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Designing a Sustainable Standards-Based Assessment System

 
 
Product Description  This publication offers guidance on designing an effective and sustainable standards-based assessment system.
Authors  Don Burger
Target Audience  Administrators and policymakers
Ways to Use this Product  As a tool to help educators develop sustainable standards-based assessment systems
Key Ideas  
  • Designing and implementing a sustainable standards-based assessment system that consistently yields high student achievement involves more than setting and measuring academic goals.

  • The process of changing to a standards frame of reference provides an opportunity to re-examine the organizational elements of a school system: fundamental purpose, principles, policies, practices, programs, and procedures.

  • This article describes each of the organizational elements and addresses the ways in which each of these elements influences the design of a sustainable standards-based assessment system.
How to Get this Product  View/Download the PDF
APA Citation  Burger, D. (1998). Designing a sustainable standards-based assessment system. Aurora, CO: Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory.
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