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Wise, Steven L.; Kingsbury, G. Gage; Webb, Norman L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2015
The alignment between a test and the content domain it measures represents key evidence for the validation of test score inferences. Although procedures have been developed for evaluating the content alignment of linear tests, these procedures are not readily applicable to computerized adaptive tests (CATs), which require large item pools and do…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Alignment (Education), Test Content
Webb, Norman L. – 1982
A summative evaluation of the instructional television series "Reading for a Reason" was conducted during the spring of 1982 as part of the premier showing of the series over the Wisconsin Educational Television Network. The series consisted of eight programs designed to teach skills for content area reading to seventh and eighth grade…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Television, Grade 7, Grade 8
Webb, Norman L. – 1997
This monograph discusses criteria for judging the alignment between expectations of student achievement and assessment. Alignment is central to current efforts of systemic and standards-based education reforms in mathematics and science. More than four-fifths of the states have content frameworks in place in mathematics and science, and a large…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criteria, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1989
This report documents and evaluates the activities of the Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project during the 1987-88 school year. UMC seeks to improve mathematics education in inner-city schools and identify new models for the professional development of mathematics teachers by supporting collaboration among mathematics teachers and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1991
This report documents and evaluates the activities of the Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project during the 1989-90 school year. UMC seeks to improve mathematics education in inner-city schools and identify new models for the professional development of mathematics teachers by supporting collaboration among mathematics teachers and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1990
This report documents and evaluates the activities of the Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project during the 1988-89 school year. UMC seeks to improve mathematics education in inner-city schools and identify new models for the professional development of mathematics teachers by supporting collaboration among mathematics teachers and…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Webb, Norman L., Ed.; Romberg, Thomas A., Ed. – 1994
The Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) Project was a 5-year effort to reform mathematics instruction in urban schools by empowering mathematics teachers. Targeting over 3,000 high school mathematics teachers in collaboratives in 11 urban areas, including San Francisco (California), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and New Orleans (Louisiana), the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Roach, Andrew T.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Webb, Norman L. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2003
The primary purpose of the investigation was to determine the extent to which (a) the Wisconsin Alternate Assessment (WAA) adequately measures the skills and concepts that make up the curriculum and instruction of students with significant disabilities; and (b) the WAA adequately measures the concepts and skill areas represented in Wisconsin's…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Rating Scales, Individualized Education Programs, Content Validity
Webb, Norman L.; Kane, Janet; Yang, Jung-Ho; Kaufman, Darwin; Cohen, Allen; Kang, Taehoon; Park, Chanho; Wilson, Linda – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2003
This document represents the second of two volumes presented in "Study of the Impact of the Statewide Systemic Initiatives Program" (Norman L. Webb and Iris R. Weiss). In an effort to evaluate the impact of the Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSIs) on student achievement and the lessons that could be learned from the National Science Foundation's…
Descriptors: State Programs, Educational Change, Mathematics Education, Science Education