ACCEPTABILITY OF CURRICULUM-BASED ASSESSMENT BY SCHOOL-PSYCHOLOGISTS

School psychologists' acceptability ratings of curriculum-based assess ment and selected standardized measures for evaluating academic perfor mance was examined. From a random sample of members from the 1989-1990 membership list of the National Association of School Psychologists ( NASP), a total of 249 (49.8%) respondents completed the Assessment Rat ing Profile (ARP), a measure designed to evaluate the acceptability of assessment procedures, after reading a description of assessment data collected on a hypothetical student. The results showed that although both sets of assessment measures were found to be rated as acceptable , CBA was significantly and consistently rated as more acceptable than standardized tests. Initial psychometric characteristics of the ARP a re also reported.