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Committee on Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Large-Scale and Classroom Assessment
This workshop project considered such questions as
- What is known about the relative success of current efforts to align classroom and large scale assessments with instruction, standards, and curriculum?
- To what extent do teachers currently make use of data from large-scale assessments, and what kinds of training are offered to assist them in doing so?
- What is known about procedures for and effects of using alternatives to standardized tests as sources of data for accountability purposes?
- What opportunities might advances in our understanding of cognition and learning or technological advances offer that may make new and better modes of educational measurement possible?
- What might be learned from practices in other countries where this issue either has been addressed differently or has not arisen because different strategies were adopted from the start?
A publication was produced containing the procedures developed and used by the steering committee to select the featured programs, and a summary of the workshop including critical issues for the future as identified by participants during the workshop discussion. The publication was directed toward an audience of practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.
Workshop Report
Roster:
J. Myron Atkin, (Chair), Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Eva Baker, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Jan de Lange, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Tom Keller, Maine Department of Education, Augusta, ME
James Minstrell, Talaria, Inc., Seattle, WA
Marge Petit, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Portsmouth, NH
Anthony Scott, Chicago, IL
Loretta Shephard, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
For more information contact:
Board on Testing and Assessment
The National Academies
at The Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW – 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
Telephone: 202-334-3087
Fax: 202-334-1294
E-mail: lalston@nas.edu
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