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Download full textScott F. Marion, Editor; James W. Pellegrino, Editor; Amy I. Berman, Editor – National Academy of Education, 2024
High-quality assessments are crucial to many aspects of the educational process. They can help policymakers monitor long-term educational trends, assist state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) in allocating resources and professional development opportunities, provide insights to teachers about how well students…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Test Validity
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Direct linkRebecchi Kevin; Lubart Todd; Hagège Hélène – Discover Education, 2024
Education today is evolving to foster essential psychosocial skills like creativity, critical thinking, and responsibility, equipping students for 21st-century challenges. However, it is crucial to examine the motivations driving these changes and their alignment with broader societal goals beyond merely economic interests. This article explores…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creativity, Ethics, Social Responsibility
Luo, Jiahui; Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Zhao, Yue – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Intensive research attention has focused on developing students' evaluative judgement within the higher education curriculum, but little has addressed how it can be measured. The contextual nature of evaluative judgement makes it difficult to generate an encompassing instrument, highlighting the need for situated measurement tools. Against this…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Evaluative Thinking, Intercultural Communication
McClellan, Catherine; Snyder, Rebecca; Woods-Murphy, Maryann; Basset, Katherine – National Network of State Teachers of the Year, 2018
Great teachers recognize great assessments. As policy and education leaders work to make sure state tests are measuring the problem-solving, writing, and critical-thinking skills students need for success, they should convene and rely on teachers to review test quality and help answer the question: Do the questions on our state test reflect…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Quality, Standardized Tests, Test Items
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Roughly 270,000 school-aged youth were in foster care at the end of fiscal year 2017. Youth in foster care may change schools frequently, which can negatively affect their academic achievement. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), enacted in 2015, reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and included provisions to improve…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Student Mobility, At Risk Students, Student Placement
Seastrom, Marilyn – Institute of Education Sciences, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 (Public Law 114-95) requires each state to create a plan for its statewide accountability system. In particular, ESSA calls for state plans that include strategies for reporting education outcomes by grade for all students and for economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Best Practices, Information Security, Sample Size
Woods, Julie – Education Commission of the States, 2017
Assessments come in many forms in part because they serve many purposes, and those purposes often vary by the stakeholders they support. Students, parents, teachers, and school, district and state leaders may all be end users of the information provided by various assessments. This brief supports state leaders' understanding of assessments by…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Guides
