1. Welcome to Educational Measurements
Principles and Practices for Effective Standards-Based Instruction

2. What do you think? Assessment vs. Testing
What is Assessment?
What do you think?
Assessment vs. Testing

3. Assessment is a Process
Of gathering information
Of evaluating the information
Using the information to modify and drive instruction
It is a comprehensive evaluation made up of many components
It can & should span an entire semester/year

4. What is a Test? It occurs on a specific day
It is a snap-shot of the student’s ability
It is only one component of the process

5. Test are Tools which can be:
Appropriately used
Unintentionally misused
Intentionally abused
Well designed
Poorly designed
The usefulness of the test varies depending on the persons/purpose

6. As a Teacher, you must know how to:
Design “good” tests
Use tests as a tool for lesson modification and to increase student performance
Interpret test results

7. Assessment Vs. Testing

8. A look at The Educational Reform Movement
Prominent for the last 25 years
Called for the development of tests and assessment-based accountability Programs
(50 states & district of Columbia)

9. tests were used to suppress minorities
The beginning of looking at the testing process
Questioned the purpose/validity of testing
tests were used to suppress minorities

10. 1980’s
A great increase in Standardized Testing which was driven by the release of the report by the NCEE -
A Nation at Risk
1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education

11. 2002 NCLB - No Child Left Behind Act
Made testing/assessment base accountability programs a requirement in school systems

12. The Goal of NCLB
Intended to raise overall achievement, but especially for economical disadvantaged youth. Controversial  High Stakes Testing Test scores should never be the sole basis for high stakes decision making

13. We have moved from traditional testing to authentic based assessments.
Where Are We today?
We have moved from traditional testing to authentic based assessments.