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Rivera-McCutchen, Rosa L. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Part of a special issue on the high-stakes testing opt-out movement, this article focuses its analysis on the movement within New York State, and examines white privilege and power within one specific organization, the NYS Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE). Specifically, I examine how the public-facing work of NYSAPE addressed (or…
Descriptors: Whites, Power Structure, Standardized Tests, Educational Assessment
Kelly, Kate Tremain; Richardson, Mary; Isaacs, Talia – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
Comparative judgment is gaining popularity as an assessment tool, including for high-stakes testing purposes, despite relatively little research on the use of the technique. Advocates claim two main rationales for its use: that comparative judgment is valid because humans are better at comparative than absolute judgment, and because it distils the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Evaluative Thinking, High Stakes Tests
Ydesen, Christian – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2014
This article argues that high-stakes educational testing, along with the attendant questions of power, education access, education management and social selection, cannot be considered in isolation from society at large. Thus, high-stakes testing practices bear numerous implications for democratic conditions in society. For decades, advocates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Democracy, Correlation
Polesel, John; Rice, Suzanne; Dulfer, Nicole – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
Debates continue about how high-stakes testing regimes influence schools at all levels: their impact on teaching practices, distribution of resources and curriculum provision, and whether they achieve the intended increases in student achievement in targeted areas. In 2008, the Australian government Introduced a national testing scheme, the"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Educational Practices, Curriculum Design
Klenowski, Val; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
High stakes testing in Australia was introduced in 2008 by way of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Currently, every year all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are assessed on the same days using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy. In 2010 the…
Descriptors: Evidence, National Curriculum, Student Evaluation, High Stakes Tests
Starr, Joshua P.; Spellings, Margaret – Education Next, 2014
More than 40 states plan to assess student performance with new tests tied to the Common Core State Standards. In summer 2013, results from Common Core-aligned tests in New York showed a steep decline in outcomes. Common Core advocates hailed the scores as an honest accounting of school and student performance, while others worried that they…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, State Standards, Academic Standards, Scores
Thompson, Gail L.; Allen, Tawannah G. – Journal of Negro Education, 2012
In order to ensure that American students are competitive with students in other countries, since the 1980s, U.S. policymakers have been trying to improve the K-12 public school system. Recent reform efforts have led to the current high-stakes testing movement, which measures student achievement and school effectiveness mainly by standardized test…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, School Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, African American Students
Militello, Matthew; Militello, Luke – Educational Forum, 2013
Recent educational accountability efforts have married student assessments with reform mandates and sanctions. As a result, students--beginning in early elementary grades--are feeling the pressures of this new era of high-stakes accountability. This article chronicles a story of the consequences of high-stakes testing on a father and his son.…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Bovaird, James A., Ed.; Geisinger, Kurt F., Ed.; Buckendahl, Chad W., Ed. – APA Books, 2011
Educational assessment and, more broadly, educational research in the United States have entered into an era characterized by a dramatic increase in the prevalence and importance of test score use in accountability systems. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues about testing science and practice that impact the nation's public…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Test Use, Student Placement, Educational Research
Cantley, Ian – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
The outcomes of educational assessments undoubtedly have real implications for students, teachers, schools and education in the widest sense. Assessment results are, for example, used to award qualifications that determine future educational or vocational pathways of students. The results obtained by students in assessments are also used to gauge…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Foundations of Education
Walker, Loretta Niebur – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This is the first of two articles reporting the results of a study by the author regarding the status of elementary music education in the state of Utah. This article focuses on how elementary music programs are structured (regular instruction with a music specialist, truncated programs, delegated programs, no formal music instruction, no music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary Education, Educational Methods, Performance Factors
Horan, Shayne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to use an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach to discover generative instructional and assessment practices of teachers in the language arts classroom at a 5th and 6th grade low socioeconomic public school campus in Texas that earned five distinctions or three consecutive years. The study sought to design a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Student Empowerment, Teacher Empowerment, Qualitative Research
Boudreaux, Wilbert – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Educational stakeholders are aware that school administration has become an incredibly intricate dynamic that is too complex for principals to handle alone. Test-driven accountability has made the already daunting task of school administration even more challenging. Distributed leadership presents an opportunity to explore increased leadership…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Stakeholders, Educational Assessment
Kuh, Lisa; Nelson, Christy – New Educator, 2014
How can teachers engage in new ways of teaching that demonstrate student achievement beyond required standardized testing? This article by teachers for teachers shares one team's experience engaging in documentation with children via ongoing projects. Teachers shifted how they viewed assessment, used assessment tools and negotiated the…
Descriptors: Documentation, Educational Assessment, Inquiry, Alternative Assessment
Supovitz, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Change, 2009
This article examines major trends in testing and accountability reform in the United States over the past decade. The review covers the apex and decline of the national experimentation with a range of alternative assessments and the rise of test-based accountability as a central policy initiative. These trends signify that testing has become a…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Testing, Educational Change