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Download full textBeaton, Albert E.; Gonzalez, Eugenio – 1995
This guide to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is designed to help the secondary data analyst use the NAEP and to introduce some of the sophisticated technology used by the NAEP. The NAEP has been gathering information on American students since 1969. It samples populations that consist of all students in U.S. schools, both…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Trends
Page, Ellis Batten – 1982
A review of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which originated 20 years ago, is presented; and the original political, ideological and social science assumptions for the design of NAEP are examined. The report criticizes the founding principle as hampering NAEP's maximum utility and exploratory power. In examining the form of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Principles, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Peer reviewedRock, Donald A.; Nelson, Jennifer – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1992
Several developments growing out of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are reviewed, with a discussion of their extension and application to other projects. These developments include: (1) complex matrix item sampling designs; (2) performance-based items in large-scale assessments; (3) vertical scaling; and (4) innovative…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Rivera, Charlene – 1986
The redesign of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has resulted in improved usefulness of the data set to conduct policy relevant research on Hispanic student achievement. Improvements include changing the procedure for ethnic identification to self-reporting, modifying sample selection, and planning for the conduct of special…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Taylor, Bob L. – 1974
The National Assessment is a plan for a systematic survey of knowledges, skills, understandings, and attitudes. The development of citizenship assessment described in this paper typifies the processes undergone for each subject--art, career and occupational development, citizenship, literature, mathematics, music, reading, science, social studies,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Citizenship, Data Collection
Brown, George H.; Faupel, Elizabeth M. – 1987
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Longitudinal Studies Program (LSP) are major survey projects on educational outcomes performed by the Center for Education Statistics. NAEP is a continuing cross-sectional survey of young Americans' skills, knowledge, and attitudes. The LSP studies follow a sample of students as they…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cross Sectional Studies, Data Collection, Databases
