New Assessments, Better Instruction? Designing Assessment Systems to Promote Instructional Improvement

• Main Author: Faxon-Mills, Susannah (auth)
• Other Authors: Hamilton, Laura S. (auth), Rudnick, Mollie (auth), Stecher, Brian M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2013
• Subjects: Educational strategies & policy; Education
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact th...