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Assessment Special Collection Selection Criteria
 

Goal
The goal of the Assessment Special Collection is to provide access to quality on-line resources to practitioners and administrators dealing with assessment issues in adult literacy programs. Topics include:

  • general information and overviews on adult learner assessment
  • alternative standardized and informal assessment processes and instruments
  • commercial standardized assessment instruments
  • policy information on adult learner assessment
  • the latest research being conducted on adult learner assessment


    Audience
    The resources are chosen with the following audiences in mind:

  • Practitioners who conduct formative and summative assessment with adult learners
  • Coordinators and directors of programs who conduct assessment with adult learners, who supervise staff whose responsibilities include administering assessments, or who must understand the implications of policy and research in assessment at the state and national levels


    Relevance

  • Sites or materials must relate to educational assessment, preferably focused directly on adult basic education
  • Sites or materials must provide practitioners with immediately useful information and ideas that they can readily apply in order to and enhance their classroom practice in assessment
  • Sites or materials must provide program coordinators and managers with immediately useful policy and practical information that can help them improve staff and program performance in assessment
  • Sites or materials should be based on current research in assessment wherever possible and/or applicable


    Quality

  • Sites or materials must be accurate in their content and be based on the current research or accepted practice in formative and summative assessment
  • The Collection should present a complete array of adult learner assessment approaches that are either based on current research or that have practical value to the field
  • Older materials in adult learner assessment with proven value to the field may be included



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