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Noble, Tracy; Rosebery, Ann; Suarez, Catherine; Warren, Beth; O'Connor, Mary Catherine – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) and their teachers, schools, and communities face increasingly high-stakes consequences due to test score gaps between ELLs and non-ELLs. It is essential that the field of educational assessment continue to investigate the meaning of these test score gaps. This article discusses the findings of an exploratory study…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Evidence, Educational Assessment, Achievement Gap
Rentner, Diane Stark; Kober, Nancy – Center on Education Policy, 2014
Later this school year, states that have adopted the voluntary Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are scheduled to begin testing students' progress in learning the content of the standards in mathematics and English language arts (ELA). Many of these states belong to one of two consortia--the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Mathematics Tests
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2014
This memorandum presents results from the Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation's (CSAI's) most recent scan of state assessment systems, with attention to changes from the previous school year to the 2014-2015 school year. CSAI derived the information reported in this memorandum from websites maintained by state, district, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Measurement, Common Core State Standards, Academic Standards
Conley, David T. – Jobs For the Future, 2014
Among education researchers, there is a growing consensus that college and career readiness depends on not just academic knowledge and skills but on a wide range of social and developmental competencies, as well--such as the ability to monitor one's own learning, persist at challenging tasks, solve complex problems, set realistic goals, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Public Officials, Educational Policy, College Readiness
May, Henry; Goldsworthy, Heather; Armijo, Michael; Gray, Abigail; Sirinides, Philip; Blalock, Toscha J.; Anderson-Clark, Helen; Schiera, Andrew J.; Blackman, Horatio; Gillespie, Jessica; Sam, Cecile – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2014
Reading Recovery is a short-term early intervention designed to help the lowest-achieving readers in first grade reach average levels of classroom performance in literacy. Students identified to receive Reading Recovery meet individually with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher every school day for 30-minute lessons over a period of 12 to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Early Intervention, Low Achievement
Giffin, Richard B.; Geddie, Mary; Moser, Ernest; Griffin, B. Wynne – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This paper is the second of a two part study comparing The Sixth Edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act as prepared and adopted by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)with the actual regulatory practice of the various jurisdictional boards of accountancy in place just prior to the release of the most recent NASBA…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Accounting, Federal Legislation, Educational Quality
Qian, Liu – Higher Education Studies, 2012
In the light of the problems existing in assessment of the course of "athletic physiology" in universities at present, this article makes reflections upon the assessment mode of students for this course and takes a general survey on development of the evaluation system by comprehensively employing both the quantitative method and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Exercise Physiology, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment
Miller, Louise – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This paper describes a student project assignment used in an accounting information systems course. We are now truly immersed in the internet age, and while many required accounting information systems courses and textbooks introduce database design, accounting software development, cloud computing, and internet security, projects involving the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Information Systems, Internet, Database Management Systems
Royce Sadler, D. – Education Inquiry, 2012
The terms assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have various interpretations in higher education. The first two, assessment and evaluation, share considerable conceptual ground and interconnected histories. Quality assurance, on the other hand, is a more recent development. The issue of academic achievement standards in particular has…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
Butz, Stephen D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research examined the education system at high-poverty schools that had significantly higher student achievement levels as compared to similar schools with lower student achievement levels. A multischool qualitative case study was conducted of the educational systems where there was a significant difference in the scores achieved on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Poverty, High Achievement, School Effectiveness
National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2012
The performance of special education students on state assessments has been the subject of much discussion and concern. A common belief is that all special education students perform poorly on state assessments. There are many misperceptions about the performance of students with disabilities. It is important for the Race-to-the-Top Assessment…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Assessment, Measurement, Performance
Young, JoAnn P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study was designed to examine and identify the site-based process that two elementary, independent schools, accredited by the Southern Association of Independent Schools use for curriculum and instructional development. Also, the study examined and identified the development and use of assessments to support each school's…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
McKinzie, Abasi H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study utilized the student scores of eighth-grade mathematics students on the "Discovery Education Assessment," as well as the self-efficacy perceptions of eighth-grade mathematics teachers as determined by the "Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale" ("TSES") from seven middle schools that encompassed grades 6-8…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Grade 8
Marty-Pearson, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At San Joaquin Valley College, a culture of cultivating student learning through assessment was created in response to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges-Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges requirements for Fall 2012. In General Education, promoting and developing this culture has been more difficult with faculty…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Communities of Practice
Allen, Ansgar – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
This paper argues that, despite the obvious and important differences between high-stakes and low-stakes assessment, there remain important points in common. These manifest themselves at a sociological level, where each tradition of assessment shares a similar disposition towards power. It is argued that both high-stakes and low-stakes assessment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Schools