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Beachum, Laura Maree – ProQuest LLC, 2016
School districts across North Carolina are implementing co-teaching practices as a part of inclusive education. This study analyzed the effectiveness of co-teaching as an instructional delivery method and the components needed for success. This study also examined the defined roles needed between the general education teacher and the special…
Descriptors: School Districts, Team Teaching, Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship
Jensen, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study sought to determine if there is a relationship between students' scores on the eighth-grade Indiana State Test of Education Progress Plus (ISTEP+) exam and success on Indiana's Algebra End-of-Course Assessment (ECA). Additionally, it sought to determine if algebra success could be significantly predicted by the achievement in one or…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Prior Learning, Mathematics Achievement, Algebra
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Polikoff, Morgan S. – Educational Assessment, 2016
As state tests of student achievement are used for an increasingly wide array of high- and low-stakes purposes, evaluating their instructional sensitivity is essential. This article uses data from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Project to examine the instructional sensitivity of 4 states' mathematics and English…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, English
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2016
Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is committed to providing partners with useful tools to help make inferences from the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) interim assessment scores. Recently, NWEA completed a concordance study to connect the scales of the North Carolina End-of-Grade (EOG) English language arts (ELA) and math with those…
Descriptors: Scores, Inferences, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 2001
This document contains preliminary state-level results for the 2000-2001 North Carolina state testing program. No conclusions about achievement are drawn in this report, although percentages achieving at given Achievement Levels are given for the end-of-grade tests. The Grade 3 Pretest is a multiple-choice reading and mathematics test administered…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Biology, Charter Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 2000
This document contains results for 1998-1999 for several North Carolina state testing programs. The Grade 3 Pretest is a multiple-choice reading and mathematics test administered to students in the first 3 weeks of third grade. This pretest was administered to more than 101,000 students in the beginning of the 1998-1999 school year. Results show…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Biology, Charter Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1999
Beginning in the 1992-93 school year, the North Carolina State Board of Education authorized the administration of North Carolina-developed end-of-grade tests aligned with the state's "Standard Course of Study." These curriculum-based tests were administered to over 553,000 students in grades 3 through 8 at the end of the 1997-98 school…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Biology, Charter Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 2001
This document contains results for 1999-2000 for North Carolina state testing programs. The Grade 3 pretest is a multiple-choice reading and mathematics test administered to students in the first 3 weeks of grade 3. This pretest was administered to more than 102,000 students in the 1999-2000 school year. Results showed that 69.8% of students…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Biology, Charter Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1992
To fulfill the mandates of the State Legislature, a battery of national and statewide standardized norm-referenced tests has been administered in the spring of each year to North Carolina's students in grades 3, 6, and 8 to measure skills in reading, language, mathematics, science, and social studies. This report presents summary results of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3