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Kendall, John S.; Dandapani, Nitara; Cicchinelli, Louis F. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
A quality data management system, such as an education management information system (EMIS), a state longitudinal data system, or a data warehouse, is key to ensuring that education policy, planning, and strategy decisions are grounded in accurate information (Data Quality Campaign, 2010; Mohamed, Kadir, May-Lin, Rahman, & Arshad, 2009;…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Policy, Educational Planning
Blagg, Kristin – Urban Institute, 2016
Many US education reform efforts focus on student performance in large, urban school districts. The National Assessment of Educational Progress's Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) program provides data on student achievement in these districts, but differences in student characteristics complicate comparisons of district performance. I use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Change
New York State Education Department, 2016
By August 1st of each year, each charter school in New York State is required by law to complete and submit an Annual Report to the New York State Education Department (NYSED) Charter School Office (CSO) and to the school's charter entity, and to post the report on the charter school's website. The Annual Report Guidelines include general…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Charter Schools, State Regulation, State Policy
Detweiler, Rita J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
School leaders in the United States live in an educational era characterized by a desire for and expectation that all students attain high levels of academic proficiency. There is an increased reliance on all types of educational assessment as a key component to help school leaders attain that goal. The purpose of this study is to understand how…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Mathematics Tests, Elementary School Mathematics, Academic Achievement
Shewbridge, Claire; Ehren, Melanie; Santiago, Paulo; Tamassia, Claudia – OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2012
This book provides, from an international perspective, an independent analysis of major issues facing the educational evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches in Luxembourg.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Assessment
Smith, Derrick W.; Amato, Sheila – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2012
Because of the mandates found in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that specifically focus on assessment, most states have developed a set of policies that focus on the types of accommodations that can be provided to students with disabilities. Students with visual impairments require a unique set of accommodations. Braille and large…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Visual Impairments, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Assessment
Informing in the Information Age: How to Communicate Measurement Concepts to Education Policy Makers
Sireci, Stephen G.; Forte, Ellen – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2012
Current educational policies rely on educational assessments. However, the technical aspects of assessments are often unknown to policy makers, which is dangerous because sound assessment policy requires knowledge of the strengths and limitations of educational tests. In this article, we discuss the importance of informing policy makers of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Psychometrics, Educational Policy, Educational Testing
Lum, Gerard – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2012
It is sometimes said that there has been a "paradigm shift" in the field of assessment over the last two or three decades: a new preoccupation with what learners can do, what they know or what they have achieved. It is suggested in this article that this change has precipitated a need to distinguish two conceptually and logically…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Philosophy, Student Evaluation
Stake, Robert E. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
In this paper, the author talks about some recent developments in the methodology of program evaluation and about what he calls "responsive evaluation." He discusses two models for program evaluation, namely (1) informal study or self-study; and (2) the pretest/posttest model. Then, he describes an approach that he has been working on, which will…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Models, Educational Assessment
Turkan, Sultan; Oliveri, Maria Elena – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
In this article, we review translation, adaptation policies, and practices in providing test accommodation for English language learners (ELLs) in the United States. We collected documents and conducted interviews with officials in the 12 states that provide translation accommodations to ELLs on content assessments. We then summarized challenges…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Testing Accommodations, Translation, Media Adaptation
Chow, Kui Foon; Kennedy, Kerry John – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
International large-scale assessments are now part of the educational landscape in many countries and often feed into major policy decisions. Yet, such assessments also provide data sets for secondary analysis that can address key issues of concern to educators and policymakers alike. Traditionally, such secondary analyses have been based on a…
Descriptors: Measurement, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Multivariate Analysis
Hoffman, Jessica L.; Teale, William H.; Paciga, Kathleen A. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
There is widespread agreement with in the field of early childhood education that vocabulary is important to literacy achievement and that reading aloud can support vocabulary growth. However, there are unexplored and significant problems with the ways we assess young children's vocabulary learning from read-alouds. This paper critically reviews…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Reading Aloud to Others
Liu, Shuiyun; Yu, Hui – Higher Education Studies, 2014
This paper analyzes a higher education policy issued in China in 2002: "the Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education Policy." It examines students' perceptions of the policy impacts and students' roles in the evaluation process by semi-structured interviews and questionnaire surveys. It reveals that the quality assessment in China…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Friebel, Harry – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
This article addresses the change in the transitional process from secondary school general education to gainful employment within the framework of societal modernisation processes in Germany. We analyse the relationship between the options for and restrictions upon individual educational mobility under the conditions imposed by the various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Educational Mobility, Transitional Programs
Williams, Peter; Wray, Jane; Farrall, Helen; Aspland, Jo – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
Recent years have seen unprecedented growth in the size, diversity and academic orientation of undergraduate student populations. There is evidence that the use of innovative pedagogies using information and communications technology has the potential to address such student diversity by offering opportunities for a more personalised student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Special Education, Student Needs