New assessments, better instruction? : designing assessment systems to promote instructional improvement /

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This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faxon-Mills, Susannah
Otros Autores: Hamilton, Laura S., Rudnick, Mollie, Stecher, Brian M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2013.
Temas:
Educational evaluation > United States.
Educational tests and measurements > United States.
School improvement programs > United States.
Évaluation en éducation > États-Unis.
Tests et mesures en éducation > États-Unis.
Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational evaluation.
Educational tests and measurements.
School improvement programs.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figure; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Methods; Framework; Curriculum Standards; Assessment; Accountability; District/School Policy; Educator Background, Beliefs, and Knowledge; School Characteristics; Instructional Practices; Limitations; 3. How Educators Respond to Assessment; Changes in Curriculum Content and Emphasis; Changes in the Sequence of Topics; Reallocation of Content Across and Within Subjects; Focus on Basic Skills and Facts; Focus on Higher Skills and Cognitive Levels; Changes in Instructional Activities.
  • Focus on Test-Taking StrategiesChanges in Instructional Strategies; Changes in Classroom Assessment Practices; Changes in Teachers' Interactions with Students; Using Test Results to Individualize Instruction; Focus on "Bubble Kids"; 4. Conditions That Influence Educators' Responses to Assessment; Attributes of the Tests and Testing Programs; Purpose and Use of Test; Quality of the Assessment; Testing Format; Accountability Context; Nature of Consequences; Accountability Metrics and Decision Rules; Educator Background, Beliefs, and Knowledge; Domain Knowledge; Teacher Beliefs.
  • Familiarity with AssessmentEndorsement of Assessment; School and Student Characteristics; School Characteristics; Aggregate Student Performance; Policy and Practice; Use of Time; Professional Development; Collaboration; Curriculum; 5. Conclusions; Conditions Relating to the Tests and the Testing Programs; Conditions Relating to Educator Capacity and Beliefs; Conditions Relating to the Accountability Context; Conditions Relating to District/School Policy; Summary; References.

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