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Download full textNational Assessment Governing Board, 2006
This document describes the content and format of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) measurements for reading comprehension of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. According to the framework, NAEP assesses three contexts for reading: reading for literary experience, reading for information, and reading to perform a task). In addition…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Comprehension, National Competency Tests, Grade 12
National Assessment Governing Board, 2006
The first section of this report contains the "Writing Framework for the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress" (NAEP) as adopted by the National Assessment Governing Board. This framework describes the basis for the writing assessment, the types of writing assessed, and the methods for scoring student responses. This second section of…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Achievement, Writing Tests, Audiences
National Assessment Governing Board, 2006
The task of the Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for the the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 12th Grade Assessments in 2009 addresses three policy areas: (1) Conducting assessment at the state level in 12th grade; (2) Reporting on 12th grade student preparedness for college-credit coursework, training for employment and entrance…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
Brophy, Jere; Ames, Carole – National Assessment Governing Board, 2005
This paper draws on theory and research on motivation in education to identify principles that might guide decision making concerning National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments for twelfth graders. It draws on three areas of motivation theory, identifies motivational issues that make twelfth-grade NAEP assessments problematic,…
Descriptors: Testing, Student Motivation, Grade 12, Decision Making
National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
Early in 2003, the National Assessment Governing Board established the National Commission on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 12th Grade Assessment and Reporting, following the recommendation of retiring Governing Board Executive Director Roy Truby. The Governing Board's charge to the Commission was "To review the current…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Student Participation, National Competency Tests, Governing Boards
Bain, Robert B. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
This paper presents a snapshot of world history education to illuminate the challenges that the National Assessment Governing Board faces in creating a National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) world history framework. Using state standards documents, statutes concerning high school graduation, results from the NAEP transcript studies,…
Descriptors: World History, State Standards, Grade 12, History Instruction
Beaton, Albert E. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion of how to measure the educational progress of Students with Disabilities (SD) and English Language Learners (ELL) students who are deemed unable to sit for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment, even with accommodations. As NAEP has become more relevant as a state …
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Second Language Learning, National Competency Tests, Educational Indicators
Abedi, Jamal – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
Research reports major concerns over classification and measurement for students with limited English proficiency (LEP). Poor operational definition of the English language proficiency construct and validity concerns on the existing language proficiency tests are among these issues. Decisions on including LEP students in large-scale assessments…
Descriptors: Limited English Speaking, Achievement Tests, Validity, Classification
Thurlow, Martha L. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
States have taken a variety of approaches in the development of their alternate assessments and the policies and procedures that support them. This has resulted not only in alternate assessments that differ from state to state in their characteristics, but also in variations in the characteristics and percentages of students who are targeted for…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, State Regulation, State Standards, Comparative Analysis
Rivera, Carlene; Collum, Eric – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
This paper reviews 15 research studies that: (1) examined effects of particular accommodations or groups of accommodations on performance: and (2) employed experimental and quasi-experimental research designs that allowed examination of the effect of the accommodation(s) on English Language Learners (ELLs) and non-ELLs. Studies looked at one or…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency, Literature Reviews
Tindal, Gerald; Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
This paper focuses on the use of accommodations by students with disabilities in large-scale assessment programs. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section summarizes the primary issues relevant to including students with disabilities in large-scale testing. The second sections summarizes the research on such participation in the…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Measurement, Mathematics Tests, National Competency Tests
Sireci, Stephen G. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) seeks to include all students in the United States in the sampling frame from which students are selected to participate in the assessment. However, some students with disabilities (SWD) are either unable to take NAEP tests under standard testing conditions or are unable to perform at their…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Validity, National Competency Tests, Reading Tests
Haertel, Edward H. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2003
The paper initially describes the sources of uncertainty in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data and standard errors. As NAEP sample sizes have increased, greater precision has been attained by the program. For this reason, exclusion effects are increasingly important. Two scenarios of revised NAEP results are presented (for New…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Computation, Disabilities, Limited English Speaking
Loomis, Susan Cooper, Ed.; Bourque, Mary Lyn, Ed. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2001
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a survey of American students' knowledge and skills in different subjects at grades 4, 8, and 12. NAEP combines the samples of performances to provide information about the knowledge and skills of students in the nation as a whole, in each participating state, and in different demographic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, National Competency Tests, Grade 4, Grade 8
