New assessments, better instruction? designing assessment systems to promote instructional improvement

This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact th...

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Main Author: Faxon-Mills, Susannah
Other Authors: Hamilton, Laura S., Rudnick, Mollie, Stecher, Brian M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica RAND Corporation 2013, 2013
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505 0 |a Focus on Test-Taking StrategiesChanges in Instructional Strategies; Changes in Classroom Assessment Practices; Changes in Teachers' Interactions with Students; Using Test Results to Individualize Instruction; Focus on "Bubble Kids"; 4. Conditions That Influence Educators' Responses to Assessment; Attributes of the Tests and Testing Programs; Purpose and Use of Test; Quality of the Assessment; Testing Format; Accountability Context; Nature of Consequences; Accountability Metrics and Decision Rules; Educator Background, Beliefs, and Knowledge; Domain Knowledge; Teacher Beliefs 
505 0 |a Familiarity with AssessmentEndorsement of Assessment; School and Student Characteristics; School Characteristics; Aggregate Student Performance; Policy and Practice; Use of Time; Professional Development; Collaboration; Curriculum; 5. Conclusions; Conditions Relating to the Tests and the Testing Programs; Conditions Relating to Educator Capacity and Beliefs; Conditions Relating to the Accountability Context; Conditions Relating to District/School Policy; Summary; References 
505 0 |a Cover; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figure; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Methods; Framework; Curriculum Standards; Assessment; Accountability; District/School Policy; Educator Background, Beliefs, and Knowledge; School Characteristics; Instructional Practices; Limitations; 3. How Educators Respond to Assessment; Changes in Curriculum Content and Emphasis; Changes in the Sequence of Topics; Reallocation of Content Across and Within Subjects; Focus on Basic Skills and Facts; Focus on Higher Skills and Cognitive Levels; Changes in Instructional Activities 
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520 |a This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact that assessment may have on practice