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Download full textBrian McManus; Jessica Howell; Michael Hurwitz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The impact of test-optional college admissions policies depends on whether applicants act strategically in disclosing test scores. We analyze individual applicants' standardized test scores and disclosure behavior to 50 major US colleges for entry in fall 2021, when COVID-19 prompted widespread adoption of test-optional policies. Applicants…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Test Results, Scores, College Admission
Direct linkRichardson, Mary – UCL Press, 2022
Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is easy to feel that schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments, and that assessment is only about exam results. The idea that test grades can accurately describe the aims and outcomes of education is unfair and reductive. Yet it is a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Trust (Psychology), Tests, Grades (Scholastic)
Mattey, Sarah – Research Matters, 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closing of schools across the United Kingdom, and to the cancellation of exams and assessments in England. A large number of learners take Vocational and Technical Qualifications (VTQs) that are offered in a diverse range of subject groups and they can be used to enter the next stage of education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Qualifications, COVID-19
Lazarin, Melissa – Migration Policy Institute, 2022
From uneven digital access and growing academic gaps to reports of students missing or disengaged since March 2020, it is evident that English Learners (ELs) have endured some of the pandemic's gravest impacts on students across the United States. But because the pandemic has affected state assessment systems as well as instruction, it is…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics
Peer reviewedSjøberg, Svein; Jenkins, Edgar – Studies in Science Education, 2022
PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is one of two large scale international comparative projects of student assessment that now exert considerable influence upon school science education policy, the other being TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). This paper focuses on PISA, now the most influential…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Nebraska Department of Education, 2021
This technical report documents the processes and procedures implemented to support the Spring 2021 Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) Phase I Pilot in English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science assessments by NWEA® under the supervision of the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE). The technical report shows how the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Standard Setting, English, Language Arts
