Evaluation Of Redesigning The National Assessment Of Educational Progress

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309055871

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Evaluation of "Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress" by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309062855

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Grading the Nation's Report Card by National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress Pdf

Since the late 1960s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)â€"the nation's report cardâ€"has been the only continuing measure of student achievement in key subject areas. Increasingly, educators and policymakers have expected NAEP to serve as a lever for education reform and many other purposes beyond its original role. Grading the Nation's Report Card examines ways NAEP can be strengthened to provide more informative portrayals of student achievement and the school and system factors that influence it. The committee offers specific recommendations and strategies for improving NAEP's effectiveness and utility, including: Linking achievement data to other education indicators. Streamlining data collection and other aspects of its design. Including students with disabilities and English-language learners. Revamping the process by which achievement levels are set. The book explores how to improve NAEP framework documentsâ€"which identify knowledge and skills to be assessedâ€"with a clearer eye toward the inferences that will be drawn from the results. What should the nation expect from NAEP? What should NAEP do to meet these expectations? This book provides a blueprint for a new paradigm, important to education policymakers, professors, and students, as well as school administrators and teachers, and education advocates.

Author : Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309524988

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Uncommon Measures by Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council Pdf

The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union Address. Proponents of Voluntary National Tests argue that there is no widely understood, challenging benchmark of individual student performance in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics, thus the need for a new test. Opponents argue that a statistical linkage among tests already used by states and districts might provide the sort of comparability called for by the president's proposal. Public Law 105-78 requested that the National Research Council study whether an equivalency scale could be developed that would allow test scores from existing commercial tests and state assessments to be compared with each other and with the National Assessment of Education Progress. In this book, the committee reviewed research literature on the statistical and technical aspects of creating valid links between tests and how the content, use, and purposes of education testing in the United States influences the quality and meaning of those links. The book summarizes relevant prior linkage studies and presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. It also looks at the unique characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Uncommon Measures provides an answer to the question posed by Congress in Public Law 105-78, suggests criteria for evaluating the quality of linkages, and calls for further research to determine the level of precision needed to make inferences about linked tests. In arriving at its conclusions, the committee acknowledged that ultimately policymakers and educators must take responsibility for determining the degree of imprecision they are willing to tolerate in testing and linking. This book provides science-based information with which to make those decisions.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309061773

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Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309065467

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The Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment Pdf

To explore the connections between new approaches to science education and new developments in assessment, the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) sponsored a two-day conference on February 22 and 23, 1997. Participants included BOTA members, other measurement experts, and educators and policymakers concerned with science education reform. The conference encouraged the exchange of ideas between those with measurement expertise and those with creative approaches to instruction and assessment.

Author : Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309524834

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Grading the Nation's Report Card by Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council Pdf

Since the late 1960s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)--the nation's report card--has been the only continuing measure of student achievement in key subject areas. Increasingly, educators and policymakers have expected NAEP to serve as a lever for education reform and many other purposes beyond its original role. Grading the Nation's Report Card examines ways NAEP can be strengthened to provide more informative portrayals of student achievement and the school and system factors that influence it. The committee offers specific recommendations and strategies for improving NAEP's effectiveness and utility, including: Linking achievement data to other education indicators. Streamlining data collection and other aspects of its design. Including students with disabilities and English-language learners. Revamping the process by which achievement levels are set. The book explores how to improve NAEP framework documents--which identify knowledge and skills to be assessed--with a clearer eye toward the inferences that will be drawn from the results. What should the nation expect from NAEP? What should NAEP do to meet these expectations? This book provides a blueprint for a new paradigm, important to education policymakers, professors, and students, as well as school administrators and teachers, and education advocates.

Author : Gregory J. Cizek
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0080488897

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Handbook of Educational Policy by Gregory J. Cizek Pdf

The Handbook of Educational Policy provides a comprehensive overview of policy questions in education reform at local, state, and national levels. The book raises controversial questions, such as who really benefits from educational reform, and investigates issues of accountability, assessment, educational fads, technology in education, and other matters of educational policy. The book explores not only what education is, but what it can be and should be, providing a scholarly analysis of policy decisions as well as practical recommendations for parents, teachers, and policy-makers. Key Features * Provides informed discussion based on scholarly research * Contains practical recommendations for parents, educators, and policy-makers * Includes representation from local, state, and national levels * Considers comparisons of United States practices to reforms abroad * Addresses current issues and implications for the futures

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309172325

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Grading the Nation's Report Card by National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress Pdf

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card, has chronicled students' academic achievement in America for over a quarter of a century. It has been a valued source of information about students' performance, providing the best available trend data on the academic achievement of elementary, middle, and secondary school students in key subject areas. NAEP's prominence and the important need for stable and accurate measures of academic achievement call for evaluation of the program and an analysis of the extent to which its results are reasonable, valid, and informative to the public. This volume of papers considers the use and application of NAEP. It provides technical background to the recently published book, Grading the Nation's Report Card: Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress (NRC, 1999), with papers on four key topics: NAEP's assessment development, content validity, design and use, and more broadly, the design of education indicator systems.

Author : National Research Council,Board on Testing and Assessment,Center for Education,Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309183161

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NAEP Reporting Practices by National Research Council,Board on Testing and Assessment,Center for Education,Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices Pdf

At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of implementing these reporting practices. The committee developed study questions designed to address issues surrounding district-level and market-basket reporting.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000025257182

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Evaluation of Title I, Education for the Disadvantaged Programs by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Education. Office of the Under Secretary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020628009

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Biennial Evaluation Report by United States. Department of Education. Office of the Under Secretary Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000052066900

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000047031845

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Authorization of the National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, and National Assessment Governing Board by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-26
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UIUC:30112059132925

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. Cecil Smith,Janet K. Sheehan-Holt
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 9781428926547

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Evaluation of the 1992 NALS Background Survey Questionnaire by M. Cecil Smith,Janet K. Sheehan-Holt Pdf

A study focused on researchers' use of the English-Language Background Questionnaire (EBQ) portion of the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the results of which were released in 1993. Data were gathered by surveying NALS data users about how they have used the EBQ data, their perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of the EBQ, and their recommendations for changes to the EBQ. A content analysis was also conducted of published research papers that have involved analyses of the EBQ data to determine how the data were used in these research analyses. The study also drew upon recommendations garnered by a series of focus groups conducted by the American Institutes for Research in 1998. These sources were integrated with the study's own analysis of the NALS data. The following changes to the EBQ for future adult literacy assessments were recommended: expand the questions pertaining to educational experiences; expand the section on social and political participation or move the current items to other areas and delete this section; add an item on voter registration; acquire more detailed information regarding work history, wages, and parents' occupations; expand the section pertaining to literacy practices; and gather information on technological literacy practices. (Appendixes include 34 references; instruments; and studies examined for content review.) (YLB)