This PowerPoint presentation, part of a web seminar sponsored by the National Center on Educational Outcomes on Best Practices in Science Teaching and Testing for Students with Severe Cognitive Disabilities, […]
Topics: Validation & Technical Quality
This presentation provides an overview of different types of school performance, including student growth, and introduces key issues in defining a student growth model that could be used in holding […]
How can states build alignment between what they value for truly improving teaching and learning and what they identify for inclusion in large-scale assessment? Three New England states have worked […]
Improving the Validity of States’ Standards-Based Assessment and Accountability Systems October 9th – 10th Agenda Session I Building Legally Defensible Accountability Systems A Federal Law/Policy Framework: Building “Single Statewide Accountability […]
This presentation at the Council of Chief State School Officers’ 2002 large-scale assessment conference discusses issues involved in using alignment studies between standards and assessments, and assessment and accountability decisions, […]
Presentation at the Seminar on Using Multiple Measures and Indicators to Judge Schools’ Adequate Yearly Progress under Title I, Sponsored by Council of Chief State School Officers and the U.S. […]
Validity study that compares the relationships between performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and other tests scores with a commercial, standardized test in one district (Collaborating District A, […]
Summary of findings from two studies of MCAS validity by Gong, Thacker and Hoffman; summarizes MCAS relationships with scores on other standardized tests, gender, race-ethnicity, transience, and course-taking patterns.