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Download full textPetry, John R., Ed. – 2001
This volume contains abstracts of the approximately 200 discussion papers, symposia, displays, and training sessions of the 2001 annual meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA). Papers deal with elementary, secondary, and higher education and cover a broad spectrum of educational issues. Although many papers focus on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conferences, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Petry, John R., Ed.; McCree, Herbert L., Ed. – 1996
This volume contains abstracts of the more than 250 discussion papers, symposia, displays, and training sessions presented at the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA) 1996 annual meeting. Papers deal with elementary, secondary, and higher education, and cover a broad spectrum of educational issues. Although many papers focus on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conferences, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Petry, John R., Ed.; Allen, Lorraine, Ed.; Brignole, Mary, Ed. – 1999
This volume contains abstracts of the more than 300 discussion papers, symposia, displays, and training sessions presented at the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA) 1999 annual meeting. Papers deal with elementary, secondary, and higher education and cover a broad spectrum of educational issues. Although many papers focus on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conferences, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Land, Robert – Evaluation Comment, 1997
Assessment systems to measure high educational standards emerged as the major theme at the 1996 conference of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), "Moving Up to Complex Assessment." This feature article, providing a summation of the proceedings of the conference, reports that the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Technology
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Washington, DC. – 1997
High stakes assessment involves testing students for purposes such as grade level retention or advancement, high school graduation, selection for special programs or services, or for other "high stakes" consequences. Issues surrounding the high stakes assessment of English language learners (ELLs) were the focus of an August 1997 invitational…
Descriptors: Conferences, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Petry, John R., Ed.; And Others – 1995
The Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA), organized in 1972, is a nonprofit organization with the purposes of encouraging quality educational research in the mid-South and promoting the application of the results of quality educational research in the schools. This volume contains abstracts of more than 300 discussion papers,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conferences, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedFagan, Edward R. – English Education, 1985
Offers different perspectives of the conference topics that were discussed at the 1984 meeting of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE): language and English teacher education, language and competence, language and tests, language and schooling, language and technology, and language and technological overkill. (HOD)
Descriptors: Conferences, English Instruction, English Teacher Education, Global Approach
Peer reviewedEisner, Elliot W. – Educational Researcher, 1993
Briefly reviews presentations from the Invitational Conference on Curriculum (Washington, DC, June 10, 1993), on "Hidden Consequences of a National Curriculum." None of the five presenters saw a national curriculum as the solution to the nation's educational problems. Also addressed is the need for programs acknowledging perspectives of…
Descriptors: Conferences, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Educational Change
Baker, Eva L. – 1980
In the spring of 1979, the National Institute of Education, in collaboration with the United States Office of Education, the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE), and members of a nation-wide network of research and development agencies, sponsored a national colloquy on the theme that testing could have an important impact in improving…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Conferences, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Stansfield, Charles W.; Kenyon, Dorry Mann – 1988
The report of the Interagency Language Roundtable's invitational symposium on language aptitude testing consists of a description of the project and appendixes which include the following: (1) the symposium program and abstracts of papers; (2) a list of participants; and (3) summaries of the discussions of three working groups (on applications,…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Aptitude Tests, Artificial Languages
