TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment for Monitoring of Education Systems
T2 - The U.S. Example
AU - Fahle, Erin M.
AU - Shear, Benjamin R.
AU - Shores, Kenneth A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by The American Academy of Political and Social Science.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Standardized tests are regularly used as education system monitoring tools to compare the average performance of students living in different states or belonging to different subgroups (e.g., defined by race/ethnicity, sex, or parental income) and to track their progress over time. This article describes some uses and design features of tests in system monitoring contexts. We provide the example of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only large-scale system monitoring test in the United States. The availability of NAEP data, in turn, has facilitated the construction of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), a publicly available database that can be used to describe patterns of achievement for nearly all school districts in the United States. Here, we discuss progress in and challenges to the use of standardized tests as system monitoring tools.
AB - Standardized tests are regularly used as education system monitoring tools to compare the average performance of students living in different states or belonging to different subgroups (e.g., defined by race/ethnicity, sex, or parental income) and to track their progress over time. This article describes some uses and design features of tests in system monitoring contexts. We provide the example of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only large-scale system monitoring test in the United States. The availability of NAEP data, in turn, has facilitated the construction of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), a publicly available database that can be used to describe patterns of achievement for nearly all school districts in the United States. Here, we discuss progress in and challenges to the use of standardized tests as system monitoring tools.
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U2 - 10.1177/0002716219841014
DO - 10.1177/0002716219841014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067182098
SN - 0002-7162
VL - 683
SP - 58
EP - 74
JO - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
JF - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
IS - 1
ER -