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Download full textBurton, Elizabeth; Linn, Robert L. – 1993
Currently in the United States there is considerable interest in developing a system of examinations that is substantially different from the large-scale testing programs presently in use in this country. These new exams would involve a different form of assessment than current tests and would also enable greater local control over the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1993
The experience of the Canadian provinces with large-scale testing programs is reviewed to suggest answers to questions currently discussed in the United States regarding the proposed national system of achievement testing. In the Canadian provinces, tests are linked to provincial curricula. Standards and assessments are not set by experts with no…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
