ERIC Number: ED484135
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 37
Abstractor: Author
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LAS Guide: Principles and Criteria for the Adoption of Local Assessment Systems.
Maine Department of Education
Maine's approach to assessing state standards, the Learning Results, has been to use a combination of state and local measures in building a "comprehensive assessment system." The state test, the Maine Educational Assessment (MEA), was revised in 1999 to align more closely with content standards and performance indicators established in the Learning Results. At the same time, schools across Maine have been aligning their local curricula, instruction, and assessments (classroom, school, and district levels) with the standards. This document is intended to provide sufficient guidance on how to construct a local assessment system to serve as a plan for local action. The necessary requirements are stated in this Guide as Rules. Options for local decision-making are suggested through Considerations and Examples of local assessment system plans that illustrate, wherever possible, more than one approach to meeting the criteria. Appended are: (1) DOE Content Clusters; and (2) DOE Contact List.
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Test Construction, Achievement Tests, Evaluation Methods, Culture Fair Tests
Maine Department of Education, 23 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0023. Tel: 207-624-6600.
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Maine State Dept. of Education, Augusta.
Identifiers - Location: Maine
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