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October 1985 | Volume 43 | Number 2

The Search for Solutions to the Testing Problem


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Original Cover/Front Matter

Overview / The Search for Solutions

Ron Brandt

Making Testing More Educational

Walt Haney

Testing in a Democracy

Harold Berlak

Why the States Must Move Quickly to Assess Excellence

Donald W. Burnes and Barbara J. Lindner

Indicators of Educational Quality

Steve Kaagan and Marshall S. Smith

Computerized Adaptive Testing

James R. McBride

Needed: Better Methods for Testing Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Edys S. Quellmalz

You Don't Need a Special “Reasoning” Test to Implement and Evaluate Reasoning Training

Arthur Whimbey

A Statewide Approach to Measuring Critical Thinking Skills

Robert J. Sternberg and Joan B. Baron

A Logical Basis for Measuring Critical Thinking Skills

Robert H. Ennis

Integrating Teaching and Testing with Program Management

Del Schalock, Glen Fielding, Mark Schalock, John Erickson and Michael Brott

Establishing the Credibility of Test Results

Paul G. LeMahieu and Richard C. Wallace, Jr.

Using Formative Testing at the Classroom, School, and District Levels

Katherine Conner, Jerald Hairston, Inez Hill, Henry Kopple, John Marshall, Karen Scholnick and Marcia Schulman

Improving Assessment Where It Means the Most: In the Classroom

Richard J. Stiggins

Final Examinations as Tools for Instructional Management

Glenn F. Smartschan

Supervising and Evaluating Principals: Lessons from Effective Districts

Joseph Murphy, Philip Hallinger and Kent D. Peterson

Brain-Compatible Learning Succeeds

Charmaine Della Neve

Trends: Textbook Selection / How to Determine Which Textbooks Are Easiest to Read and Remember

Connie Muther

Trends: Reading / Does Research Support Whole-Class Reading Instruction?

Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham

Trends: Science / Textbooks Can Supplement the Curriculum

John F. Penick and Robert E. Yager

Trends: Mathematics / Will Calculators Rot Our Minds?

Stephen S. Willoughby

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