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Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting Student Achievement Through Large-Scale Assessment Results

Research, Reflections, and Future Directions

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant

Sara E. Bolt

Michigan State University, East Lansing

The intent of large-scale assessment systems is to promote student achievement toward specific standards by holding schools accountable for the performance of all students. However, it is difficult to know whether large-scale assessment systems are having this intended effect as they are currently implemented. In this article, the authors examine the research on intended and unintended consequences of large-scale assessment and accountability systems, highlight critical issues in using large-scale assessment programs to measure student learning and to inform intervention, and provide guidelines for promoting the intervention validity of large-scale assessments.

Key Words: large-scale assessment • student achievement • standards • schools

This version was published on December 1, 2008

Assessment for Effective Intervention, Vol. 34, No. 1, 43-51 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1534508408314173


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