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

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...

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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
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Summary: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 that assessment may have on practice.
ISBN:j.ctt5hhtkh
9780833083012
Access:Open Access