Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j2MIOUC12410; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:24:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:24:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <005c01c52f0d$7e58db40$0202a8c0@frodo> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Marie Cora" <marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1007] Use of test scores X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 37 Hi everyone, Larry posed some really good questions I think. I often wonder if people/programs use data for program improvement (and how), so the variation below on that theme is particularly interesting for me: Do teachers/program staff have access to test scores? Do they use them? How? If not, why not? How are they useful -- do they help instruction? What are the shortcomings? What could be done at the state/federal levels to help programs use test scores? For example what kinds of analysis/assistance might be helpful? For example, of the list of assessments that can be used for the NRS (and I don't have that in front of me so I don't know them all off hand), what do you get out of the TABE, BEST Plus, CASAS, for example? The NRS certainly uses that data - but can you or do you? How and what for? Does it inform your teaching and your classroom? Has anyone developed performance assessments that are being used now for the NRS? Intuitively I feel like that type of assessment would be readily used by teachers, but that it is less accessible for the NRS. Larry, can you or anyone comment on this? Thanks, marie marie cora Moderator, NIFL Assessment Discussion List, and Coordinator/Developer LINCS Assessment Special Collection at http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/ marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com
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