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Popham, W. James – 2000
This book is intended to help parents understand more about the tests their children take in school. The pros and cons of different types of tests are explained, and the proper use of standardized tests is discussed. Each chapter contains a brief summary of the topic, with follow-up activities and a list of resources a parent could bring to the…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Parents
Peer reviewedShepard, Lorrie A.; Bliem, Carribeth L. – Educational Researcher, 1995
Parental attitudes about standardized tests and performance assessments were studied through interviews with 60 parents or parent dyads in schools involved in a project to develop new assessments and through questionnaires completed by parents from control schools. Parent approval of standardized tests did not imply disapproval of performance…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textShepard, Lorrie A.; Bleim, Caribeth L. – 1995
Parent opinions about standardized tests and performance assessments were examined systematically. Mutually exclusive but randomly equivalent stratified samples from schools participating in a study of performance assessment and control schools were used to measure change in parent opinion over time. Approximately one-third of parents (n=105)…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beliefs, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Shepard, Lorrie A.; Bliem, Carribeth L. – 1993
As part of a larger study of implementation of alternative assessment, a survey of parent opinions about standardized tests and performance assessments was conducted in three elementary schools. In the three participating schools, 3rd-grade teachers attended workshops on assessment development and implemented these practices in their classrooms.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
