From _The New York Teacher_, March 4, 1996
    "The Rand Corporation, a Washington think tank, has determined that 
performance assessments rarely cost less than $20 per student, while pen 
and paper tests rarely run more than $1.
    But that doesn't mean performance assessments - which gauge 
students' ability to complete hands-on-tasks - aren't a good investment. 
 Rand social scientist Brian Stecher told "Education Daily" that the 
high caliber of such tests can offset the costs.  In the test he 
studied, students used many hands-on materials, such as a pendulum, 
stopwatch and model car.  Further, such tests can shed light on the 
learning process that multiple choice tests don't.
Chuck Beams
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cbeams@future.dreamscape.com
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