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Recent Research on Assessment

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Matching ELLs with appropriate accommodation
Inappropriate accommodations may hamper student performance in a standardized math tests just as much as having no accommodations at all.

Teachers describe challenges of developing formative assessment tasks
Teachers found it difficult to translate assessment criteria into language their pupils could understand.

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EARLY LITERACY
Early assessments for reading miss problems that emerge in grades 2-4

Identifying early literacy problems

Caution needed in use of Observation Survey

Teachers need to be more accurate in identifying early literacy problems

STATEWIDE TESTS
Classroom-based assessment makes preparation for statewide test more instructionally useful

Oral reading fluency predicts students' performance on statewide tests

Curriculum-based measurement helps evaluate writing progress before high-stakes tests

Frequent assessments of student progress reduce pressure to teach to test

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Using assessment as opportunity for learning can bring dramatic changes

Making sure assessment improves learning

Key decisions a district must make before choosing a formative assessment system

RTI
Key issues in RTI implementation

Math screenings in 1st grade and RTI can detect math disabilities early

MONITORING PROGRESS
Don't judge individual students by standards-based test results, study says

Rapid assessment most cost-effective way to raise achievement

Questions to and from students in the classroom can work as 'assessment conversations'

CBMs predict performance on statewide assessments 1-2 years later

If weekly CBMs are too much, testing less frequently is also valid

ISSUES IN TESTING
Torrance tests identify talents of children seen as behavior problems

Optimal number of items in multiple-choice tests

Kentucky's portfolio assessment for writing doubles as cost-effective professional development for teachers

NCLB
8 lessons from NCLB

Pros and cons of NCLB

How lowest ranked schools made AYP

One-third of schools didn't make AYP

MATH
Read-aloud testing improves math scores in high school

High school math students score higher when parents sign off on monitoring sheets

Reading as a confounding factor in math assessments

Aligning assessments with major reforms in math curriculum: Lessons from Ontario

GRADING
How to grade individuals for group work: Peer- and self-assessments may be key

Self-grading more effective than peer grading

How should student effort influence teachers' grading?

PARENTS
Parents' thoughts about alternative tests

Public understanding of the limitations of tests

ETHICS
Standards for high-stakes tests

What's fair and unfair in assessment

SCIENCE
Working with metacognitive questions after reading helps 4th graders access science text

SELF-TESTING
Students underuse self-testing as study strategy