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Direct linkHaynes, Mariana – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2015
Noting that 60 percent of both fourth and eighth graders currently struggle with reading, this report urges the U.S. Congress to focus on students' literacy development from early childhood through grade twelve as it works to rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Download full textRudner, Lawrence M.; And Others – 1995
Fit statistics provide a direct measure of assessment accuracy by analyzing the fit of measurement models to an individual's (or group's) response pattern. Students that lose interest during the assessment, for example, will miss exercises that are within their abilities. Such students will respond correctly to some more difficult items and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment, Goodness of Fit, Measurement Techniques
Hedges, Larry V.; Vevea, Jack L. – 1997
This study investigates the amount of uncertainty added to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) estimates by equating error under both ideal and less than ideal circumstances. Data from past administrations are used to guide simulations of various equating designs and error due to equating is estimated empirically. The design…
Descriptors: Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Error of Measurement
Abedi, Jamal; Lord, Carol; Kim, Christy; Miyoshi, Judy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2001
This publication reports the results of a research study on the feasibility and validity of various accommodations in the context of mathematics assessment. The study compared limited English proficiency (LEP) and non-LEP students' scores on 20 science items under three different conditions: standard National Assessment for Educational Progress…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness, Examiners
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1979
The 168 items selected for administration to 7,905 17-year olds in 1976-77, were developed from existing National Assessment items and from existing sets of life/coping skills. Skills designated as basic included: career development; citizenship; community resource utilization; consumer protection; family management; health maintenance; and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Dossey, John A.; And Others – 1993
In the 1992 mathematics assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), approximately one-third of the questions and about half of the student response time were devoted to questions asking students to construct their own responses. Regular constructed response items required a short answer with a problem solution, while…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12
Levine, Roger; Rathbun, Amy; Selden, Ramsay; Davis, Andrew – 1998
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only accurate and credible indicator of educational performance capable of informing about national trends and state differences in student achievement, serves many different constituencies whose opinions must figure heavily in determining the future directions of the NAEP. To identify,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Educational Research
