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Sugrue, Brenda; Webb, Noreen; Schlackman, Jonah – 1998
This paper describes a study that investigated the interchangeability of four different assessment methods for measuring middle-school students' understanding of science concepts. The four methods compared were hands-on tasks with associated multiple-choice and written justification items, written analogues of the hands-on tasks, and two types of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Grade 7
National Academy of Education, Stanford, CA. – 1993
The National Academy of Education Panel is providing the intellectual leadership and coordination for an independent evaluation of the 1990 and 1992 Trial State Assessments (TSA) of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These instruments provide state-by-state comparisons of educational achievement, which is the first such use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students


