ACT is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to measurement and research primarily in support of individuals making educational, career, and work place transitions.

The Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, history, geography, the arts, and other fields. By making information on student ...

FairTest The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Make a donation of $30 or more and receive our newsletter, the Examiner, for a year. Students and teachers protest the Federally mandated testing plan at the National Education Summit. Find out more. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ...

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The Buros Institute, publishers of The Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print, provides critical analyses of tests and testing instruments.

Navigation Bar: Directory | Educator's Guides | FAQ | Letters to Districts | Released Tests | Results | TAKS | Testing Calendar | Contact Us | Spring 2002 Campus and District TAAS Results Spring 2002 Scoring Guides Spring 2002 Released Tests Student Success Initiative Achieve Report (PDF) The Student Assessment Division manages and oversees the development, administration, scoring, and analysis ...

2003 NCME Call for Proposals online -6/26/2002 June 2002 NCME Newsletter online. -5/31/2002 Call for Nominations: EM:IP Editor -5/22/2002 Spring 2002 EM:IP Table of Contents posted -5/14/2002 NCME is an organization that is incorporated exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes. Its purposes include: Encouragement of scholarly efforts to: Advance the science of ...

This report looks at standardized tests like the SAT and examines the national obsession over the SAT test. How fair, reliable and democratic is the SAT and what has been its impact on racial diversity on campus This documentary also explores the history of the SAT and meritocracy in the United States and the booming test prep business of coaching college applicants ...

The National Association of Test Directors (NATD) is an association of professionals with responsibilities for administering assessment programs in K-12 public educational settings. The membership is broadly representative of North America. Look below to see what's new! NATD is a part of the Joint Committee on Testing Practices. As an NATD member you are invited to provide input on the Code of ...

The Board on Testing and Assessment was created to assist policymakers and the public by providing scientific expertise around critical issues of testing and assessment in education, the workplace, and the armed services.

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Link to the press release on this issue paper. Link to a Statement of RAND President and CEO, James A. Thomson What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us Stephen P. Klein, Laura S. Hamilton, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Brian M. Stecher Preface During the past decade, several states have begun using the results on statewide tests as the basis for rewarding and sanctioning individual students, teachers, and ...

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Research, articles, and information about HIGH STAKES TESTS and their misuse.

Provides information on the appropriate use of testing in schools. Although testing is a valuable part of educational assessment, when tests are used in high-stakes circumstances, a number of safeguards must be in place.

Statewide Mathematics Assessment in Texas Paul Clopton, Wayne Bishop*, and David Klein** Mathematically Correct * Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles ** Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge Permission to reproduce for non-commercial purposes without modification is granted. Table of Contents Abstract Introduction ...

Equity Center Publications and Resources Educate America: A Call for Equity in School Reform Student Assessment and Testing In the current debate about nation wide educational restructuring, perhaps no issue is more central to the concerns of equity than that of student assessment. We have a long history of using questionably relevant tests to sort children for differential educational ...

Pundits charge that the Lone Star State s sharply higher reading and math scores are smoke and mirrors. But they are rock-solid--and here s the evidence.

As home schooling grows as a movement, there is increasing politics from anti-home school forces to try to interfere with or legislatively control home schoolers.

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Defenders of the new movement say that standards puts a fire under lazy school districts, teachers, and students.

Testing, International Comparisons and Curriculum Testing and SAT's Tests Are Not Creating More Dropouts Manhattan Institute Study: Education Freedom and Student Performance Test Detects Slight Improvement In Seniors' Math Skills Americans Support Testing, But Opposition Small And Vocal Who Writes And Scores Student Tests Developing A Test For Common Sense Extra SAT Test Time Given Those ...

Bush praises local districts' use of TAAS for promotion By MIKE W. THOMAS Avalanche-Journal The Lubbock-Cooper school district's new policy for using state standardized test scores to help determine student promotion and retention received praise Saturday from Gov. George W. Bush. When asked about the policy while attending the Texas Federation of Republican Women's state convention, Bush said ...

Lawmaker wants TAAS testing to include special ed students By MICHAEL BURTON Morris News Service AUSTIN - A Houston legislator has filed a bill that would require all state school districts to include most special education students in the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test or to design another test for them. All schoolchildren receiving special education services, about 410, 000, are ...

ClassConnections Start||Commentary on Proficiency Testing||Proficiency Start Page| |Enquirer Article||Graphs of the Data I||Graphs of Data II||Graphs of Data III| Examination and Critique of Ohio Proficiency Testing and Data Legislative mandating of proficiency testing in Ohio has proceeded with no condsideration for the realities of such testing. Recently the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper ...