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Author : Marie Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Predicting Performance on High Stakes Testing written by Marie Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Committee on Appropriate Test Use
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309524954
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book High Stakes written by Committee on Appropriate Test Use and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-12-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is in favor of "high education standards" and "fair testing" of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean. High Stakes looks at how testing affects critical decisions for American students. As more and more tests are introduced into the country's schools, it becomes increasingly important to know how those tests are used--and misused--in assessing children's performance and achievements. High Stakes focuses on how testing is used in schools to make decisions about tracking and placement, promotion and retention, and awarding or withholding high school diplomas. This book sorts out the controversies that emerge when a test score can open or close gates on a student's educational pathway. The expert panel: Proposes how to judge the appropriateness of a test. Explores how to make tests reliable, valid, and fair. Puts forward strategies and practices to promote proper test use. Recommends how decisionmakers in education should--and should not--use test results. The book discusses common misuses of testing, their political and social context, what happens when test issues are taken to court, special student populations, social promotion, and more. High Stakes will be of interest to anyone concerned about the long-term implications for individual students of picking up that Number 2 pencil: policymakers, education administrators, test designers, teachers, and parents.
Author : Trisha Danielle Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Predicting Academic Performance on High-stakes Tests written by Trisha Danielle Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to develop the Brief Behavior, Academic, and Social Screener (B-BASS), an experimental measure for identifying students at risk for academic underachievement and for predicting performance on high-stakes tests, data were obtained from elementary teachers for 198 third- through fifth-grade rural elementary students in the Southeastern United States. Teachers provided ratings on items within the following global domains: cognitive ability, social/emotional traits, socioeconomic and family characteristics, and executive functions using a brief, practical, contextually appropriate format, one sensitive to local norms. Results reveal strong test-retest correlations (r indices > .95) and moderate to high inter-correlations among the items. Based on a multiple linear regression analysis, B-BASS domain scores account for 81.4% and 66.2% of the variance in North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests of English Language Arts/Reading and Mathematics, respectively. These values are impressive given the brief administration time of the B-BASS, approximately 1 minute per student. Based on a stepwise analysis, two items significantly predict English Language Arts/Reading; specifically, Reading Ability (p
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309170583
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Dropouts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-08-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role played by testing in the nation's public school system has been increasing steadily-and growing more complicated-for more than 20 years. The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity (CEETE) was formed to monitor the effects of education reform, particularly testing, on students at risk for academic failure because of poverty, lack of proficiency in English, disability, or membership in population subgroups that have been educationally disadvantaged. The committee recognizes the important potential benefits of standards-based reforms and of test results in revealing the impact of reform efforts on these students. The committee also recognizes the valuable role graduation tests can potentially play in making requirements concrete, in increasing the value of a diploma, and in motivating students and educators alike to work to higher standards. At the same time, educational testing is a complicated endeavor, that reality can fall far short of the model, and that testing cannot by itself provide the desired benefits. If testing is improperly used, it can have negative effects, such as encouraging school leaving, that can hit disadvantaged students hardest. The committee was concerned that the recent proliferation of high school exit examinations could have the unintended effect of increasing dropout rates among students whose rates are already far higher than the average, and has taken a close look at what is known about influences on dropout behavior and at the available data on dropouts and school completion.
Author : Kaitie Dyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Predicting Performance on Criterion-referenced Reading Tests with Benchmark Assessments written by Kaitie Dyson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current research study investigates the predictive value of two frequently-used benchmark reading assessments: Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) and the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). With an increasing emphasis on high-stakes testing to measure reading proficiency, benchmark assessments may assist in predicting end-of-year performance on high-stakes testing. Utah's high-stakes measurement of end-of-year reading achievement is the English Language Arts Criterion-Referenced Test (ELA-CRT). A Utah urban school district provided data for students who completed the DRA, DIBELS, and ELA-CRT in the 2005-2006 school year. The primary purpose of the study was to determine the accuracy to which the Fall administrations of the DRA and the DIBELS predicted performance on the ELA-CRT. Supplementary analysis also included cross-sectional data for the DIBELS. Results indicated that both Fall administrations of the DRA and the DIBELS were statistically significant in predicting performance on the ELA-CRT. Students who were high risk on the benchmark assessments were less likely to score proficiently on the ELA-CRT. Also, demographic factors did not appear to affect individual performance on the ELA-CRT. Important implications include the utility of data collected from benchmark assessments to address immediate interventions for students at risk of failing end-of-year, high-stakes testing.
Author : Daniel Koretz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640871X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Testing Charade written by Daniel Koretz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing better. 6 x 9.
Author : Roland Dante
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659580604
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Predicting End-Of-Course Test Using Teacher-Made Test written by Roland Dante and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicting how students will perform on standardized tests is relevant to all educators. This work examines the relationship of students' performance on teacher-edited benchmark assessments administered to their performance on the state's end-of-course test. Teachers have information on student achievement within specific topics based on tests, quizzes, homework, and other assignments. However, the best way to use this information in predicting high-stakes testing is unknown. Providing teachers with guidance on how to use this information would be extremely valuable. This research determines how well the data from periodically-administered tests may predict scores on the state's end-of-course test. The school implemented an intervention process that involves frequent assessment of the skills being taught. Students were taught and re-taught, tested and re-tested until they mastered the curriculum. It is my hope that the research reported here will help decision-makers on education with evidence-based guidance on how to use student data to drive instructions.
Author : Bruce Bradbury
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610448480
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Too Many Children Left Behind written by Bruce Bradbury and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The belief that with hard work and determination, all children have the opportunity to succeed in life is a cherished part of the American Dream. Yet, increased inequality in America has made that dream more difficult for many to obtain. In Too Many Children Left Behind, an international team of social scientists assesses how social mobility varies in the United States compared with Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook show that the academic achievement gap between disadvantaged American children and their more advantaged peers is far greater than in other wealthy countries, with serious consequences for their future life outcomes. With education the key to expanding opportunities for those born into low socioeconomic status families, Too Many Children Left Behind helps us better understand educational disparities and how to reduce them. Analyzing data on 8,000 school children in the United States, the authors demonstrate that disadvantages that begin early in life have long lasting effects on academic performance. The social inequalities that children experience before they start school contribute to a large gap in test scores between low- and high-SES students later in life. Many children from low-SES backgrounds lack critical resources, including books, high-quality child care, and other goods and services that foster the stimulating environment necessary for cognitive development. The authors find that not only is a child’s academic success deeply tied to his or her family background, but that this class-based achievement gap does not narrow as the child proceeds through school. The authors compare test score gaps from the United States with those from three other countries and find smaller achievement gaps and greater social mobility in all three, particularly in Canada. The wider availability of public resources for disadvantaged children in those countries facilitates the early child development that is fundamental for academic success. All three countries provide stronger social services than the United States, including universal health insurance, universal preschool, paid parental leave, and other supports. The authors conclude that the United States could narrow its achievement gap by adopting public policies that expand support for children in the form of tax credits, parenting programs, and pre-K. With economic inequalities limiting the futures of millions of children, Too Many Children Left Behind is a timely study that uses global evidence to show how the United States can do more to level the playing field.
Author : Maris Vinovskis
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428965289
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Road to Charlottesville written by Maris Vinovskis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milena Allison Keller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780549107699
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book General Outcome Measures and Performance on High Stakes Tests: A Further Examination of Long Term Predictive Validity in Pennsylvania written by Milena Allison Keller and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CBM has emerged in recent decades as a technically adequate, feasible, and instructionally useful academic progress monitoring tool. Recent research has investigated the relationship between CBM and high stakes tests within the same year as well as a year or more later, however, most studies have focused on reading and largely the data has been collected within the same academic year. In the last two years studies have examined the long term relationship between CBM and high stakes tests but again, these studies have focused on reading exclusively. This study examined the relationship between CBM in reading, math computation, and math concepts and applications and the high stakes test in Pennsylvania (PSSA) as well as the Terra Nova. Students in grades 1 through 4 from a medium sized mixed urban/suburban school district were included. Evaluation of CBM scores obtained at fall, winter, and spring as well as the rate of growth as they relate to the PSSA and Terra Nova one and two years later were examined. Results indicated that reading and math CBM benchmark data was significantly and moderately correlated with high stakes test performance both one and two years later. In the early grades, growth in reading was significantly and moderately related to high stakes test performance with the relationship decreasing with advancing grades. Math computation growth was also related to high stakes test performance. CBM provided adequate levels of accuracy for screening to high stakes test performance both one and two years later. This study reinforced the strength of CBM to serve as a measure for screening academic skills and as a valid predictor of student performance on high stakes tests several years later and adds to the literature by examining the relationship between math CBM and high stakes tests as well as examining growth rates. Outcomes of the study also strongly suggested the importance of early intervention and progress monitoring with students who are at-risk for developing academic problems in reading and math.
Author : Robert E. Ployhart
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439847053
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Staffing Organizations written by Robert E. Ployhart and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, the new third edition of a classic in the field, shows how organizations of all sizes can use effective staffing procedures as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Practically, the book shows how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including condu
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309172861
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Testing, Teaching, and Learning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization of Title I, the largest federal effort in precollegiate education, which provides aid to "level the field" for disadvantaged students. Testing, Teaching, and Learning is written to help states and school districts comply with the new law, offering guidance for designing and implementing assessment and accountability systems. This book examines standards-based education reform and reviews the research on student assessment, focusing on the needs of disadvantaged students covered by Title I. With examples of states and districts that have track records in new systems, the committee develops a practical "decision framework" for education officials. The book explores how best to design assessment and accountability systems that support high levels of student learning and to work toward continuous improvement. Testing, Teaching, and Learning will be an important tool for all involved in educating disadvantaged studentsâ€"state and local administrators and classroom teachers.
Author : Michael Russell
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607529831
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing written by Michael Russell and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a nation, we spend more than $1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional $1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with good intentions, increasingly educational leaders and policy makers are questioning these test based reform efforts. Some question whether these programs are doing more harm than good. Others call for the development of more and better tests. Given the vast amount of resources our nation pours into testing, is it time we pay closer attention to these testing programs? Is it time we hold the testing industry and policy makers accountable for the tests they make and use? Is it time we invest resources to develop new ways of testing our students? The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing explores these and other questions, as it helps parents, teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers better understand the complexities of educational policies that use tests as a lever for improving the quality of education. The book explores: >> how testing is used to enable teachers and schools to be more effective and improve student learning, >> why testing is so ingrained in the American psyche and why policy makers rely on testing policies to reform our educational system, >> what we can learn from a long history of test-based reform efforts that have occurred over centuries and across continents, >> what effects testing has on teaching and learning in our schools when it is used to solve political, social, or economic problems. Most importantly, the book describes several ways in which testing can be improved to provide more accurate and more useful measures of student learning. Many of these improvements capitalize on technology to provide teachers with more detailed, diagnostic information about student learning and measure skills that some leaders argue are essential for the 21st century work force. Exploring what is within reach is critical because current testing policies are hindering these improvements. Finally, given that testing is and will continue to be an integral part of our educational system, the book concludes that, like other sectors of our society, educational testing must be more closely monitored to ensure that high quality tests are used to measure student achievement and to minimize the negative effects that testing has on students, schools, and our society. Given the opportunity our nation has to rethink and redesign its testing policies, The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing presents a clear strategy to maximize the positive effects of educational testing.
Author : Gail M. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461715474
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Testing written by Gail M. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public. By focusing on these tests and spending large amounts of time on test preparation and driving teachers to teach low-level, rote memorization, schools are essentially wiping out non-tested subjects such as science, social studies, physical education, and the arts. Although testing is promoted as a strategy for improving education for all, research shows that testing has differential effects on students with special needs, minority students, students living in poverty, and those for whom English is a second language. The Unintended Consequences of High Stakes Testing unpacks the assumptions and philosophical foundations on which testing policies are based. The authors' arguments are grounded in extensive interviews and research. Through an examination of research, these authors show that high-stakes testing promotes students' dependence on extrinsic motivation at the cost of intrinsic motivation and the associated love of learning—which has tangible impacts on their education and lives. Features: -Examines how high stakes testing from the perspectives of teachers, students, and adminstrators. -Considers how testing impacts the curriculum including tested subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics as well as non-tested subjects such as science, social studies, physical education, and the arts. -Documents how teachers and administrators engage in test preparation and discusses ethical and unethical test preparation practices. -Reviews the evolution of testing through history and how it mpacts the curriculum. -Examines the differential effects of testing on students with special needs, minority students, students living in poverty, and those for whom English is a second language.
Author : Zachary A. Pardos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Real World Significance of Performance Prediction written by Zachary A. Pardos and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the educational data mining and user modeling communities have been aggressively introducing models for predicting student performance on external measures such as standardized tests as well as within-tutor performance. While these models have brought statistically reliable improvement to performance prediction, the real world significance of the differences in errors has been largely unexplored. In this paper we take a deeper look at what reported errors actually mean in the context of high stakes test score prediction as well as student mastery prediction. We report how differences in common error and accuracy metrics on prediction tasks translate to impact on students and depict how standard validation methods can lead to overestimated accuracies in these prediction tasks. Two years of student tutor use and corresponding student state test scores are used for the analysis of test prediction while a simulation study is conducted to investigate the correspondence between performance prediction error and latent knowledge prediction. (Contains 7 tables and 2 footnotes.) [For the complete proceedings, "Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (5th, Chania, Greece, June 19-21, 2012)," see ED537074.].
Author : Theo J.H.M Eggen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682130
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book High-Stakes Testing in Education written by Theo J.H.M Eggen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-stakes educational testing is a global phenomenon which is increasing in both scale and importance. Assessments are high-stakes when there are serious consequences for one or more stakeholders. Historically, tests have largely been used for selection or for providing a ‘licence to practise’, making them high-stakes for the test takers. Testing is now also used for the purposes of improving standards of teaching and learning and of holding schools accountable for their students’ results. These tests then become high-stakes for teachers and schools, especially when they have to meet externally imposed targets. More recent has been the emergence of international comparative testing, which has become high-stakes for governments and policy makers as their education systems are judged in relation to the performances of other countries. In this book we draw on research which examines each of these uses of high-stakes testing. The articles evaluate the impact of such assessments and explore the issues of value and fairness which they raise. To underline the international appeal of high-stakes testing the studies are drawn from Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, former Soviet republics and North America. Collectively they illustrate the power of high-stakes assessment in shaping, for better or for worse, policy making and schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice.
Author : Shu-Hsuan Kung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Predicting the Success on a State Standards Test for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Using Curriculum-based Oral Reading Measures written by Shu-Hsuan Kung and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
