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Topic: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program
The source of most of the opposition to educational assessment is fear on the part of administrators and teachers that assessment will be used as an instrument of evaluation. Assessment plans make it impossible to identify individual teachers or schools. Thus, the fear that someone may be penalized because of a bad assessment is not realistic. Furthermore, all school systems at present do a great deal of testing. If school authorities wanted to use test results as evaluating instruments, they...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, State Programs, State Surveys, Selden, David
Description based on: 1989
Topics: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program, Educational tests and measurements, Education
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A test was developed so that right and wrong answer subtestscould be compared. A clear pattern emerged which supportedthe a priori construct validity assumptions. The results weresufficiently conclusive to apparently refute the assumption oftenmade or implied that "wrong answers contain no achievementinformation not included in the right answers or subtests thereof."
Topics: Educational Assessment, Testing Theory, Wrong Answer Analysis, Bloom's Taxonomy
Evaluation has generally not been accountable in terms of its promoting a "net-benefit." The term "net-benefit" rather than "benefit" is used because a given amount of legitimate benefit may come at the expense of an inordinate expenditure of evaluation resources or energy. If any aspect of an evaluation is unlikely to provide any net-benefit to humanity as far as the overall evaluation is concerned, then it probably shouldn't be done given the relative scarcity of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Meta Evaluation
Description based on: 1987
Topics: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program, Educational evaluation, Educational tests and...
The implications of the concept of fairness, to the level of the day-to-day business of the educational evaluator is explored. Section 2 presents a brief critical examination of the notion of objectivity in evaluation, and introduces the concept of fairness as an alternative focus for qualitative evaluation. In Section 3, there is a discussion of the ways in which the notion of fairness might be applied when an evaluation is being conducted. The issues addressed in this section include...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Objectivity
This webinar discussed the importance of the instructional sensitivity of assessments and encouraged dialogue about how the use of results from instructionally sensitive assessments can promote teacher effectiveness. This Q&A addressed the questions participants had for Dr. Popham following the webinar. The webinar recording and PowerPoint presentation are also available.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Test Results
Description based on: 1989
Topics: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program, Educational tests and measurements, Education
The evaluation of educational programs is often inconsistent with the need for imaginative innovations for educational improvement. Premature evaluation, preoccupation with "hard data" developed by the mass use of standardized tests, concern only for final results, lack of imagination, requirements that all projects in a program make provisions for evaluation, and a tendency to construe tentative findings as proof add to the failure of many educational evaluations. The need for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Problems, Evaluation Needs, Program Evaluation
Recommendations to increase the relevance of information, improve the communication of information, and increase user responsiveness to information are presented. Recommendations include the following: (1) the Department of Education (ED) should institute a flexible planning system for evaluations of federal education programs; (2) congressional requests for evaluation should identify the kind of question(s) to be addressed; (3) in evaluation initiated by the ED, the kinds of evaluation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Federal Programs, Improvement Programs, Program Evaluation
This report is the third revision of Legislation by the States: Accountability and Assessment in Education, which has been prepared under the sponsorship of the Cooperative Accountability Project. The last updating was completed in August, 1973. The present report differs from previous editions in that Section 1 contains an expanded discussion of accountability legislation and a general description of the kinds of laws that were enacted from 1963 through 1974. More specifically, this section...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Description based on: 1987
Topics: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program, Educational evaluation, Educational tests and...
This thesaurus to the evaluation field is not restricted to educational evaluation or to program evaluation, but also refers to product, personnel, and proposal evaluation, as well as to quality control, the grading of work samples, and to all the other areas in which disciplined evaluation is practiced. It contains many suggestions, procedures, comments, criticisms, definitions and distinctions. Criteria for inclusion of an entry were: (1) at least a few participants in workshops or classes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Definitions, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Thesauri
"November 1988."
Topics: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program, Educational evaluation, Educational tests and...
This pamphlet provides current information about the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading. In addition to describing the purpose and goals of the NAEP, the pamphlet discusses the reasons for assessing reading, the 1992 NAEP in Reading (including recent changes), the guidelines used to create a framework for reading assessment, what the 1992 NAEP in Reading will examine, and how the results will be used. In addition, the pamphlet describes special studies to be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, National Programs,...
The Office of Desegregation of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Public School District was given the responsibility for developing an instrument to evaluate the implementation of educational equity in the district pursuant to federal court desegregation mandates. Office of Desegregation personnel invited in Center for Academic Excellence staff of the University of Central Arkansas to collaborate in constructing the instrument. After outlining the goals of the endeavor, the team agreed to the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Desegregation Plans, Educational Assessment, Equal Education, Item Banks, Program...
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Topics: Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program, Educational evaluation, Educational tests and...
There is a growing body of literature in the ERIC data base pertaining to state educational assessment and testing programs. Volume I of this bibliography includes abstracts of 39 documents and journal articles describing the design and implementation of programs, as well as the technical and political issues which have been addressed by the states. Volume II is a state-by-state annotated listing of 130 descriptive and technical reports issued by states which have had or now have testing or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Assessment, State Programs, Test Results,...
This report summarizes accountability activities and initiatives submitted by Illinois' 48 community colleges in their accountability/program review reports for fiscal year 2001. Through program review, the colleges examine targeted program areas and services to assess their ability to meet their intended purpose in a cost-effective, high-quality manner. Each year, colleges also address selected focus areas of particular relevance to state-level issues and concerns. Highlights include: (1)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Enrollment, Institutional...
This Critical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet focuses on assessment. Assessment has been a major trend in higher education over the last 10 years, with the nature of the literature changing significantly over the years. This annotated bibliography groups assessment resources into these categories: (1) general resources; (2) institutional assessment; (3) assessment and the learning environment; (4) methods and techniques; and (5) statewide, regional, and national approaches. This bibliography...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Higher...
This paper attempts to provide practical guidance to those individuals responsible for selecting or developing instruments for assessment programs. The question of what to measure in an assessment program is addressed at a global and a specific level. Once a developer has identified the areas to be assessed, it is necessary to consider the reporting plans for the program. Whether reporting is by group or individual, the nature of the reporting planned and the types of instruments needed to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Test Construction, Test Selection,...
This paper is a primer on sampling procedures for statewide assessment. The careful reader should gain substantial knowledge about the promises and pitfalls of sampling for assessment. The primer has three basic objectives: (1) to define terms and concepts basic to sampling theory and its application, including population, sampling unit, sampling frame, probability sampling procedures, estimate, population parameter and estimator, estimator bias, variance, mean square error and efficiency, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Definitions, Educational Assessment, Guides, Objectives, Sampling, State Surveys,...
Educational policy issues must be seen as statements of intention, with the practice issues of accountability kept separate. Accountability should not be juxtaposed to school improvement. Instead, accountability should be defined broadly as doing the things that improve practice so that the intended results can be achieved. If there is no balance in the definition of accountability, then it will merely result in scorekeeping. School improvement must drive the standards and assessment process or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Practices,...
A continuity principle is suggested for scaling of assessment scores from different levels of a multilevel mastery training program. In such training programs students are self-paced and work at levels of tasks appropriate for their levels of performance. The problem addressed in this report concerns the scaling of assessment scores at different levels so as to form a single basic scale. The solution proposed here involves relative scalings of the scores at different levels so that the mean...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computation, Educational Assessment, Mastery Learning, Performance Factors, Scaling,...
Reporting the results of statewide assessment looms as a problem as more states pass from the planning to implementation phase in their assessment programs. When energies are focused on the purpose of the assessment, formulating objectives, and instrument construction, reporting takes a back seat because it happens last. There are some general principles to be followed in order to report effectively the results of a large scale assessment program. This paper begins with several recent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Guidelines, Information Dissemination, Program Descriptions,...
The Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP), part of the U.S. Department of Education, is one of the most important federal mechanisms for recognizing quality in education. Although it has reviewed close to 700 projects in its 15-year history, the JDRP is still not widely known in the field of evaluation. This paper analyzes the JDRP process and its evaluation practices and contrasts it with evaluation criteria of the National Science Teachers Association and with effective schools research....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This document includes the results of Maine's 2003-2004 study examining actions taken by 18 school districts in response to the challenges of developing a Local Assessment System (LAS) using the principles and criteria set forth in the "LAS Guide" distributed to school districts in June, 2003. The report is organized into three parts: (1) Introduction, (2) Results, and (3) Implications. The report details the rationale for the study, the methodology used, an analysis of results, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, State Standards, Academic Standards, School Districts, Educational Assessment,...
The major potentials and pitfalls of adversary evaluation in education are discussed. Reasons why the courtroom model may have limited utility, and the difficulties in the debate model are identified. It is argued that the existence of opposing viewpoints is the core of adversary evaluation, not adherence to existing formats for presenting contrasting views. It is suggested that educational evaluators might develop more appropriate adversary methods tailored specifically for the field of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods,...
The aim of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Supplementary Frame Assessment is to locate and assess samples of seventeen-year-olds no longer participating in the regular school curriculum. In this way a sample representative of the entire age group may be obtained for assessment purposes. Phase I of the study dealt with the acquisition of lists of eligible individuals from their high schools, while Phase II involves their location and assessment. Methods for obtaining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Educational Assessment, Field Interviews, Individual Testing, Out...
In evaluation of the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I compensatory education programs, both the federal reporting mandate (using formal evaluation) and local needs (using informal evaluation) must be served. In Chicago Public Schools, computerized processing of standardized test scores allows the reporting requirement to be met with a minimum of staff and time. The bulk of staff and time are used to gather information about program implementation and conduct at the local schools. This...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education,...
The dimensions of educational evaluation include conceptualization and technology of evaluation. The methods have been drawn from the area of educational and psychological research. The techniques of evaluation need to serve the information needs of clients, address the central value issues, deal with situational realities, meet requirements of probity, and satisfy needs for veracity. Many researchers have developed new methodology. There is a need to alert evaluators to the availability of new...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Researchers, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods,...
One model of educational needs assessment stresses: (1) deciding what students should learn in school, (2) measuring whether they learn it, and (3) looking at gaps between desired learnings and actual learnings to identify educational needs and priorities. In this study, it was assumed that practically all students should master consumer-producer-citizen arithmetic applications prior to leaving school. Data from the 1970 and 1971 testing programs showed how New Hampshire grade 10 students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Arithmetic, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Money Management, Test...
The state of the "Standards for Evaluation of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials" is discussed. The standards were designed by a 17-member Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation to insure an ethical approach to the evaluation of educational programs and personnel. There are four major categories of standards. Utility standards are intended to guide evaluations so that they will be informative, timely, and influential. Feasibility standards recognize that an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Codes of Ethics, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Utilization, Personnel...
It is assumed that the delineation of values is critical to proper needs assessments. "Need" is defined as a requisite or desideratum generated as a discrepancy between a target state (T) and an actual state (A), if and only if the presence of the conditions defined by T can be shown significantly to harm, indispose, or constrain a subject (S). There are at least five points at which value judgments impinge upon needs determination. They are: (1) the identification of the domain of T;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Needs Assessment,...
Growing demands for accountability and useful measurement of educational outcomes have contributed to increasing efforts to develop or refine more valid and reliable methods of educational assessment. More states are designing high-quality indicator systems for evaluation at the school, district, and state levels. Seven recommendations derived from research and practice for developing practical indicator systems are presented in this educational policy bulletin, with a focus on defining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation...
The author begins his discussion of accountability with an examination of its development, including its historical origins and the role of the federal government. The evolution of accountability programs at the state level is also considered. Included are brief indications of the directions taken by Pennsylvania, Florida, Colorado, and Michigan. Before concluding with a discussion of the continuing challenge accountability presents to educators, the author takes a brief look at the negative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, State...
This handbook from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education is a bridge between the Commissions standards for accreditation and the practical challenges of planning, assessment, and continuous improvement. The handbook and its companion Web site offer extensive resources, including exercises, examples form assessment practices, and guidelines that can be used on campus for self-reflection, brainstorming, and workshop exercises. The sections are: (1) "Motivating and Involving Campus...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Educational Assessment,...
This cognitive/performance module is designed to teach the use of diagnostic techniques beyond those techniques provided by traditional mass testing. Terminal objectives include: (a) identifying a learning goal, (b) identifying a child who cannot successfully accomplish the learning goal, (c) diagnosing the child's learning strengths and weaknesses and presenting these to a team of peers, and (d) trying instructional activities with the child and providing feedback to peers who designed the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Development, Course Objectives, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational...
Project ROME-FOCUS (results-oriented management in education--field-oriented, competency utilization system) is a field-oriented, competency-based instructional program for school administrators pursuing the sixth-year degree at Valdosta State College. It represents an effort to develop and execute a training program that focuses on a group of 80 competencies. Competency is conceived of as the school administrator's demonstrated ability to identify and solve a high priority problem. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Competency Based Education, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment,...
This paper considers how to respond to new requirements for adequate disclosure of the schools' performance to the public. It proposes the use of three powerful constructs--quality control, quality assurance, and an independent educational accomplishment audit (IEAA). The essential elements of quality control are agreeing on and specifying desired outcomes of instruction (the standards), translating the desired outcomes into measurable objectives or verifiable proxy experiences (the design),...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education,...
The report describes the development and use of the Educational Assessment of Social Interaction (EASI), part of project REACH (Regular Education for All Children with Handicaps). The EASI is intended for program evaluation rather than individual student evaluation. The scale, originally developed to measure interactions among severely disabled and nondisabled students in integrated settings, measures social interactions in terms of four major dimensions: (1) role (initiate/acknowledge), (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Interaction Process Analysis, Mainstreaming, Peer Acceptance,...
Contributing to the debate on the nature of the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, this report discusses three proposals that would establish standards of performance for vocational education and analyzes experiences from performance standards implemented as part of other social and educational programs, such as the Job Training Partnership Act, Chapter 1, minimum competency testing, and merit pay for teachers. The proposals examined are those contained in H.R. 7...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Federal Aid, Program...
During its first 14 years of existence, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was located at the Education Commission of the States (ECS). This annotated bibliography of 575 references lists all major publications by or about NAEP published between 1969 and 1983. References are in a classified arrangement, by specific or special assessment. Documents not dealing with a specific assessment are grouped by: Methodological Publications; Special Analyses; and General and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Assessment, National Surveys, Outcomes of...
The way forward to better assessment begins with the conception of assessment not as a single test but as a coherent "system" of measures. Coherent systems must be composed of valid measures of learning and be horizontally, developmentally, and vertically aligned to serve classroom, school, and district improvement. Coherent assessment systems are comprised of component measures that each reflect significant learning goals and provide accurate information for intended purposes. This...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Educational Testing, Systems Approach,...
Educational assessment is reasoning from observations of what students do or make in a handful of particular circumstances, to what they know or can do more broadly. Practice has changed a great deal over the past century, in response to evolving conceptions of knowledge and its acquisition, views of schooling and its purposes, and technologies for gathering and evaluating response data. Conceptions of what constitutes assessment data, how it should be interpreted, and what kind of inferences...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education,...
Louisiana Educational Assessment Program for the 21st Century (LEAP 21) is an integral part of the Louisiana school and district accountability system passed by the state legislature and signed into law in 1997. In March 2004, students in grade 8 took LEAP 21 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies tests. This document presents student work in the Mathematics test, which was completed as part of a LEAP 21 assessment. The document includes examples of multiple--choice...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Test Items, Educational Quality, Educational...
The School-Age Parenting and Infant Development (SAPID) Program Quality Review (PQR) Instrument focuses on multiple uses related to California's SAPID programs. SAPID programs provide: (1) education for the school-age parent, including classes in parenting education, opportunities for career development, and high school graduation; and (2) care and development services for infants of school-age parents, including education, stimulation, health screening and treatment, and other vital provisions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Parenthood, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Infants, Measurement...
This Digest addresses the benefits of formative assessment and provides examples and resources to support its implementation. Formative assessment is the diagnostic use of assessment to provide feedback to teachers and students over the course of instruction. Since the goal of formative assessment is to gain an understanding of what students know and dont know in order to make responsive changes in teaching and learning, techniques such as teacher observation and classroom discussion have an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization,...
This document describes an accelerated school project adopted in 1993 at the Blanche Pope Elementary School in the rural Oahu community of Waimanalo, Hawaii. The project is based on the key concept of "powerful learning," a belief that the education provided for gifted and talented children works well for all children. Every learning experience has three interrelated dimensions--what is learned, how it is learned, and the context in which it is learned. Two key processes used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acceleration (Education), Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Elementary...
This policy brief draws on research and evaluations of efforts in Tennessee, California, and Wisconsin to describe different approaches to reducing class size in kindergarten through third grade. Tennessee implemented a randomized experiment to investigate the effectiveness of smaller classes; California used a statewide approach; and Wisconsin targeted class-size reduction as part of an effort to increase achievement in high-poverty schools. Tennessee's STAR program provides the strongest...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments,...
This paper makes the case that the intensifying pressure to assess higher educational outcomes objectively must be balanced by the inclusion of professional judgment. Mere numbers cannot tell the whole story of educational achievement. The tenacious attachment to positivism distances assessment and quality improvement from more inclusive ways of knowing. Assessment and quality improvement cannot avoid the knotty problem of how reality is discerned. The two key principles of positivism, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques,...
Computers are revolutionizing almost every aspect of society and testing is no exception. Delivering tests on a computer often improves exam security, testing efficiency, and scoring, and it often allows for measurement of knowledge, skills, and abilities that cannot be measured using traditional assessment formats. One of the most widely cited benefits of computer-based testing is the ability to use the computer to tailor the test to specific characteristics of an examinee. This chapter...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Assistive Technology, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational...
As strongly suggested by recent work, patterns of gender difference can change because of changes in the selectivity of the sample itself. This is a statistical influence connected with the distributions of female and male scores, rather than a substantive influence related to demographic characteristics of the sample such as age or ethnicity. It is, nonetheless, an important influence because gender differences that are partly statistical in origin can easily confuse possible implications...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Educational Assessment, Models, Sampling, Scores, Selection, Sex...
As part of the test development process, this technical report is intended to present the technical aspects of the tryout and pilot stages of the Michigan High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) in mathematics. Part 1 introduces the purpose, the legislation, and the committees involved in the test development. Development of the mathematics assessment framework and the framework structures is also briefly described. Part 2 provides an overview of the exercise development of the test. Part 3...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, High Schools, Mathematics Education, State...
In the early 1980s, American College Testing (ACT) saw a need for a system that would respond to the planning and assessment needs of students, parents, teachers, and administrators, and conducted an extensive review of what was being taught in American schools from grade 7 through college-sophomore level in order to identify the important educational goals that should be assessed. The study confirmed that there are skills and understandings which develop over time that are vital to students'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, Higher Education, Mathematics Activities,...
Artistic endeavors can be planned for and used wisely in ongoing science lessons and units of study. Criteria in rubric form could be developed to assess student art projects and processes, and art in science might become part of a student's portfolio. Art can be a method of learning science subject matter as well as a skills objective stressing creativity on the part of the learner. Four examples show how teachers and student teachers have used art in science instruction. Some students prefer...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Curriculum,...
Many different ingredients are inherent in a quality program of reading instruction. These include word attack skills training and improving comprehension. One important facet of comprehension pertains to elements in the literary selection read by students. These elements include characterization, the story's setting, the theme of the story, and the plot. Journal writing is very useful in the literature curriculum. Each student may write entries related to what has been learned about...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading...
The purpose of the survey was to obtain information to prepare a profile of state testing programs. One section of the report summarizes the data on the 42 testing programs that were operating in 33 states during the 1972-73 school year. This summary tabulates the findings of eight major areas covering all the questions asked during the interviews, including: purposes of programs; management aspects; population tested; instrumentation; data collection and processing; norms; dissemination; and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Programs, State Programs, State Surveys, Testing...
This study examined the prevalence amd progression toward generally accepted goals of comprehensive student assessment programs (CSAP) using data from the Higher Education Panel's stratified sample of 455 colleges and universities, of which 357 responded for a usable response rate of nearly 80%. The data indicated that about one-third of the nation's 2,600 nonspecialized degree-granting institutions had CSAPs in 1990. Among findings were the following: most institutions view their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Outcomes Assessment, College Students, Educational Assessment, Faculty,...
An eight-year program of evaluation of students and graduates of the teacher education school at Tennessee Technological University is described. This evaluation project culminated in an intensive longitudinal study of graduates since 1973. The purpose of the study was to provide information for faculty and administrators of teacher education programs in order to help them make decisions pertinent to curriculum evaluation and long-range development plans. Data for this study were collected by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, Longitudinal Studies,...
The phenomenological point of view is described, particularly the use of multiple realities as employed by sociologists to increase phenomenological understanding. Examples of applying the multiple reality approach to education are discussed. Part One is an introduction to the theme, "Phenomenology, Multiple Realities and Educational Evaluation." In this section, a concept (multiple realities) and a technique (analyzing data via different perspectives), used by phenomenologists--which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods, Models, Objectivity,...
The author briefly reviews literature dealing with the origins of the accountability movement, with models and programs for its implementation, and with the unresolved philosophical and methodological controversies surrounding accountability. (Author/IRT)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary...
The Michigan Educational Assessment Program presents an untimed, 70-question Social Studies Test (Form 35) for grade 4 students to assess social studies skills. This document contains the test booklet only. (PN)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Social...
A special assessment of writing skills was conducted during the 1979-80 school year for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) by the Education Commission of the States. The purposes of the study were to examine the writing abilities of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds enrolled in the DoDDS System, and to compare their writing abilities with students enrolled in U.S. schools, as reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The assessment focused on the students' ability...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Testing, Dependents Schools, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary...
A model for the evaluation of educational programs is presented, consisting of a seven-step procedure for determining objectives, developing the assessment data, analyzing the data, and presenting it in a meaningful format. The first step is to determine the objectives for the program and enumerate them in a meaningful, measurable fashion; second, to identify criteria bearing upon and influencing the program operation; third, to determine the extent and purpose of the evaluation; fourth, to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation...
This first interim report of the National Assessment of Vocational Education is intended to provide Congress with information that has emerged from some of the research conducted to date and to describe all the research projects underway. The report has two parts. The first part discusses trends in vocational education and issues concerning vocational education for disadvantaged persons. The second part contains profiles of the studies being conducted in each area of the study plan. Chapter 1...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Postsecondary Education, Research Design, Research...
This manual is designed as a technical resource to explain the accountability system used by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to evaluate the performance of public-school districts and campuses. The system integrates district and campus ratings; district and campus recognition for high performance and performance improvement; and campus, district, and state-level reports. The system is based upon student performance, recognition of diversity, system stability, statutory compliance, appropriate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary...
This kit contains everything needed to explain, criticize and plan, simulate, and evaluate a management by objectives (MBO) program. The kit has been field tested in state agencies, schools, businesses, and volunteer organizations. Rather than present only the strengths of MBO, this program defines MBO, presents its strong points in discussing the six imperatives of MBO (diagnose problems, specify objectives, analyze constraints, select viable alternative solutions, evaluate measurable...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives,...
The fourth revision of this report, prepared under the sponsorship of the Cooperative Accountability Project (CAP), contains seven state accountability statutes enacted in 1975, as well as two other statutes enacted in 1972 and 1973. The contents of the nine laws consist of directives and recommendations for comprehensive planning, evaluation of programs, assessment of student performance, state and local district educational goals and performance objectives, management information systems,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational...
States take a wide range of approaches to Student Learning Objectives (SLO) assessment selection. This "Ask the Team" brief helps states consider the trade-offs between approaches that offer more teacher choice and those that offer better comparability across SLOs. The brief identifies four common approaches to selecting SLO assessments: (1) The teacher or teacher team chooses the assessment(s) to use in SLOs; (2) The state or district provides assessment criteria or a bank of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Professional Autonomy, Academic Achievement, State Policy,...
This document describes ways to facilitate reflection and planning in challenging areas of school reform. It outlines a process, "image-making," that is based on research conducted with high-poverty schools that made substantial reforms over time. Image-making helps initiate thoughtful dialogue among adults in the school community by using metaphors and visual images to bring to the forefront and make visible those experiences, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes that often have no forum...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Long...
To understand the contributions of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) toward solving the problems of literacy and equity, this report addresses two questions: (1) How can NAEP provide useful information concerning educational equity and standards of and levels of literacy, particularly with regard to linguistic and ethnic minorities; and (2) What kinds of data can be collected and analyses performed to chart changes in literacy over time and provide clues about the types of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Educational...
This brochure is intended to help teachers and parents prepare students for the North Carolina Open-Ended Assessments (in reading and mathematics) given at grades 4 and 8. The brochure states that teachers in grades 2-5 can use the information to prepare students for the open-ended assessments. This particular brochure focuses primarily on the reading portion of the assessment, which includes opportunities for students to read several passages and respond to questions across content areas. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Student...
This handbook is developed as a part of Maryland's accountability program and is intended to assure the required uniformity in test administration procedures, security of test materials, and other matters with the aim of establishing an accountability assessment system which is fair to students, staff, schools, and school systems. Special attention is given to such concerns as preparation for testing, conditions for test identification, potential pitfalls, and responsibilities of various staff...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines,...
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