Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness
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Williamson M. Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. He specializes in research on education policy - especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, and accountability from kindergarten through high school. From July to December 2003, he served as senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Task Force on K-12 Education, is University Scholar and emeritus professor of education and psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on educational productivity and human accomplishments.
Content
- Front Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction and Overview - Williamson M. Evers and Herbert J.Walberg
- Part One: Setting the Stage
- 1. Examinations for Educational Productivity - Herbert J.Walberg
- 2. Why Testing Experts Hate Testing - Richard P. Phelps
- Part Two: Constructive Uses of Tests
- 3. Early Reading Assessment - Barbara R. Foorman, Jack M. Fletcher, and David J. Francis
- 4. Science and Mathematics Testing: What's Right and Wrong with the NAEP and the TIMSS? - Stan Metzenberg
- 5. Telling Lessons from the TIMMS Videotape - Alan R. Siegel
- Part Three: Constructive Tests for Accountability
- 6. Portfolio Assessment and Education Reform - Brian Stecher
- 7. Using Performance Assessment for Accountability Purposes - William A. Mehrens
- Part Four: State Testing Policies
- 8. Learning from Kentucky's Failed Accountability System - George K. Cunningham
- 9. Accountability Works in Texas - Darvin M.Winick and Sandy Kress
- Appendix: Conference Agenda
- Contributors
- Index
