In March 1991, the College Standards and Accreditation Council (CSAC) Establishment Board, created by Canada's Minister of Education, proposed wide-ranging reforms for college education and training. This paper reviews some of the ways in which Algonquin College (AC), in Ontario, is planning to interface and articulate with CSAC initiatives to…

This report documents the activities undertaken to evaluate the federally sponsored prekindergarten program for educationally disadvantaged preschoolers conducted by the Saginaw, Michigan school district. This program, funded by Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, was serving 502 children at the beginning of the 1993…

This paper presents a technique for applying the Rule Space Model of cognitive diagnosis (Tatsuoka, 1983) to assessment in a semantically rich domain. Responses of 122 architects to 22 architecture test items developed to assess a range of architectural knowledge were analyzed using Rule Space. Verbal protocol analysis guided the construction of a…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP) 1992 reading assessment was administered to nationally representative samples of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students attending public and private schools, and to state representative public-school samples of fourth graders in 43 jurisdictions. Nearly 140,000 students were assessed in…

The 141 instruments in this bibliography include both single measures and series of measures which have been used to evaluate a variety of educational and other types of programs. Also in this list are measures of teacher and student perceptions of the value of certain aspects of the school curriculum. All ages are represented. This document is…

This report presents the State of South Carolina's vision and plan for coordinating special programs in mathematics and science education. The report is divided into two sections. The first section identifies four critical needs and lists systemic responses to those needs. The second section presents the criteria recommended for the State Plan for…

A crucial, but often forgotten, role of educational assessment is to enhance students' learning. This author advocates that an assessment program designed for student learning differs from assessment for accountability in purpose, test format, measurement type, number, and spread of tests, use of test results, and amount of interval between…

In March 1992, Wisconsin Act 269 established an educational goals-setting process, funding for the development of a comprehensive student-assessment system, and an advisory committee to make recommendations. The committee established three learner goals to be the focus of the mandated statewide assessment. Students will build a substantial…

This report characterizes human problem solving in digital circuit design. Protocols of 11 different designers with varying degrees of training were analyzed by identifying the designers' problem solving strategies and discussing activity patterns that differentiate the designers. These methods are proposed as a tentative basis for assessing…

In spring 1987, the Austin School Board approved the current student assignment plan that returned most elementary students to neighborhood schools and created 16 predominantly minority schools with most students from low-income families. A 5-year plan implemented in each of the 16 schools contained the following components: full-day…

America 2000, the national strategy proposed in 1991 by the Bush Administration to achieve six national education goals that were adopted in 1990 by President Bush and the Nation's Governors, consists of four broad components: the reform of current schools; the development of new school models; the enhancement of workers' skills; and the…

A consortium of South Carolina colleges and universities developed assessment programs which would fully satisfy state and accreditation assessment mandates and increase program quality and institutional effectiveness. A South Carolina Higher Education Assessment Network was established with a Coordinating Center at Winthrop College to provide…

This paper lists practices recommended by the Council for Exceptional Children's Division for Early Childhood concerning the promotion of cognitive skills in early intervention and early childhood special education programs for infants and young children with special needs and their families. An introductory section differentiates between three…

This paper lists practices recommended by the Council for Exceptional Children's Division for Early Childhood concerning the promotion of adaptive behavior skills in early intervention and early childhood special education programs for infants and young children with special needs and their families. An introductory section defines adaptive…

This paper offers examples of the ways in which research influences national policies related to assessment and program evaluation. It describes an ongoing evaluation being conducted by the National Academy of Education (NAE) of the "Trial State Assessment," a piece of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). At this interim stage,…