Implementing a national assessment of educational achievement

• Main Authors: Greaney, Vincent, Kellaghan, Thomas
• Format: eBook Book Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC World Bank 2012; World Bank Publications; The World Bank
• Edition: 1
• Series: National assessments of educational achievement
• Subjects: ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATION; ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS; ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS; ACHIEVEMENT TESTS; ACHIEVEMENTS; Administration; ASSESSMENT AGENCY; ASSESSMENT CENTER; ASSESSMENT DESIGN; ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK; ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS; ASSESSMENT REPORTS; ASSESSMENT TEAMS; BOOK DESIGN; CLASS TEACHER; CLASSROOM; CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE; CLASSROOM PRACTICE; CLASSROOM TEACHERS; CLASSROOMS; COMPLEX TASK; CURRICULUM; Data analysis; Data collection; DATA ENTRY; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DEMONSTRATION; DISTRICT EDUCATION; Education; EDUCATION AID; EDUCATION AUTHORITIES; EDUCATION MANAGEMENT; EDUCATION MANAGERS; EDUCATION POLICIES; EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATION QUALITY; EDUCATION SYSTEM; EDUCATION SYSTEMS; EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT; EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENTS; EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY; EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION; Educational evaluation > United States; EDUCATIONAL FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL POLICY; EDUCATIONAL QUALITY; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS; EDUCATIONAL TESTING; EDUCATIONAL TESTS; Educational tests and measurements; Educational tests and measurements > United States; ELEMENTS; ENROLLMENT; ENROLLMENT DATA; ETHNIC GROUPS; Evaluation; EXAMINATION BOARD; EXAMINATION BOARDS; EXAMINATION OFFICIALS; FIELDS OF MATHS; FIRST LANGUAGE; FORMAL TRAINING; GENDER DIFFERENCES; HIGH-STAKES; HIGHER GRADES; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL STUDIES; LEARNING; LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; LEARNING OUTCOMES; LEVEL OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT; LINGUISTIC GROUPS; LITERACY; LOCAL RADIO; Methodology; MINISTRIES OF EDUCATION; MINISTRY OF EDUCATION; NATIONAL ASSESSMENT; NATIONAL ASSESSMENT DATA; NATIONAL ASSESSMENT FINDINGS; NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS; NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS; NUMBER OF SCHOOLS; NUMERACY; PRIMARY LEVEL; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS; PRIMARY TEACHERS; PRINCIPALS; PRINTING; PRIVATE SCHOOLS; PROJECT PLANNING; PUBLIC EXAMINATION; PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS; PUBLIC EXAMS; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF EDUCATION; READERS; READING; RECORD OF ATTENDANCE; RELIABILITY; REMOTE SCHOOLS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL STUDENTS; SALARY INCREASES; Sampling; SCHOOL DATA; SCHOOL HOURS; SCHOOL INSPECTORS; SCHOOL PERSONNEL; SCHOOL PRINCIPAL; SCHOOL SIZE; SCHOOL SYSTEM; SCHOOL YEAR; SCHOOLING; SCHOOLS; Schulleistungsmessung; SCIENCE ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE STUDY; SCIENCE TEACHER; SCRIPT; SEATING ARRANGEMENT; SEATING ARRANGEMENTS; SECOND LANGUAGE; SECONDARY SCHOOL; SECONDARY SCHOOL SCIENCE; SECONDARY SCIENCE; SKILL LEVELS; SOCIAL COHESION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STATISTICAL ANALYSES; STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT; STUDENT ASSESSMENT; STUDENT LEARNING; STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES; STUDENT PARTICIPATION; STUDENT PREPARATION; Students; SUBJECT AREA; SUBJECT MATTER; TEACHER; TEACHER EDUCATION; TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS; TEACHER EDUCATORS; TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES; TEACHER TRAINERS; TEACHERS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE; TECHNICAL SKILLS; TEST ADMINISTRATION; TEST ADMINISTRATORS; TEST DEVELOPMENT; TEST RESULTS; TEST SCORES; TEST TAKING; TEXTBOOK; TYPES OF SCHOOLS; U.S.A; UNANNOUNCED VISITS; United States; UNIVERSITIES; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; USA; VALIDITY; WORK PRACTICES; ASSESSMENT SAMPLING; STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TESTING; STUDENT ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; LEARNING ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL TESTING; ASSESSMENT LOGISTICS
• ISBN: 9780821385890; 9780821385906; 0821385895; 0821385909
• DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8589-0

Implementation of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement focuses on the practical tasks involved in running a large-scale national assessment program. It has four parts. Part I provides an overview of the tasks involved – how the essential activities of an assessment are organized and implemented, the personnel and resources that are required, and the tasks that follow the collection of data. In Part II, a methodology for selecting a sample of students that will be representative of students in the education system is presented. Principles underlying sampling are described, as well as step-by-step procedures that can be implemented in nearly any national assessment. An accompanying CD contains supporting data files.Part III describes procedures for cleaning and managing data collected in a national assessment, essential elements of a quality assurance process. It also describes how to export and import data, that is, make data available in a format that is appropriate for users of statistical software such as Access, SPSS, WesVar, and Excel. The primary objective of this section is to enable the national assessment team develop and implement a systematic set of procedures to help ensure that the assessment data are accurate and reliable. Following sampling, test administration, data entry, and cleaning, the next step is to prepare data for analysis.In Part IV, a series of important pre-analysis steps, including producing estimates, computing and using survey weights, and computing estimates are described. The section dealing with the computation of estimates describes how they and their sampling errors are computed from simple and complex samples. Finally, a range of special topics, including nonresponse and issues relating to over-and under-size schools, is addressed.