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Self, Carlton; Morgan, A. Christian; Fuhrman, Nicholas E.; Navarro, Maria – Journal of Drug Education, 2013
The National 4-H Council developed the Health Rocks substance abuse educational program to prevent youth from engaging in risky behaviors. The program was presented in 2010 to more than 8,000 middle school youth in Georgia. A post-then-pre evaluation was conducted with youth who completed 10 hours of instruction to determine if changes in youth…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Drug Education
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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Glasswell, Kath; Harland, Don – Assessing Writing, 2004
Accuracy in the scoring of writing is critical if standardized tasks are to be used in a national assessment scheme. Three approaches to establishing accuracy (i.e., consensus, consistency, and measurement) exist and commonly large-scale assessment programs of primary school writing demonstrate adjacent agreement consensus rates of between 80% and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Writing Tests
Isham, Steven P.; Allen, Nancy L. – 1992
As a result of the dual roles of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to measure trends in academic achievement over time and to measure what students know and can do, a scale anchoring procedure was developed. Although the NAEP provides norm-referenced information about student proficiency, the scale anchoring procedure gives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education