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Download full textBeaton, Albert E.; Linn, Robert L.; Bohrnstedt, George W. – American Institutes for Research, 2012
The judgmental approaches used by the Governing Board to set National Assessment of Educational Progress achievement levels have been the subject of a great deal of controversy and have sometimes led to results that were considered "unreasonable." The NCES requirement that the achievement levels be used on a trial basis and be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests, Benchmarking, Performance Based Assessment
Direct linkPitoniak, Mary J.; Yeld, Nan – International Journal of Testing, 2013
Criterion-referenced assessments have become more common around the world, with performance standards being set to differentiate different levels of student performance. However, use of standard setting methods developed in the United States may be complicated by factors related to the political and educational contexts within another country. In…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Criterion Referenced Tests, Benchmarking, Student Evaluation
Adamson, Lena; Becerro, Maria; Cullen, Peter; Gonzalez-Vega, Laureano; Sobrino, Juan Jose; Ryan, Norma – ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education), 2010
Learning outcomes are described as written statements of what a learner is expected to know, understand and/or be able to do at the end of a period of learning. At the beginning of the 90s, a EU pilot project on ECTS showed that study programmes were much easier to compare if they were described in terms of outcomes, instead of inputs. The…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Stakeholders, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedResnick, Lauren B.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1995
The New Standards Project has designed research to describe educational standards in other countries using an ethnographic case-study approach. Data review and analysis are organized by fundamental questions, the answers to which constitute a contextualized account of what students are expected to know and be able to do. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Benchmarking, Case Studies, Data Analysis
Marzano, Robert J. – 1996
This digest presents eight questions that pertain to how standards-based education affects classroom instruction and assessment at the local level. Various options and recommendations are provided to help education officials determine the practical concerns of standards-based education. The following questions are explored: (1) where will the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
Meyers, Ronald, Ed. – 1998
This resource text was developed to assist parents, teachers, school administrators, school board personnel, and other concerned citizens in their efforts to develop and implement local education standards. Having drawn heavily upon Internet-accessible resources for the development and implementation of educational standards, the text is intended…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning
