Assessment in educational reform : both means and ends / [compiled and edited by] Robert W. Lissitz, William D. Schafer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lissitz, Robert W.

Schafer, William D.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational tests and measurements--United States--Congresses.

Educational tests and measurements.

United States.

Educational change--United States--Congresses.

Educational change.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2002]

Contents:

1 What Will Teachers Know about Assessment, and How Will That Improve Instruction? / Susan M. Brookhart 2

2 Where Is Our Assessment Future and How Can We Get There from Here? / Richard J. Stiggins 18

3 What Role Will Assessment Play in School in the Future? / Peter W. Airasian, Lisa M. Abrams 50

4 How Will Teacher Education Use Assessments? An Assessment Scenario from the Future / Mary E. Diez 66

5 How Can Assessment Contribute to an Educational Utopia? / William D. Schafer 80

6 How Will Assessments Accommodate Students with Disabilities? / Gerald Tindal 100

7 How Will English Language Learners Be Accommodated in State Asessments? / Charles W. Stansfield, Charlene Rivera 124

8 How Will Assessment Data Be Used to Document the Impact of Educational Reform? / Lauress L. Wise, R. Gene Hoffman 146

9 How Will We Gather the Data We Need to Inform Policy Makers? / Edward D. Roeber 162

10 How Can We Make NAEP and State Test Score Reporting Scales and Reports More Understandable? / Ronald K. Hambleton 192

11 How Will We Get Valid Among-State and International Comparisons and What Will They Tell Us? / Albert E. Beaton 206.

Notes:

Festschrift in honor of William D. Schafer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0205332692

OCLC:

46640746