Texas Adult Education Standards Project (TAESP)
Report of the Fall 2006 Statewide Field Test

Table of Contents

Introduction

Methods

Demographics

Findings

The Quantitative Data

1. Level-by-level Forms

2. Overall Forms

The Qualitative Data

Fall 2006 Field Fest

1) The Overall Experience of Teaching with Benchmarks

2) The Benefits and Problems of Using Benchmarks

3) Strategies Used to Teach the Benchmarks

4) Ideas for Professional Development

5) Implementation Issues

#1: Expectations of Teachers

#2: Expectations Teachers Place on Students

#3: Lesson Plans and Benchmarks

#4: Record Learning

Suggestions

Benchmarks

Assessment

Implementation

Resources

Comparison between the Two Field Tests

1) The Benefits of Using Benchmarks

2) The Problems of Using Benchmarks

3) Strategies Used to Teach the Benchmarks

4) Ideas for Professional Development

5) Implementation Issues

6) Suggestions

Benchmarks

Alignment/Assessment

Implementation

Resources

Next Steps

Future Directions

Appendix A - Fall 2006 Field Test Evaluations: Quantitative Analysis of the Responses to the Likert-scale Questions in the Level-by-Level Forms

Appendix B - Fall 2006 Field Test Evaluations: Overall Quantitative Analysis

Appendix C - Fall 2006 Conference Calls 1, 2, and 3 Qualitative Findings

Appendix D - Fall 2006 Level-by-Level Forms Qualitative Findings for Open-ended Questions

Appendix E - Fall 2006 Overall Evaluation Form Qualitative Findings for Open-ended Questions