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Download full textBraun, Henry I.; Mislevy, Robert J. – US Department of Education, 2004
Psychologist Andrea diSessa coined the term "phenomenological primitives", or p-prims, to talk about nonexperts' reasoning about physical situations. P-prims are primitive in the sense that they stand without significant explanatory substructure or explanation. Examples are "Heavy objects fall faster than light objects" and "Continuing force is…
Descriptors: Test Theory, Testing, Evaluation Methods, Scores
US Department of Education, 2007
The "Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998" requires that the Secretary provide the appropriate committees of Congress copies of annual reports received by the department from each eligible agency that receives funds under the Act. Congress has made "accountability for results" a central focus of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Technical Education, Incentive Grants
O'Neil, Harold F.; Abedi, Jamal; Lee, Charlotte; Miyoshi, Judy; Mastergeorge, Ann – US Department of Education, 2004
Recent information on international assessments (e.g., the Third International Mathematics and Science Study) indicates that 12th-grade students in the United States are doing extremely poorly on such assessments compared with their peers in other countries. These poor results are usually attributed to cognitive factors such as students' …
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Grade 12, High School Students
Lemke, Mariann; Sen, Anindita; Pahlke, Erin; Partelow, Lisette; Miller, David; Williams, Trevor; Kastberg, David; Jocelyn, Leslie – US Department of Education, 2004
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a system of international assessments that measures 15-year-olds? capabilities in reading literacy, mathematics literacy, and science literacy every 3 years. PISA was first implemented in 2000 and is carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Literacy, Problem Solving, Academic Achievement
