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The Human Face of the High-Stakes Testing Story.
Nathan, Linda – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Describes the adverse impact of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System high-stakes testing on the unique educational environment of the Boston Arts Academy. (PKP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Is Your School Ready for Alternative Assessment?
Worthen, Blaine R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Lists 10 conditions essential to a school's readiness to explore alternative assessment methods, including desire for better assessment information, insufficiency of current assessment method, staff and parent openness to innovation, conceptual clarity, assessment "literacy," clarity about desired student outcomes, unsuitability of present…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Performance Based Assessment
Assessing Alternative Assessment.
Maeroff, Gene I. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
For all its attractiveness, alternative assessment is fraught with complications and difficulties, as Rhode Island's experience shows. Although alternative assessment can be systematic, there are no ways to rate large numbers of performance-based tasks, portfolios, interviews, exhibits, or essays. Some standardization is necessary, and assessment…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Norm Referenced Tests
Critical Issues That Will Determine the Future of Alternative Assessment.
Worthen, Blaine R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Describes how alternative assessment differs from more traditional forms and outlines the forces causing the recent fascination with alternative assessment (demands for accountability, negative consequences of high-stakes testing, and increasing criticisms of standardized tests). Identifies some major issues involving alternative assessment,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Performance Assessments for Beginning Teachers: Options and Lessons.
Long, Claudia; Stansbury, Kendyll – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
A 3-year pilot study of alternative assessments for over 500 beginning teachers revealed numerous possibilities, including high-inference classroom observations, semistructured interviews, structured simulation tasks, performance-based assessment center exercises, portfolios, videotaped teaching episodes, and revamped multiple-choice examinations.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Quantum Theory, the Uncertainty Principle, and the Alchemy of Standardized Testing.
Wassermann, Selma – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Argues that reliance on the outcome of quantitative standardized tests to assess student performance is misplaced quest for certainty in an uncertain world. Reviews and lauds Canadian teacher-devised qualitative diagnostic tool, "Profiles of Student Behaviors," composed of 20 behavioral patterns in student knowledge, attitude, and skill.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Research Skills