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Download full textHerman, Joan L.; Heritage, Margaret; Goldschmidt, Pete – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2011
States and districts across the country are grappling with how to incorporate assessments of student learning into their teacher evaluation systems. Sophisticated statistical models have been proposed to estimate the relative value individual teachers add to their students' assessment performance (hence the term teacher "value-added" measures).…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Testing, Test Selection, Test Construction
Herman, Joan L.; Heritage, Margaret; Goldschmidt, Pete – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2011
States and districts across the country are grappling with how to incorporate assessments of student learning into their teacher evaluation systems. Sophisticated statistical models have been proposed to estimate the relative value individual teachers add to their students' assessment performance (hence the term teacher "value-added" measures).…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Testing, Test Selection, Test Construction
Direct linkShermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1976
This booklet describes an alternative approach to testing the mathematical abilities of elementary school students. The booklet is highly critical of the use of standardized tests for many purposes, and both the introduction and an appendix are devoted to those criticisms. This project for Tests of Reasonable Quantitative Understanding of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
