Research and Evaluation

• Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment from the National Academy of Sciences reports how advances in the fields of cognitive and measurement sciences can form the foundations of an improved approach to educational assessment.
  
   
• National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing focuses on the research and development of scientifically based evaluation and testing techniques, promoting the accurate use of data, test scores, and technology for improved accountability and decision making.
  
   
• Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation is an online journal with refereed articles about issues and practices in education. The manuscripts published are intended to help practitioners keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends, and research developments.
  
   
• Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues reports on how to set quality guidelines for the standardization of performance-based assessments for the National Reporting System (NRS).

Noteworthy Practices

• Developing Performance Assessments for Adult Literacy Learners PDF (278 KB) explains the steps required to develop standardized performance-based assessments that meet NRS guidelines.
   

Additional Links

• TestLink, the Education Testing Service Test Collection Database, includes an extensive library of standardized tests and other measurement devices.
   
• Literacy Assessment in Adult Basic Education. An overview of the literacy skills that adult basic education assessments are measuring, the tools that are used to make those measurements, and the issues related to their administration.