Student assessment is an integral part of the California College Educational System. Ongoing assessment is used to evaluate student learning and permit timely, positive intervention. Testing students has a number of very important advantages:
• Students learn to perform well under the pressure of time and other constraints
• Students develop the ability to focus and to sustain concentration for long periods
• It provides feedback that allows close monitoring and follow-up
Progress monitoring is a set of assessment and evaluation procedures for determining the extent to which students are benefiting from classroom instruction and for monitoring curriculum effectiveness. Progress monitoring is the scientifically based practice of assessing students' academic performance on a regular basis for three purposes:
• To determine whether students are achieving set goals from the instructional programs and curriculum.
• To build more effective programs for students
• To estimate rates of student improvement
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