System and method for linking content standards, curriculum instructions and assessment

摘要

A method of instruction and assessment includes providing in an ordered item booklet containing a set of ordered assessment items arranged by degree of difficulty and one or more cutoffs corresponding to one or more respective performance levels. Achievement of a specified performance level requires the ability to provide a correct response to substantially all of the assessment items having a degree of difficulty below a cut-off corresponding to the specified performance level. A diagnostic pretest, including at least a portion of the items from the ordered item booklet rearranged so that they are not presented in ascending order of difficulty, is administered to a student, and the pretest is scored and the student's score is correlated to a performance level. Using the ordered item booklet the student's skill set associated with the performance level is assessed and the additional skills necessary to achieve a higher performance level are identified. Based on the additional skills identified, an instructional curriculum designed to teach the student the additional skills is developed and implemented.