District Adoption and Implementation of Interim and Benchmark Assessments. CRESST Report 806

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العنوان: District Adoption and Implementation of Interim and Benchmark Assessments. CRESST Report 806
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Davidson, Kristen L., Frohbieter, Greta, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
المصدر: National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). 2011.
الإتاحة: National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). 300 Charles E Young Drive N, GSE&IS Building 3rd Floor, Mailbox 951522, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1522. Tel: 310-206-1532; Fax: 310-825-3883; Web site: http://www.cresst.orgTest
تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: N
Page Count: 54
تاريخ النشر: 2011
Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
نوع الوثيقة: Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
الواصفات: Educational Assessment, Data, Decision Making, School Districts, Administrators, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Expectation, Objectives, Test Selection, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Comparative Analysis
مصطلحات جغرافية: California, Colorado
مستخلص: As an outgrowth of the accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, districts are increasingly implementing "interim" or "benchmark" assessments. This report investigates various stakeholders' original purposes in adopting interim or benchmark assessments, ensuing implementation efforts, and actual assessment uses. We present findings from interviews with 24 district administrators and 14 principals in seven districts across two states and, where applicable, compare interview data from 30 teachers who participated in a larger study of classroom use of these assessments (Shepard, Davidson, & Bowman, 2011). District administrators often cited intentions that the assessments would be used to inform instruction. However, the realization of instructional purposes was limited by the type of information provided by predominantly multiple choice items, a lack of substantive professional development, and minimal coherence with respect to shared understandings of assessment purposes and uses across district, school, and classroom levels. Drawing from our results and other research, we provide recommendations for a successful interim or benchmark assessment system. Appended are: (1) Administrator Interview Protocol; (2) A Summary of Perie, Marion, and Gong's (2009) Framework; and (3) Substantive Codes. (Contains 5 tables and 16 footnotes.)
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 71
Entry Date: 2011
رقم الانضمام: ED525098
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC