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 ...

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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 ...

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

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.

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 ...