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EdSurvey: An R Package to Analyze Large-Scale Educational Assessments Data from NCES
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Ting Zhang; Paul Bailey; Yuqi Liao; Emmanuel Sikali – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The EdSurvey package helps users download, explore variables in, extract data from, and run analyses on large-scale assessment data. The analysis functions in EdSurvey account for the use of plausible values for test scores, survey sampling weights, and their associated variance estimator. We describe the capabilities of the package in the context…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Test Validity
Understanding Achievement and Acting to Produce It: Some Recommendations for the NAEP.
Resnick, Daniel P.; Resnick, Lauren B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 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…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement
The 1990 NAEP Trial State Assessment. Data Collection.
Goodison, Jules – 1989
The data collection process is described for a new facet of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)--the state-level assessment of eighth-grade mathematics in 1990 and 1992 to determine the feasibility and validity of state assessments. For this Trial State Assessment, the NAEP will work with a State Coordinator from each of the 41…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Role, Data Collection, Educational Assessment