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Guidance for Developing and Selecting Assessments of Student Growth for Use in Teacher Evaluation Systems (Extended Version)
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Herman, Joan L.; Heritage, Margaret; Goldschmidt, Pete – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2011
States and districts across the country are grappling with how to incorporate assessments of student learning into their teacher evaluation systems. Sophisticated statistical models have been proposed to estimate the relative value individual teachers add to their students' assessment performance (hence the term teacher "value-added" measures).…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Testing, Test Selection, Test Construction
Developing and Selecting Assessments of Student Growth for Use in Teacher Evaluation Systems
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Herman, Joan L.; Heritage, Margaret; Goldschmidt, Pete – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2011
States and districts across the country are grappling with how to incorporate assessments of student learning into their teacher evaluation systems. Sophisticated statistical models have been proposed to estimate the relative value individual teachers add to their students' assessment performance (hence the term teacher "value-added" measures).…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Testing, Test Selection, Test Construction
Benchmark Assessment for Improved Learning. AACC Report
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Herman, Joan L.; Osmundson, Ellen; Dietel, Ronald – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2010
This report describes the purposes of benchmark assessments and provides recommendations for selecting and using benchmark assessments--addressing validity, alignment, reliability, fairness and bias and accessibility, instructional sensitivity, utility, and reporting issues. We also present recommendations on building capacity to support schools'…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
Developing Reading and Listening Comprehension Tests Based on the Sentence Verification Technique (SVT).
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Royer, James M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Describes a team-based approach for creating Sentence Verification Technique (SVT) tests, a development procedure that allows teachers and other school personnel to develop comprehension tests from curriculum materials in use in their schools. Finds that if tests are based on materials that are appropriate for the population to be tested, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Listening Comprehension Tests, Reading Tests
Constructing Unbiased Achievement Tests.
Ebel, Robert L. – 1975
The approach characterizing this study of bias in tests of educational achievement is stated to be reflective and philosophical rather than experimental and statistical. Its concern is with operationally definable areas of learning and indicators of achievement rather than with the hypothetical latent traits that are presumed by some to influence…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Culture Fair Tests, Educational Testing
Measuring Student Growth: Techniques and Procedures for Occupational Education.
Erickson, Richard C.; Wentling, Tim L. – 1976
Designed for current and future occupational instructors, counselors, and administrators, the comprehensive measurement text is directed toward all subject areas in occupational education--industrial, business/distributive, home economics, agriculture, health occupations, and personal/public services. It offers necessary guidelines to select,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Business Education, Educational Testing