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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
Camayd-Freixas, Yohel; Donahue, Maryellen F. – 1987
This report is designed to provide numerical data about student performance on the curriculum of the Boston (Massachusetts) Public Schools (BPS) as measured by curriculum referenced tests (CRTs). BPS Department of Educational Testing analyzed data from the 1986 CRT final exams in: reading and language arts (grades K-8), high school English (six…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Schulz, E. Matthew; Mitzel, Howard C. – Online Submission, 2005
A new standard setting method, Mapmark, was recently developed by ACT Inc. in the course of a contract with the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) to set achievement levels for the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Grade 12 mathematics. Mapmark includes elements of the bookmark method (Lewis, Mitzel, & Green, 1996;…
Descriptors: Validity, Standard Setting (Scoring), Formative Evaluation, Grade 12
National Education Goals Panel, Washington, DC. – 1996
This "Profile" offers a snapshot of state assessment systems by describing some of their fundamental characteristics. Its focus is on what individual states are doing in terms of developing their own standards and assessments and how they report these results. Two pages of information are presented for each state (but not for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment