State Assessment Systems: Exploring Best Practices and Innovations: Summary of Two Workshops

by Committee on Best Practices for State Assessment Systems, National Research Council, Board on Testing and Assessment, et al.

Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years, and have used the results for many purposes. They have tried minimum competency testing; portfolios; multiple-choice items, brief and extended constructed-response items; and more. They have contended with concerns about student privacy, test content, and equity--and they have responded to calls for tests to answer many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309161762
• ISBN13: 9780309161763
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 156 Pages