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New Assessments, Better Instruction? [electronic resource] : Designing Assessment Systems to Promote Instructional Improvement
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faxon-Mills, Susannah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- School improvement programs--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (115 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2013.
- Summary:
- Reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-8188-8
- OCLC:
- 862047576
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