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| | Building Tests to Support Instruction and Accountability |
| | Information from The Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment concerning best practices for designing and implementing standardized testing.
http://www.testaccountability.org - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education |
| | The code states the major obligations to professionals who develop or use educational tests. The code is meant to apply broadly to the use of tests in education (admissions, educational assessment, educational diagnosis, and student placement).
http://www.apa.org/science/fairtestcode.html - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Collaborative Testing and Test Performance |
| | Presents the results of a study that shows that collaborative testing alone has a significant positive association with test performance.
http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo2609j4.htm - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | National Assessment Governing Board |
| | Provides specifics on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as well as the proposed Voluntary National Tests in Reading and Math.
http://www.nagb.org/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) |
| | NAEP reports on U.S. student performance with comprehensive information about what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 know and can do in various subject areas.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Number 2 Pencil |
| | A psychometrician's weblog devoted to standardized testing. Aimed at parents, teachers, and general readers. Includes ideas, research and news.
http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Organizations and Individuals to Contact for Information on Testing |
| | Directory of contact information for the testing industry.
http://www.richardphelps.net/OrgstoContactNew.htm - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation |
| | Referreed, full-text on-line journal whose purpose is to provide education professionals access to relevant articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practices.
http://pareonline.net/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Question Base |
| | A free questions editor and tester. The program must be downloaded before any questions can be identified.
http://lanther.co.uk/index.php?page=3.1 - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing |
| | Addresses professional and technical issues of test development and use in education, psychology and employment [ordering information].
http://www.apa.org/science/standards.html - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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