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Re: cost effective testing
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- Subject: Re: cost effective testing
- From: Renee <phoenixone@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:45:43 -0700
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Excuse my ignorance, but if a teacher is testing 2 to 5 times per week,
when are they teaching?
Renee
On Jul 4, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Peter Farruggio wrote:
Another number crunching finding in favor of even MORE benchmark
testing. Learning and critical thinking? Huh????
Disgusting!
Dear Readers,
Education Policy Analysis Archives has just published its latest
issue at
http://epaa.asu.edu/ and also at
http://www.epaa.info/ojs/index.php/epaa. We
invite you to visit our web sites to review articles and items of
interest.
The Cost-Effectiveness of Comprehensive School Reform and Rapid
Assessment
Stuart S. Yeh
University of Minnesota
Yeh, S. S. (2008). The cost-effectiveness of comprehensive school
reform
and rapid assessment. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 16(13).
Retrieved
[date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v16n13/.
Abstract
Analysis of the cost-effectiveness of 29 Comprehensive School Reform
(CSR)
models suggests that all 29 models are less cost-effective than an
alternative approach for raising student achievement, involving rapid
assessment systems that test students 2 to 5 times per week in math
and
reading and provide rapid feedback of the results to students and
teachers.
Results suggest that reading and math achievement could increase
approximately one order of magnitude greater for every dollar
invested in
rapid assessment rather than CSR. The results also suggest that
reading and
math achievement could increase two orders of magnitude for every
dollar
invested in rapid assessment rather than class size reduction and
three
orders of magnitude for every dollar invested in rapid assessment
rather
than high quality preschool.
Keywords: comprehensive school reform; formative evaluation; cost
effectiveness; reading; math
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread
with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb
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