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FairTest Fact Sheet: The Value of Formative Assessment HTML
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The Expert Panel on Assessment recommends overhaul of NCLB testing and accountability provisions.
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See the Executive Summary
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See the Press Release
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Refocusing Accountability: Using Local Performance Assessments to Enhance Teaching and Learning for Higher Order Skills – paper co-authored by FairTest; with language to amend NCLB law.
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How the Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems Should Affect Practice presented by Monty Neill, AERA Annual Meeting, New York City, April 9, 1996 (Minor revisions, April 17, 1996).
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Learning Record Shows Promise For Accountability Uses by Monty Neill
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Inside the Black Box, Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment, by Paul Black and Dylan William, Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998. Also see FairTest Review theValue of Formative Assessment – Winter 1998-99.
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Important school and student attributes that should be assessed but are not by standardized tests – by Ron Berger, educator from Massachusetts.
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Assessment of ELL Students under NCLB: Problems and Solutions.
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FairTest’s response to Instructionally Supportive Assessment’s Commission report on improving state assessment programs
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Transforming Student Assessment, by Monty Neill, FairTest Executive Director, Phi Delta Kappan, Sept. 1997.
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See excerpts from the December 2001 Phi Delta Kappan magazine story, which endorses the Massachusetts Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education’s Authentic Assessment plan. Let’s Treat the Cause, Not the Symptoms: Equity And Accountability in Texas Revisited,” by Richard R. Valencia, Angela Valenzuela, Kris Sloan, and Douglas E. Foley Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 83, No. 4, December 2001
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Why is Looking at Student Work Important? by Kate Nolan, Director of Re-Thinking Accountability
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New report: Opening Classrooms and Improving Teaching: Lessons from School Inspections in England