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PDF pending restorationNew Jersey State Office of Legislative Services, Trenton. Assembly Education Committee. – 1993
The Assembly Education Committee of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services held a hearing pursuant to Assembly Resolution 113, a proposal directing the Committee to investigate the skills testing program developed and administered to New Jersey children by the State Department of Education. The Committee was interested in the eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1998
The Colorado "Standards and Assessment Resource Bank" on CD-ROM contains updated information about the Colorado Student Assessment Program, the text of the "Standards-Based Classroom Operator's Manual," and a bank of standards-based units, assessments, and staff development materials submitted by Colorado teachers and school…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Optical Data Disks
Download full textFrench, Russell L.; Bobbett, Gordon C. – 1993
Report cards on schools have become common in many states, but their contents and formats vary widely. To study the variations and to determine if the differences in presentation have anything to do with presenting valuable data or with educational policy, a study was undertaken of the report cards of Southeastern states. Five states (Florida,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
New York State United Teachers. – 1991
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) established a Task Force on Student Assessment in the spring of 1990, which was designed to: review available information on testing principles and practices; make recommendations for reform of testing; and communicate its findings to NYSUT members. Ten recommendations were made, centering on the necessity…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1989
This booklet answers frequently asked questions about the Exit Examination that students in South Carolina must pass before they receive a high school diploma. As provided for by the Education Improvement Act of 1984, the State Board of Education adopted the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) objectives in 1985 as the basis for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Exit Examinations
Coleman, Geraldine J. – 1982
This is the second of six monographs on procedures developed to help local educators use and report Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test results. Because it annually provides student performance information on 10 essential skills in grades 3, 4 and 9, the MEAP test results can be an important aid to teachers in assessing individual…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Student Assessment Section. – 1979
The Florida Statewide Assessment Program, a result of the Educational Accountability Act of 1971, collects and reports information annually concerning student achievement in the basic skills areas of reading, writing, and mathematics. This publication was prepared for counselors and other school personnel as a resource manual with the following…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
O'Neal, Sandra W. – 1984
The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) battery are administered in New Mexico school districts as part of a state mandated assessment program. The tests are administered to students in grades three, five, and eight to measure achievement in the basic skills areas of reading, language, and mathematics. This report contains various types of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Spagnolo, Joseph A. – 1997
A state superintendent of education discusses standards from the point of view of a policymaker, acknowledging both educational and political elements. The objective for the policymaker is to take the work of researchers and educational theorists and make it something that practitioners and ultimately the public can understand. The first thing is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedGearhart, Maryl; Herman, Joan L. – Educational Assessment, 1998
Explores issues of whose work is actually being evaluated when raters outside the classroom context make judgments about students based on work composed with the support of peers, teachers, and parents. Data from an evaluation of a statewide assessment and a study of scoring elementary school writing portfolios illustrate the issues. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Education, Parent Influence, Peer Influence
Stevens, Joseph J.; Clauser, Patricia – 1996
Assessment results were examined for 2,351 students in a large Southwestern school district over a 4-year period. Assessment in the first year consisted of the full battery of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) administered to all third graders in the district. In the following year (grade four), the same students participated in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Guskey, Thomas R., Ed. – 1994
The perspectives in these essays present an examination of the Kentucky educational reform effort, with an examination of its rationale, various facets, and the reactions to its implementation. The ambitious assessment system includes multiple-choice and open-ended items, performance tasks, and portfolio assessments. The following are included:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Corbett, H. Dickson; Wilson, Bruce L. – 1990
This paper summarizes the results of a study of the local consequences of implementing statewide minimum competency tests. For American education to be the best in the world, the use of statewide and nationwide standardized testing as a primary policy tool for stimulating reform must be discontinued. Second, school district responses to such…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
Herman, Joan L.; And Others – 1994
A preliminary investigation has been made of some claims regarding alternative assessment. Using the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS)--Middle Grades Mathematics Performance Assessment as a platform, the study examined how alternative assessment operates in actual practice. Early findings are presented in the following areas: (1)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Cultural Differences, Educational Assessment
Rudner, Lawrence M.; Eissenberg, Thomas E. – 1989
This digest summarizes the results of the latest annual survey of state teacher testing programs. State directors of teacher testing programs were contacted in the summer of 1989 and asked to update the data compiled by the American Institutes for Research in 1988. Data indicate that: (1) states commonly use admission tests for applicants to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education
