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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
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Hamilton, Laura S., Rudnick, Mollie, Stecher, Brian M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2013.
Subjects:
Educational evaluation > United States.
Educational tests and measurements > United States.
School improvement programs > United States.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational evaluation.
Educational tests and measurements.
School improvement programs.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"Sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation."
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 50 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-50).
ISBN:9780833083012
0833083015
9780833081889
0833081888