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Download full textEvans, Carla M. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
Large-scale performance assessment programs are a longstanding reform tool. However, standard setting can be a challenge for assessment programs that use primarily non-standardized assessments. The purpose of this paper is to extend this field of research by explaining the standard setting methodology applied to one more recent instantiation of a…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, State Programs
Direct linkMohamud, Abdinur; Fleck, Dan – Theory Into Practice, 2010
The purpose of this article is to describe the process and development of English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards and assessment in Ohio and to discuss issues related to alignment. The article addresses the importance of alignment among standards, instruction, and assessment, as well as the effect of alignment on students' academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Alignment (Education)
Peer reviewedHunter, Darryl M.; Gambell, Trevor J. – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2000
Discusses the roles played by participants and the processes involved in a provincial standards-setting exercise for a large-scale assessment of student skills. Offers perspectives of a policy maker outside the exercise and an insider participant. Describes alternate notions of representativeness, stakes, and significance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Program Evaluation
Peters, Eileen – 1982
This 1982 supplement is a further elaboration to the Writing Assessment which was distributed in 1981 to assist schools in assessment of writing by detailing scoring procedures, standard-setting, and the reporting of results. The supplement deals with retesting, alternative methods for setting standards, establishing score equivalency on writing…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Guidelines
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
Using Actual Student Work To Determine Cut Scores for Proficiency Levels: New Methods for New Tests.
Kahl, Stuart R.; And Others – 1994
The accountability testing programs of many states have begun to make extensive use of constructed-response questions and to report test results in terms of percentages of students at various proficiency or performance levels. This paper describes the step-by-step procedures for two standard-setting methods recently used for the New Hampshire…
Descriptors: Accountability, Constructed Response, Cutting Scores, Educational Assessment
Goertz, Margaret E. – 1986
This report presents detailed state-by-state descriptions of the range of state policies affected by the current education reform movement. It begins by presenting a typology of standards imposed by education decision-makers at the state, district and local level. This typology was used to identify, collect, and describe state-prescribed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Cronin, John; Dahlin, Michael; Adkins, Deborah; Kingsbury, G. Gage – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
At the heart of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the call for all students to be "proficient" in reading and mathematics by 2014. Yet the law expects each state to define proficiency as it sees fit and design its own tests. This study investigated three research questions related to this policy: (1) How consistent are various…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Mathematics Tests, Test Validity, Reading Tests
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
