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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; McCoy, Jan D.; Twyman, Todd; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
Discussion of problems in documenting student performance and progress focuses on middle-secondary subject matter, the state standards that are fundamental to most large-scale assessment systems, and curriculum text structures that limit the type of learning that can be documented. It suggests critical thinking measures as an alternative procedure…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Based Assessment, Educational Assessment
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Helwig, Robert; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2002
Four alternate versions of a 15-item general outcome measure (GOM) of mathematics conceptual understanding and applications were developed and administered to 117 eighth-graders. Results were correlated with scores on state multiple-choice mathematics achievement tests. Correlations ranged from .81 to .87 with no significant differences, offering…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Grade 8, Learning Disabilities
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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; McCoy, Jan D.; Twyman, Todd; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
Curriculum-based measurement is a system for monitoring students' progress and formatively evaluating instruction backed by 25 years of validation research. Most of this research has been conducted in elementary schools. In middle and high school classrooms, where there is an emphasis on mastering content knowledge, elementary-level measurements…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Program Validation