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Author : Patricia Broadfoot
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781853591709
This book is the work of the British Educational Research Association Assessment Policy Task Group who produced two of the four papers featured. They all address the reasons behind current UK assessment policy and how it might be improved.
Author : Committee on Appropriate Test Use
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1998-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309524954
Everyone is in favor of "high education standards" and "fair testing" of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean. High Stakes looks at how testing affects critical decisions for American students. As more and more tests are introduced into the country's schools, it becomes increasingly important to know how those tests are used--and misused--in assessing children's performance and achievements. High Stakes focuses on how testing is used in schools to make decisions about tracking and placement, promotion and retention, and awarding or withholding high school diplomas. This book sorts out the controversies that emerge when a test score can open or close gates on a student's educational pathway. The expert panel: Proposes how to judge the appropriateness of a test. Explores how to make tests reliable, valid, and fair. Puts forward strategies and practices to promote proper test use. Recommends how decisionmakers in education should--and should not--use test results. The book discusses common misuses of testing, their political and social context, what happens when test issues are taken to court, special student populations, social promotion, and more. High Stakes will be of interest to anyone concerned about the long-term implications for individual students of picking up that Number 2 pencil: policymakers, education administrators, test designers, teachers, and parents.
Author : Joel I. Klein
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 087609521X
The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2001-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309293227
Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.
Author : Wynne Harlen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Inquiry-based learning
ISBN : 9781291332148
Author : National Assessment Governing Board
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a survey mandated by the U.S. Congress to collect and report information about student achievement in various academic subjects, such as mathematics, science, reading, writing, history, geography, and civics. The National Assessment Governing Board sets policy and the overall dimensions for the assessment program. The Board has scheduled a National Assessment in civics for 2010 to gauge knowledge and skills about civics and government of the nation's 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students. This civics assessment will use the same Framework as in 1998 to enable NAEP to report on trends in student achievement from 1998 to 2010. This document contains four chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Civic Education and the Issues Framing the Assessment; (2) The Civics Assessment: Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions; and (4) Desired Attributes of the Assessment. Appendix A includes: (1) NAEP Civics Assessment Planning Process; and (2) A Note About Terminology. Appendix B includes: (1) Organizing Questions and Content Summary; (2) Intellectual Skills; (3) Participatory Skills; and (4) Civic Dispositions. Appendix C includes: (1) Steering Committee Members; (2) Planning Committee Members; and (3) Management Team. (Contains 3 tables.) [This document was developed under contract number ZA95001001 by the Council of Chief State School Officers with the Center for Civic Education and the American Institutes for Research for the National Assessment Governing Board.].
Author : Stephen Ward
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1847874665
This work looks at state involvement in education and education policy. It explains the role of education policy in the context of the general direction of government policy, politics and the economy.
Author : Robert Glaser
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Educational evaluation
ISBN :
This is the final report of the National Academy of Education's Panel on the Evaluation of the National Assessment of Education (NAEP) Progress Trial State Assessment. In this report, the Panel considers philosophical, technical, and policy issues concerning the NAEP in the immediate future and in the long term. The high technical quality of the NAEP assessment and its independence from unwarranted influences and political pressures have enabled the NAEP to monitor trends in educational achievement reliably since its inception in 1969. In recent years, the NAEP has expanded the number of students it assesses and has undergone substantial changes in content, design, and administration. Taken together, these changes have produced complexities that threaten the entire program. This report suggests ways in which the NAEP should broaden its conceptualization, assessment, and reporting. It asserts that educational achievement must be redefined in terms of what students need to know and be able to do for the 21st century and that education conditions must be created to support this vision of achievement. The fundamental purposes of the NAEP should be to inform the public and policy makers about student achievement trends in the nation and the states and to stimulate democratic debate about how to improve education. It is important that NAEP standards be set in defensible ways. Details are provided for a program of innovation and research that will require substantial planning before the reauthorization of the NAEP in 1998. These chapters are included: (1) "The Central Purpose of the National Assessment of Educational Progress"; (2) "What Should NAEP Measure?"; (3) "Measuring Achievement"; (4) "Informing the Nation"; (5) "Connecting to the Larger Network of Education Information"; and (6) "Planning for the Long Term." (Contains 7 figures and 43 references.) (SLD)
Author : Richard Daugherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135720940
The assessment of the National Curriculum has evolved from the first blueprint of the TGAT Report through a series of policy decisions and early experience of implementation. The pace of change, the complexity of the proposed assessment system and the political rhetoric associated with it have served to confuse and so obscure the trends in policy and practice. This book offers an account of that system and explains why it is now emerging in a substantially different form from that envisaged by its originators.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1998-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309062799
The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union Address. Proponents of Voluntary National Tests argue that there is no widely understood, challenging benchmark of individual student performance in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics, thus the need for a new test. Opponents argue that a statistical linkage among tests already used by states and districts might provide the sort of comparability called for by the president's proposal. Public Law 105-78 requested that the National Research Council study whether an equivalency scale could be developed that would allow test scores from existing commercial tests and state assessments to be compared with each other and with the National Assessment of Education Progress. In this book, the committee reviewed research literature on the statistical and technical aspects of creating valid links between tests and how the content, use, and purposes of education testing in the United States influences the quality and meaning of those links. The book summarizes relevant prior linkage studies and presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. It also looks at the unique characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Uncommon Measures provides an answer to the question posed by Congress in Public Law 105-78, suggests criteria for evaluating the quality of linkages, and calls for further research to determine the level of precision needed to make inferences about linked tests. In arriving at its conclusions, the committee acknowledged that ultimately policymakers and educators must take responsibility for determining the degree of imprecision they are willing to tolerate in testing and linking. This book provides science-based information with which to make those decisions.