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Making Sense of Spring 2021 Assessment Results
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Dadey, Nathan; Keng, Leslie; Boyer, Michelle; Marion, Scott – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2021
State summative educational assessment is about to begin in earnest. Rightfully, many are raising questions about the quality, meaning, and appropriate use of the assessment results. This document was written to support state educational agencies (SEAs) and their assessment providers in devising effective and efficient analysis plans. This…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Test Use
Working with Error and Uncertainty to Increase Measurement Validity
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Barnett, Joshua H. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Over the previous two decades, the era of accountability has amplified efforts to measure educational effectiveness more than Edward Thorndike, the father of educational measurement, likely would have imagined. Expressly, the measurement structure for evaluating educational effectiveness continues to rely increasingly on one sole…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Measurement
Value-Added Measures for Schools in England: Looking inside the "Black Box" of Complex Metrics
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Kelly, Anthony; Downey, Christopher – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
Value-added measures can be used to allocate funding to schools, to identify those institutions in need of special attention and to underpin government guidance on targets. In England, there has been a tendency to include in these measures an ever-greater number of contextualising variables and to develop ever-more complex models that encourage…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Educational Finance
Keeping the Focus on the Child: Supporting and Reporting on Teaching and Learning with a Classroom-Based Performance Assessment System
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Falk, Beverly; Ort, Suzanne Wichterle; Moirs, Katie – Educational Assessment, 2007
This article describes the findings of studies conducted on a large-scale, classroom-based performance assessment of literacy for the early grades designed to provide information that is useful for reporting, as well as teaching. Technical studies found the assessment to be a promising instrument that is reliable and valid. Follow-up studies of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Research
Measurement Issues in Designing and Implementing Longitudinal Evaluation Studies
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Ding, Cody S. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
Evaluation is required for almost all educational activities or programs, particularly for federal- and state-funded programs. Such a requirement is quite understandable given that we need to know what has been done actually produces its intended purposes. However, it is almost impossible that bad data can provide justified conclusions, and there…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Program Evaluation, Measurement, Design
Good Education in an Age of Measurement: On the Need to Reconnect with the Question of Purpose in Education
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Biesta, Gert – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
In this paper I argue that there is a need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education, particularly in the light of a recent tendency to focus discussions about education almost exclusively on the measurement and comparison of educational outcomes. I first discuss why the question of purpose should always have a place in our…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Learning Processes, Role of Education