Describes the functions and responsibilities of the Education Commission of the States as well as their educational contributions. (RK) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description.

National results for writing, one of the three subject areas assessed during the first year of data collection by National Assessment, are presented in this volume. National results for the other two subjects, science and citizenship, are presented in separate volumes. The purpose of this project is to explore whether an assessment of educational…

Defines the history, role, and methods of the NAEP in carrying out educational assessment in the United States. (RK) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description (Operating Procedures).

A Bill (S. 2034) with a short title of the "National Education Report Card Act of 1990," was introduced in the Senate by Senators Bingaman, Mitchell, Kennedy, and Harkin. The contents of this Act include the following sections: findings, establishment, membership and appointments, functions, interim council report, annual report card,…

The U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Relations reviewed the National Academic Advisory Report Card Act of 1990 (Senate Bill 3095) to authorize the creation of a National Report Card to be published annually to measure the educational achievement of both students and schools and to establish a National Council on Educational Goals. The…

Fundamental to a realistic assessment of educational quality is an assessment of United States education statistics and information-gathering efforts. This hearing focused on the identification of information needed and steps the Congress needs to take to make education information available on a timely basis so that policy decisions can be made.…

This booklet examines national and state educational reform in the 1990s, noting the ways in which performance assessment is being presented as a mechanism of reform. Three reform initiatives are examined: national education goals, standards, and reform legislation. In conjunction with these reform movements, new methods of assessment are being…

This handbook describes the procedures used to develop, administer, and analyze the results of the 1978-79 art assessment of 9-year-olds, and 17-year-olds by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The primary purpose of the handbook is to provide detailed procedural information for people interested in replicating the assessment…

National Assessment, a systematic survey of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, provides educators and the public with information on student achievement. The data-gathering model for the Assessment has yielded differences of various groups' performances in the area of political knowledge. These results seem to imply that the academic approach to…

The paper describes social studies skills of students age 9-adult as assessed by the 1971-2 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Project. NAEP organized skill exercise items around two subthemes: (1) obtaining information, including raising questions, seeking answers, identifying sources of information, and using standard reference…