Open AccessImpact of Instructional Assessment on Elementary Children's Achievement
Author(s) -
Samuel J. Meisels
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.727
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v11n9.2003
Subject(s) - curriculum , psychology , mathematics education , student achievement , academic achievement , contrast (vision) , school district , race (biology) , primary education , medical education , pedagogy , medicine , sociology , gender studies , artificial intelligence , computer science
This study examined the trajectory of change in scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) of low-income, urban, third and fourth graders who had been enrolled in classrooms where the Work Sampling System (WSS), a curriculum-embedded performance assessment, was used for at least three years. The ITBS scores of children exposed to WSS were compared with those of students in a group of non-WSS contrast schools that were matched by race, income, mobility, school size, and number of parents in the home and to a comparison group of all other students in the school district.