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Alternative Assessments

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.2933

Bethesda, MD : distributed by Discovery Program Enterprises, c1992

1 videocassette (ca. 22 min.)

Series Teacher TV; v. 11

Educational tests and measurements

Authentic Assessment: Setting the Stage

JMU Media Resources DVD 1531

Barrington, IL : Magna Systems, c2004
1 DVD (24 min.)

Series: Authentic Assessment & Documentation
This module sets the stage for understanding how children are observed within the context of their play as well as their culture, and how these observations are important to understanding their total development. When children are observed in the Social/Emotional, Cognitive, Physical and Language domains of development, teachers are better able to align assessment with curriculum.

Observation (Educational method)
Early childhood education
Child development

Balancing Learning Standards with Students' Diverse Learning Needs

JMU Media Resources DVD 3182

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006
1 DVD (17 min.)
Series: Teaching Diverse Learners
"If diversity and special needs are prominent factors in a learning environment, teachers may have to juggle mandated standards with students' personal challenges. This video addresses that balancing act, demonstrating how experienced educators have mastered it. Focusing on multilevel instructional planning, the program explores the use of educational channels, individualized support, and interpersonal engagement--showing how to deliver lessons and assess student progress based on communication style, learning preference, and other variables. An extensive bonus interview with Dr. Diane Ashby, Dean of Illinois State University's College of Education, is included." -- container.

Lesson planning
Education -- Standards
Students with disabilities

Criterion-Referenced Measurement: Today's Alternative to Traditional Testing

Memorial Hall ETMC  371.264 Cri

Culver City, CA : IOX Videotape Division, c1989

1 VHS (30 min.)

Describes what criterion-referenced tests are, how they are developed, and how they are used.

            Criterion-referenced tests

            Educational tests and measurements    

Cultural Bias in Education

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Science, 2003, 1992
1 DVD (28 min.)
This program examines roadblocks to Latino academic advancement as well as productive educational models; explores the relationship between standardized testing and cultural diversity and questions whether cultural bias can be eliminated from standardized testing; and looks at early childhood education programs and the factors that deter Latino families from participating in them.

Race awareness
Intercultural communication
Minorities -- Employment
Prejudices

Elementary Confusion

Memorial Hall ETMC   370 Mer v.3

New York : Merrow Report ; Learning Matters, Inc., c199

1 VHS (57 min.) + 1 guide

Series: The Merrow Report

A report concerning the debate on national education standards and who should set them.

            Education -- United States -- Standards

            Education -- United States -- Aims and objectives

The Impact of Goals 2000

Memorial Hall ETMC   371.2 Imp

Bloomington, IN : Phi Delta Kappa International, c2000

1 videocassette (30 min.) + 1 viewer's guide (1 folded sheet)

"This ... video program focuses on 'Goals 2000: What's in a name?', the lead article in the January 2000 issue of the Phi Delta Kappan.  The video features the article's author, Susan Ohanian, longtime teacher and author who lives in Charlotte, Vermont.  She is interviewed by Phillip Harris, former director of PDK's Center for Professional Development and Services" -- Viewer's guide.

            Education -- Standards -- United States

            Education and state -- United States

Looking at Student Work: A Window into the Classroom

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.6404       

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University [1999] c1997

1 VHS (28 min.)

Series: The Series on School Reform 

Explores a variety of ways in which looking at student work can help improve teaching and learning. Features students, teachers, and administrators at Norview High School in Norfolk, Va. who discuss their experiences in looking at student work

Note: Companion volumes: Assessing Student Learning, New York: Teachers College Press, c1998 and Looking Together at Student Work / Tina Blythe, David Allen, Barbara Schieffelin Powell. New York: Teachers College Press, c1999.

            Educational evaluation -- United States 

            Students -- Rating of -- United States 

            Effective teaching -- United States 

            Teacher effectiveness -- United States 

Observation of Young Children I: The Eyes Have It

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8514

Barrington, IL : Magna Systems, c2004

1 VHS (25 min.)

Series: Authentic Assessment & Documentation
Demonstrates how observation, work samples, and pictures are utilized by teachers to align curriculum with assessment.

Child development -- Testing
Early childhood education

Observation of Young Children II: Making the Connections

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8515

Barrington, IL: Magna Systems ; Wheeling, IL Film Ideas c2004

1 VHS (23 min.)

Series: Authentic Assessment and Documentation
A variety of portfolio systems will be explored. Teachers will demonstrate the linkage between the formative assessment system they are utilizing and how that data informs the formal assessment or checklist.

Child development -- Testing
Early childhood education

Performance Assessment: A Teacher's Way of Knowing

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.6017

Davis, Calif. : Davidson Films, [199-]

1 videocassette (21 min.)

The narrator discusses an effective method for assessing the academic accomplishment of school-aged children without resorting to standardized testing.

            Academic achievement -- United States -- Evaluation 

            Academic achievement -- United States -- Case studies 

Perspectives on Assessment and Evaluation

Memorial Hall ETMC   371.26 Per

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1996

1 VHS (29 min.)

Series: Assessment and Evaluation: Developing Tools to Measure Effectiveness

Director of the Assessment Training Institute, Richard Stiggins, and education advocate Asa Hilliard discuss the main issues involved in the assessment and evaluation process such as the need for a clear vision of what is being assessed, proper methods of assessment, careful sampling of students' work and awareness of bias within the assessment process.

            Educational tests and measurements -- Evaluation

            Educational evaluation

            Educational surveys

School Testing: Behind the Numbers

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.893

S.l.: Annenberg/CPB, c2002
1 VHS (57 min)
A group of panelists discuss the meaning and views that school testing has on everyone from the reporters who cover testing, their editors who shape the stories, students who take the tests, parents who want their children to do well, teachers who prepare students for the tests, administrators who must meet accountability requirements, respond to parents and encourage teachers, the policymakers who set the requirements and the experts who question the impact.

Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Congresses
Educational accountability -- United States -- Congresses

Standardized Tests: Assessing the Price of Failure

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Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2003

"This ABC News program seeks to understand the ramifications of high-stakes advancement and exit exams-- tests that are being used to measure schools' effectiveness, to allocate funding, and to shape the future of the nation's children."--containe.

Achievement tests -- United States
Educational tests and measurements -- United States

Teaching and Testing: A Conversation with Dr. Madeline Hunter

Memorial Hall ETMC   371.26 Tea  

Los Angeles, CA : IOX Videotape Division, 1989

1 VHS (30 min.)

            Educational tests and measurements

            Grading and marking (Students)

Test Preparation Practices: What's Appropriate and What's Not

Memorial Hall ETMC   371.262 Tes    

Los Angeles, CA : IOX Assessment Associates, 1991 / produced by Supercolossal Pictures Corporation

1 VHS (ca. 20 min.)

Drs. Sarah J. Stanley and W. James Popham discuss how educators prepare students to take achievement tests.

            Teaching

            Teachers -- Training of

            Achievement tests

            Testing in education

            Educational evaluation

Testing, Testing, Testing

Memorial Hall ETMC  370 Mer v.6

New York : Merrow Report ; Learning Matters, Inc., 1997

1 VHS (ca. 57 min.)  + 1 guide

Series: The Merrow Report

Poses 12 provocative questions covering the complex and controversial issues of measuring achievement and intelligence in children.           

            Educational tests and measurements

Tomorrow's Children: Partnership Education in Action

JMU Media Resources DVD 3974

~Connect to video online (JMU users~)

Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2001
1 DVD (35 min.)
Current discussion about education is characterized by politically expedient proposals for more testing and greater accountability. Those who care about our children's future know that these limited measures are more backward than forward looking. This program is a blueprint for K-12 education that envisions a more sustainable, equitable and hopeful future.

Education, Humanistic -- United States
Critical pedagogy -- United States
Affective education -- United States
Educational change -- United States

Windows on Learning: A Framework for Making Decisions

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.6403    

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, c1997

1 VHS (17 min.)  

Introduction to methods of documenting young children's work using examples from an early childhood program at the Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education Center in Peoria, Ill. 

            Child development -- Documentation     

            Early childhood education -- Documentatio

            Portfolios in education

            Project method in teaching

            School reports