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Categories of Scores Reported in State and Local Assessment Reports
The table below illustrates typical scores from national and statewide assessments. Studying a specific student's score ...
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Criterion-Referenced Tests
A criterion-referenced test (CRT) measures a student's performance with respect to a well-defined domain (Anastasi, ...
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Basic Considerations in Using Testing Accommodations
Several important considerations need to be taken into account in using accommodations in testing or assessment. The ...
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Research-Based Practices Testing Accommodations
To what extent do testing accommodations allow students with disabilities to be better able to demonstrate what they ...
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Measures of Intelligence
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, commissioned by the French government to devise a test that would differentiate ...
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Maker of SAT Aims New Test at 8th Graders
Officials at the New York City-based College Board last week rolled out their newest product: ReadiStep.No, it’s ...
Source: Education Week
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Middle School Assessment Chart
Looking for a great middle school? Here are the signs of a high-performing middle school offering high-quality classes.
Source: The National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform
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Standards for the English Language Arts
The vision guiding these standards is that all students must have the opportunities and resources to develop the ...
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Program Evaluation for the Practitioner
Data-driven decision making. This phrase is familiar to most schools and districts engaged in comprehensive school ...
Source: The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
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Standardized Test Questions: What's a Parent to do?
Recently, media attention caught wind of some utterly bizarre, and unanswerable, standardized test questions. So what ...
Source: Education.com
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Make it or Break it: High Stakes Testing Pros and Cons
High stakes testing has become the norm in schools since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. But don't ...
Source: Education.com
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Current Issues and Trends in Assessment in Early Childhood Education
The 1980s brought a new reform movement in education, accompanied by a new emphasis on testing. The effort to improve ...
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California High School Exit Examination Questions and Answers
What is the CAHSEE? State law, enacted in 1999, authorized the development of the California High School Exit ...
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What Can My Child do to Prepare Academically for College?
Many of the courses recommended for college-bound students (such as geometry and rigorous English courses) are also ...
Source: U.S. Department of Education
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Assessments: What They Are and What They Mean
In today's get-tough, standards-driven schools, tests are all the rage. Here's what you need to know about assessment.
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Why Tests Matter, and How They Can Help Your Child
Learning how to take tests is a skill in itself. Find out how students can benefit from test-taking skills.
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Purposes of Grades
Grades provide information. A grade assigned to a student serves multiple purposes depending on who views it. As viewed...
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Using Testing Accommodations For Diverse Learners
This article introduces the use of testing accommodations for students with disabilities and ELLs. We cover these two...
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Categories of Skills and Abilities In Science Class
This outline identifies the types of skills that science students ought to be able to do better after having taken...
