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Download full textShuster, Kate – Southern Poverty Law Center (NJ1), 2011
The National Assessment of Educational Progress--commonly called "The Nation's Report Card"--tells a dismal story: Only 2% of high school seniors in 2010 could answer a simple question about the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. And it's no surprise. Across the country, state educational…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, United States History, Court Litigation, Knowledge Level
Crooks, Terry – 1996
A recently developed model of validation (T. J. Crooks, M. T. Kane, and A. S. Cohen, 1996) is briefly outlined. It conceptualizes assessment as divided into a chain of eight linked stages: (1) administration; (2) scoring; (3) aggregation; (4) generalization; (5) extrapolation; (6) evaluation; (7) decision; and (8) impact. The model is then used to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Models
Peer reviewedWainer, Howard – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1990
It is suggested that some of the technology applied to state Scholastic Aptitude Test scores to measure states' educational performance (particularly use of a truncated Gaussian model) may make it possible to adjust National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores to make inferences about state educational progress possible. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Models
Taylor, Bob L. – 1974
The model used by National Assessment for data gathering and reporting on the Citizenship area is described, and the potential uses of the model for state and local assessment, curriculum development, and accountability purposes are discussed. The study was carried out using papers and reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Citizenship, Curriculum Development
Development of a 50-State System of Education Indicators: Issues of Design, Implementation, and Use.
Blank, Rolf K. – 1989
The process of developing a state education indicators system using the model proposed by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is described. The CCSSO model has three components--indicators of educational outcomes; indicators of school policies and practices; and indicators of contextual factors, or state characteristics. The goal is…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Indicators, Evaluation Criteria
Wu, Grace; Royal, Mark; McLaughlin, Don – 1997
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics offers the most comprehensive picture available of elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The value of the SASS would be even greater if information on districts and schools could be related directly to student outcomes. A relatively inexpensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Models
Johnson, Eugene – 1989
The 1990 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) will mark the first time that state-level comparisons will be possible with NAEP data. The 1990 data will contain, as a trial component, state-level assessments of eighth graders in mathematics. Mathematics and reading comparisons for fourth graders will be added in 1992. Statistical…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Demography, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Taylor, Bob L. – 1973
The National Assessment, a census-like study to collect information concerning the educational attainment of Americans, is being adapted in many states with the results of the adaptations being used for decision making by state agencies or by teachers and administrators. The characteristics of the adaptations follow patterns related to this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis
