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Download full textEgalite, Anna J.; Stallings, D. T.; Porter, Stephen R. – AERA Open, 2020
The North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program is a private school voucher program that provides state-funded vouchers worth up to $4,200 to eligible students entering kindergarten through 12th grade. Because the public and private school sectors administer different assessments, we recruited approximately 700 students to take a common,…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Aid, State Programs, Private Schools
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2012
This "Report Card to the Public" is published in accordance with Alaska Statute 14.03.120 for the school year 2011-2012. Under state law, each school district is required to report information about its plans and performance to its community. This report includes a statewide summary of performance results. It reports the status of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, School Districts, Academic Achievement
Wisconsin State Legislative Audit Bureau, Madison. – 1998
The Wisconsin legislature has required the Department of Public Instruction to adopt or approve standardized tests for statewide use to measure student attainment of knowledge and concepts in grades 4, 8, and 10. Although school districts generally gave high ratings to the contents of TerraNova (McGraw Hill), the testing instrument most recently…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education, State Legislation
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – Research in the Schools, 2001
Examined the relationship between school system financial and demographic data and student achievement in the science section of the 1998 Tennessee statewide Terra Nova tests. Results indicate that while many schools had science scale score achievement higher than expected based on system demographics, others should examine a variety of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Class Size, Educational Finance, School Demography
Fenton, Ray – 2003
This overview of the Alaska system for test development, scoring, and reporting explored differences and similarities between norm-referenced and standards-based tests. The current Alaska testing program is based on legislation passed in 1997 and 1998, and is designed to meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Legislation. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Norm Referenced Tests, State Programs
La Marca, Paul M. – 1999
This summary provides key findings about state, district, and school level performance on the TerraNova examinations (CTB/McGraw Hill) in Nevada in 1998-1999. The TerraNova tests are used to assess students in grades 4, 8, and 10 as stipulated by Nevada law. Within this summary, a description of performance as measured by national percentile…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
