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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
Lehrhaupt, Arthur – NJEA Review, 1972
Believes that the New Jersey Commission of Education's Policy of state-wide testing creates an atmosphere of repression against teachers'' and curbs imagination and innovation'' in children. (DS)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Intelligence Tests, State Government, State Legislation
Germuth, Amy A. – 2003
This primer is designed to help charter school leaders in Ohio in coordinating testing and test data reporting procedures as required by state and federal guidelines. The report discusses the roles and responsibilities of charter schools under Ohio's new accountability system and what charter schools need to know to administer the tests of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Mathis, William J. – 1977
The New Jersey department of education has implemented a minimum standards program to assure that all students have the individual opportunities they require for mastering the basic skills. The 1976-77 program is transitional and is used to build toward full implementation in the 1977-78 school year. In full operation, the state tests will be…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Sandifer, Paul D. – 1981
Some insights into the development of an eleventh grade test of "adult functional competency" are provided. The evolution of the test from its first mention to its translation into a test item pool is traced. An attempt is made to identify some of the instructional, measurement, and legal implications inherent in various decisions which…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grade 11, Graduation Requirements, Minimum Competency Testing
Stader, David L.; Lowe, Jerry M.; Neely, Robert – 2001
This report describes the Body of Evidence approach taken in Wyoming to implement standards-based graduation. The Body of Evidence plan calls for more than a single test to justify issuing a high school diploma. Graduation requirement rules, known as Chapter 31 rules, establish the requirements for a diploma. The body of evidence is to be…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
Clasby, Miriam; And Others – 1973
Three papers in this book place the current movement of accountability and State assessment in perspective and point to the emergence of a different set of "arrangements" for education than those normally accepted by Americans and a different way of framing goals for education. In the first paper, Miriam Clasby draws attention to the intended and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
NJEA Review, 1982
New Jersey Education Association policy regarding testing is presented. The policy recognizes the need of teachers, students, parents, and other decision-makers for continuous and comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis of student progress, but opposes the use of tests for denying opportunities, allocating school funds, evaluating teachers or…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
McMillan, James H.; Myran, Steve; Workman, Daryl – 1999
The impact of the new Virginia statewide Standards of Learning (SOL) testing program on classroom instructional and assessment practices was studied through surveys before and after implementation of the testing program. The sample represented responses from 570 secondary school teachers (of mathematics, social studies, English, and science) and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Instruction
Yakimowski, Mary; And Others – 1996
The goal of this paper, and the symposium it represents, is to provide an examination of the perspectives of district personnel from four diverse states. The papers present the current status of legislated student assessment programs in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Illinois. Similarities and differences in implementation methodology are…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Federal Legislation
Kentucky State Legislative Commission, Frankfort. – 1988
In 1986 the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation directing the Legislative Research Commission to appoint a special subcommittee, the Special Subcommittee on Essential Skills Testing, to study the Kentucky Essential Skills Testing Program (KEST) and to make recommendations concerning the program. This report presents the findings and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Improvement
Matter, M. Kevin – 1998
The Cherry Creek School district (Englewood, Colorado) is a growing district of 37,000 students in the Denver area. The 1988 Colorado State School Finance Act required district-set proficiencies (standards), and forced agreement on a set of values for student knowledge and skills. State-adopted standards added additional requirements for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Political Influences
Poggio, John P. – 1984
Kansas law requires setting passing scores for the reading and mathematics competency test for 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 11th grade students, administered annually since April of 1980. New objective-referenced tests are prepared each year. Both judgmental (Angoff, Ebel, and Nedelsky) methods and empirical (contrasting groups and borderline) methods…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing

Fisher, Thomas H.; And Others – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1985
The new Florida Master Teacher Program in which the state provides bonuses directly to qualified teachers is described. Three measurement issues in implementing the program are discussed: (1) evaluating a teacher's classroom performance; (2) evaluating a teacher's subject area knowledge; and (3) combining scores to determine which teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Job Performance, Merit Pay
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1996
The Texas Education Code requires the Commissioner of Education to develop and propose a system for evaluating the progress of students eligible for exemption from the statewide assessment program under current law. This report summarizes the proposed system for limited English proficient (LEP) students. It includes proposed changes to the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Limited English Speaking