younghee – 1998
This paper describes the processes that one school district, the Visalia Unified School District (California), went through in establishing a standards-based assessment and accountability system using multiple methods. First the district's standards-based assessment and accountability system and the methods used to establish it are described, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Policy
Loomis, Susan Cooper; Bay, Luz; Yang, Wen-Ling; Hanick, Patricia L. – 1999
Field trials were conducted to test rating methods and the impact of feedback about consequences for the 1998 achievement levels-setting (ALS) process for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The field trials provided the opportunity to try out different methods similar to those used successfully by others, as well as to try out…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Civics, Elementary Secondary Education