Meeting the Challenges to Measurement in an Era of Accountability

• Main Author: Braun, Henry I.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2016; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: NCME APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Academic achievement > United States > Evaluation; accountability; achievement; assessment; Assessment & Testing; Assessment Design; Assessment, Testing & Measurement; Construct Irrelevant Variance; Constructed Response Items; ECD; Education; Education > Standards > United States; Education > United States > Evaluation; Education Policy; Education: examinations and assessment; Educational Psychology; Educational strategies and policy; Educational systems and structures; Educational tests and measurements; Educational tests and measurements > United States; evaluation; evidence-centered design; Henry Braun; IRT Model; measurement; Meeting the Challenges to Measurement in an Era of Accountability; NGSS Lead States; non-tested subjects and grades; NRC Framework; Performance Assessments; portfolio; Potential Work Products; principled assessment design; Professional Development; Psychological methodology; Psychological testing and measurement; Psychology; Schools; Schools > United States > Evalution; Selected Response Items; Society and Social Sciences; Student Growth Percentile; Teacher effectiveness; Teacher effectiveness > United States > Evaluation; Teaching skills and techniques; test design; testing; Testing & Measurement; Testing, Measurement and Assessment; United States; Meeting the Challenges to Measurement in an Era of Accountability; achievement; evidence-centered design; Design Patterns; Automatically Scored; ECD Approach; principled assessment design; measurement; IRT Model; evaluation; Task Templates; assessment; Arts Assessment; portfolio; NAEP Science Assessment; Student Growth Percentile; AP World History; Henry Braun; Construct Irrelevant Variance; test design; accountability; Assessment Design; NGSS Lead States; ECD Process; Professional Development; NRC Framework; testing; ECD; non-tested subjects and grades; Selected Response Items; Selected Response Tasks; NCLB Requirement; Constructed Response Items; ACTFL OPI; Potential Work Products; Performance Assessments; Historical Thinking Skills; National Governors Association Center

Under pressure and support from the federal government, states have increasingly turned to indicators based on student test scores to evaluate teachers and schools, as well as students themselves. The focus thus far has been on test scores in those subject areas where there is a sequence of consecut...