Grading the nation's report card : evaluating NAEP and transforming the assessment of educational progress - Pellegrino, James W.; Jones, Lee R.; Mitchell, Karen Janice; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress (Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999)
Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- 1 Creating a Coordinated System of Education Indicators -- 2 Streamlining the Design of NAEP -- 3 Enhancing the Participation and Meaningful Assessment of All Students in NAEP -- 4 Frameworks and the Assessment Development Process: Providing More Informative Portrayals of Student Performance -- 5 Setting Reasonable and Useful Performance Standards -- 6 Strategies for Implementing the Committee's Recommendations for Transforming NAEP -- References -- APPENDIX A Enhancing the Assessment of Reading -- APPENDIX B Research About Student Learning as a Basis for Developing Assessment Materials: An Example from Science -- APPENDIX C A Sample Family of Items Based on Number Patterns at Grade 4 -- APPENDIX D Exploring New Models for Achievement-Level Setting -- APPENDIX E Biographical Sketches -- Index.
"The study was supported by award no. EA95083001 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education"--Title page verso.
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Keywords: National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project); National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project); Education -- United States -- Evaluation; Educational tests and measurements -- United States; Tests et mesures en éducation -- États-Unis.; EDUCATION -- History; EDUCATION -- Comparative; Education -- Evaluation; Educational tests and measurements; United States; Evaluation; Schulleistung; USA