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Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Koedel, Cory; Miller, Luke C.; Xu, Zeyu – Grantee Submission, 2017
Policies that require the use of information about student achievement to evaluate teacher performance are becoming increasingly common across the United States, but there is some question as to how or whether to use student test-based teacher evaluations when student assessments change. We bring empirical evidence to bear on this issue.…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
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Mary Hutchinson; Xenia Hadjioannou – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the public policy reshaping the assessment terrain for English learners (ELs) across the USA and to consider the implications and impact of these practices on sustaining and supporting a diverse student population in today's schools. Design/methodology/approach: The authors review the…
Descriptors: English Learners, Student Diversity, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Stotsky, Sandra – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
In this testimony, the author first describes her qualifications, as well as the lack of relevant qualifications in Common Core's standards writers and in most of the members of Common Core's Validation Committee, on which she served in 2009-2010. The author then details some of the many problems in the 2011 Massachusetts ELA standards, written by…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Standardized Tests, Language Arts, English Instruction
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Sheehan, Kathleen M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
The "TextEvaluator"® text analysis tool is a fully automated text complexity evaluation tool designed to help teachers and other educators select texts that are consistent with the text complexity guidelines specified in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This paper provides an overview of the TextEvaluator measurement approach and…
Descriptors: Automation, Evaluation Methods, Reading Material Selection, Common Core State Standards
Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2019
The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL), funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, examines how college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation. This brief presents findings from C-SAIL's…
Descriptors: State Standards, English Instruction, Language Arts, Mathematics Instruction
Doorey, Nancy; Polikoff, Morgan – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
Approximately one-third of American freshmen at two-year and four-year colleges require remedial coursework and over 40 percent of employers rate new hires with a high school diploma as "deficient" in their overall preparation for entry-level jobs. Yet, over the past decade, as these students marched through America's public education…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Test Items, Evaluation Criteria