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Standards and Assessments

Student Achievement and School Accountability Conference
October 2002

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Assessment Types

States may include either or both

• Criterion-referenced assessments
• Norm-referenced assessments if --
  • The test is augmented with additional items as necessary to measure accurately the depth and breadth of the academic content standards, and
  • The results are expressed in terms of the State?s academic achievement standards.