Web quest Activity

Task

Students are to visit the following websites to find the answers

Evaluation

Appropriate Use of High-Stakes Testing in Our Nation’s schools

(http://www.aera.net/about/policy/stakes.htm

  1. According to the organization APA, they believe that tests…
    1. When used properly are among the most sound and objective ways to measure student performance
    2. When used correctly are the least objective way to measure student performance
    3. Neither a or b
    4. Which of the following choices is NOT one of the ways the APA organization describes as an effect of high stake testing?
    5. Tests when used appropriately can be valid measures of…
      1. Student achievement
      2. Low performance
      3. Testing principles
      4. According to the apa.org, many school districts are mandating _____________ to measure student performance and to hold individual schools and school systems accountable for that performance.
        1. Remedial programs
        2. Student dropouts
        3. Graduation rate
        5. Essay: Explain the principles that are designed to promote fitness in testing and avoid unintended consequences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Educational Research Association National Center for Fair and Open Testing

(http://www.aera.net/policyandprograms/?id=378)

  1. 1.      What does AERA stand for?
    1. The American Empowerment Research Association
    2. The American Educational Research Association
    3. The American Enriched Research Association
    4. 2.      The AERA’s position statement on high stakes testing is based on the
      1. 1999 Standards for the Educational and Psychological Testing
      2. 1990 Standards for the Remediation and Disability Testing
      3. 2009 Standards for the Educational and Psychological Testing
      4. 3.      Certain uses of achievement test results are termed “_________ __________” if they carry ant serious consequences for the students for educators.
        1. High stakes
        2. Great performance
        3. Organizational stakes
        4. 4.      The AERA is the nation’s largest professional organization devoted to the scientific study of _____________________.
        5. 5.      Explain what Education Research is.

 

 

National Center for Fair & Open Testing

(http://www.fairtest.org)

 

  1. The Fair Test Organization provides information, technical assistance, advocacy on a broad range of testing concerns, focusing on three areas:
  2. K-12, University Admissions, and Employment Tests
  3. 6-12, employment applications, private schools
  4. K-12, employment benefits, university denials
  5. The national Center for Fair and Open Testing works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is
    1. Fair, open, valid and educational beneficial
    2. Understandable, important, priority
    3. Unfair closed, non-valid and educational beneficial
  6. Fair Test’s work to _________ the role of standardized tests as gate keepers to higher education
    1. Increase
    2. Reduce
    3. Constantly keep
  7. Fair Test publishes an electronic newsletter called the ________________________.
  8. What is the Fair Test’s missions and what do they represent?

 

 

 

 

 

 National Center for Educational Statistics

(http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard)

  1. 1.      The NAEP stands for
    1. National Association for Educational Purpose
    2. National Association for Exceptional People
    3. National Center for Educational Progress
    4. 2.      The NAEP results serve as a common ___________ for all states and selected urban districts.
    5. 3.      The NAEP assessment are administered ________ using the same sets of test booklets across the nation.
      1. Uniformly
      2. Unorganized
      3. Differently 


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