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Download full textGinsburg, Alan; Chudowsky, Naomi – National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
This report uses NAEP background data to track time and learning since the mid-1990s in three areas: student absenteeism; classroom instructional time in mathematics, reading, music and the visual arts; and homework time expected by teachers. Key report findings are: (1) Students with higher rates of "monthly absenteeism" score disproportionately…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Alignment (Education)
Bourque, Mary Lyn – National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
A history of the achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) could be documented in different ways. A chronological history might be the obvious approach, but in the author's view, that could miss the most salient aspects of setting student performance standards on an assessment like NAEP. Further, new initiatives…
Descriptors: Achievement, National Competency Tests, Governing Boards, Grade 8
Jago, Carol – National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) frameworks describe the content and skills measured on NAEP assessments as well as the design of the assessment. They provide both the "what" and the "how" for national assessment. Representing the best thinking of thousands of educators, experts, parents, and policymakers, NAEP frameworks…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Academic Achievement, Models, Educational Improvement
National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
The Technical Panel on 12th Grade Preparedness Research, convened by the Governing Board, consists of seven members with expertise in a variety of measurement and policy areas related to preparedness. The purpose of the Panel was to assist the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) in planning research and validity studies that will enable the…
Descriptors: Grade 12, Readiness, Developmental Studies Programs, Research Committees
National Assessment Governing Board, 2007
To gauge the civic knowledge and skills of the nation's 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students, an assessment has been scheduled for 2006 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This assessment will enable NAEP to report on trends in civics achievement from 1998 to 2006. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), NAEP's…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Guidelines, National Competency Tests, Civics
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
