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ERIC Number: EJ370238
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Understanding Achievement and Acting to Produce It: Some Recommendations for the NAEP.
Resnick, Daniel P.; Resnick, Lauren B.
Phi Delta Kappan, v69 n8 p576-79 Apr 1988
Reviews the 25-year record of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), highlighting criticisms of test design and validity, sampling techniques, standards, and usefulness of results. Provides the newly organized NAEP with guidelines for selecting input variables and specifies nine variables to be studied. A sidebar describes NAEP's redesign. (MLH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement, Sampling, Scores, Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Test Interpretation, Test Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Educational Testing Service; National Assessment of Educational Progress