Assessment in the Service of Learning: Proceedings of the 1987 ETS Invitational Conference

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Educational Testing Service, Jan 1, 1988 - Education - 117 pages
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Proceedings of a conference on educational assessment are presented. A speech accompanying presentations of the 1987 Educational Testing Service Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement and a list of winners of that annual award from 1970 to 1987 are included. The nine papers provided include: (1) "How Assessment Can Best Serve Teaching and Learning" (Bill Honig); (2) "Progress in Measurement, Cognitive Science, and Technology That Can Change the Relation between Instruction and Assessment" (Richard E. Snow); (3) "Testing in the Service of Learning Science: Learning-Assessment Systems That Promote Educational Excellence and Equality" (Joseph I. Lipson); (4) "Cognitive and Environmental Perspectives on Assessing Achievement" (Robert Glaser); (5) "The Teacher's Role in Using Assessment To Improve Learning" (Robert Calfee and Elfrieda Hiebert); (6) "The Wedding of Instruction and Assessment in the Classroom" (Margaret C. Wang); (7) "The Integration of Instruction and Assessment in Technical Jobs" (Alan Lesgold); (8) "Assessing Technical Expertise in Today's Work Environments" (Sherrie P. Gott); and (9) "A Realist's Appraisal of the Prospects for Unifying Instruction and Assessment" (Nancy S. Cole). (TJH)

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Contents

Progress in Measurement Cognitive Science and Technology
9
LearningAssessment
27
Cognitive and Environmental Perspectives on Assessing
37
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About the author (1988)

Educational Testing Service (ETS), based in Princeton, New Jersey, is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to educational measurement and research, primarily through testing. ETS develops and administers millions of achievement tests each year in the United States and 180 other countries. These include the TOEFL(R), GRE(R), Praxis(R), and other standardized tests.

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TitleAssessment in the Service of Learning: Proceedings of the 1987 ETS Invitational Conference
E T S INVITATIONAL CONFERENCE//PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings of the 1987 ETS Invitational Conference
ContributorEducational Testing Service
Editionillustrated
PublisherEducational Testing Service, 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 4, 2008
ISBN0886850703, 9780886850708
Length117 pages
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