Testing, Teaching, and Learning:

A Guide for States and School Districts

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Size: 136 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:1999

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Richard F. Elmore and Robert Rothman, Editors; Committee on Title I Testing and Assessment, National Research Council
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State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-6	(skim)
1 Introduction	7-14	(skim)
2 Toward a Theory of Action	15-22	(skim)
3 Standards for Student Performance	23-41	(skim)
4 Assessments of Student Performance	42-73	(skim)
5 Monitoring the Conditions of Instruction	74-84	(skim)
6 Adequate Yearly Progress	85-90	(skim)
7 Accountability	91-101	(skim)
References	102-110	(skim)
Biographical Sketches	111-114	(skim)
Index	115-120	(skim)

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State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization of Title I, the largest federal effort in precollegiate education, which provides aid to "level the field" for disadvantaged students.

Testing, Teaching, and Learning is written to help states and school districts comply with the new law, offering guidance for designing and implementing assessment and accountability systems. This book examines standards-based education reform and reviews the research on student assessment, focusing on the needs of disadvantaged students covered by Title I. With examples of states and districts that have track records in new systems, the committee develops a practical "decision framework" for education officials.

The book explores how best to design assessment and accountability systems that support high levels of student learning and to work toward continuous improvement. Testing, Teaching, and Learning will be an important tool for all involved in educating disadvantaged students state and local administrators and classroom teachers.

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"...a valuable reference with a deceptive title. This is a book for all educators, not just state and district leaders. ... This book provides excellent descriptions of standards and assessment for student performance... I highly recommend this book for any educator who is involved in the reform process."
-- NSTA Recommends, April 2002

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