Presidential Address—The End(s) of Testing

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ID9735298
AuthorsEva L Baker (2006–2007 President of AERA, is Distinguished Professor and Director at the University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing -CRESST-, 300 Charles E. Young Drive North, Room 301, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1522; . Her research interests are the integration of learning research and assessment, including design and empirical validation of principles for developing technologically based measures of complex human performance, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume36
Issue6
Pages309-317
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x07307970
OpenAlexW1987639097
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited38

This expanded version of the 2007 Presidential Address for the American Educational Research Association approaches changes in assessment and accountability from the perspective of achieving balance. The author identifies unresolved conceptual and practical issues in the use of assessment in the schools and describes approaches intended to mitigate problems or improve practice. An example is given from formative assessment research that integrates some of these approaches (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, at the University of California, Los Angeles). International examples of performance and assessment are also reviewed. The author suggests that secondary school assessment be modified to focus students on acquiring concrete Qualifications that certify important accomplishments, with a wide choice of Qualification areas. She argues that using concrete accomplishments and restructuring tests will help schools and their students to regain needed balance

Accountability · Conceptual framework · Educational assessment · Educational research · Engineering ethics · Formative assessment · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Presidential address · Presidential system · Public relations · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Standardized test · Standards-based assessment · Summative assessment · Test (biology · Educational Assessment and Pedagogy · Engineering · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Psychology · Public Administration · Student Assessment and Feedback

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