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Download full textSchwartz, Wendy – 1995
This guide helps parents understand how schools assess their child's English language ability and suggests ways for them to help schools place their children in the most useful language program. All districts must decide which students to test, and then how to test them. Some schools attempt to find out the English skills of all students, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedVan Kesteren, Baukje J. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
The Learner Report (LR) (A. D. De Groot, 1974) is an instrument to identify educational objectives that resist obvious measurement. An overview is presented of studies using the LR and problems and solutions found in the literature and identified in a survey of 16 Dutch LR users. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHadaway, Nancy L.; Marek-Schroer, Marilyn – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1994
Examines problems inherent in the overuse of testing as a way to identify giftedness, especially with respect to assessing the culturally diverse. Use of portfolios is suggested as an alternative procedure that can provide a more equitable and culturally fair assessment of the culturally and linguistically diverse child. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cultural Differences, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Schwartz, Wendy – 1996
This guide helps parents understand how schools assess their child's English language ability and suggests ways for them to help schools place their children in the most useful language program. All districts must decide which students to test, and then how to test them. Some schools attempt to find out the English skills of all students, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. – 1994
This directory is intended to provide technical assistance for Nevada school districts and other evaluators of preschool children in selecting appropriate instruments to use in the multidisciplinary process for special education eligibility. It is not a list of approved tests, and tests not listed in this directory may be appropriate for…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Rangel, Rich; Bansberg, Bill – 1998
This classroom assessment tool offers teachers a method to identify academic needs across the curriculum for migrant, language-different, and mobile students. The primary strategy of this assessment system is to identify the knowledge and skill levels of these students in core curriculum areas. The snapshot assessment is a low-stakes, informal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Educational Assessment, Educational Attainment
Rangel, Richard; Bansberg, Bill – 1996
The classroom assessment tool described in this manual offers teachers a method to identify academic needs across the curriculum for migrant, language minority, and mobile students. The primary strategy of this assessment system is to identify the knowledge and skill levels of these students in core curriculum areas. The tests, for grades 1…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Educational Assessment, Educational Attainment
Shepard, Lorrie A. – 1992
The place for standardized testing in Chapter 1 evaluation is discussed. There is substantial evidence available on the negative effects of high-stakes standardized testing, and there is a clear link between Chapter 1 requirements and the amount of testing in most school districts. Standardized testing is usually used to identify eligible…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness
Baxter, Gail P.; And Others – 1993
Analyses of the cognitive activity displayed by students on existing innovative assessments in science were conducted. The project has worked with pilot alternative assessment programs in Connecticut and California to document the match or mismatch between the skills and processes that the assessment is designed to tap and those actually elicited.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures
Linn, Robert L., Ed. – 1993
This collection explores the theory and applications of educational testing. It is divided into sections on theory and general principles of educational measurement, administration of tests and scoring, and applications of testing. The following chapters present information on test theory and use: (1) "Current Perspectives and Future…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Cognitive Psychology
