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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Stevens, John H. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
This paper describes the development of Board policy on the reporting, release, and dissemination of National Assessment results and other relevant information. Through selected scenarios, it also illustrates the kinds of issues that required action by the Board. These issues have included concerns about the testing and reporting of English…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Governing Boards, Administrative Policy, Information Dissemination
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