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Education Commission of the States, 2004
Policymakers face an array of challenges in improving how schools prepare students to be active citizens. Not the least of these is the increased pressure schools are facing from highstakes testing and the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act to focus limited resources on improving performance in areas such as reading, math and science.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Change, National Competency Tests
Stedman, Lawrence C. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
During the past 25 years, the country witnessed a dramatic transformation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Actions by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Congress, and the National Assessment Governing Board fundamentally changed NAEP's role in federal educational policy and the nation's schools. Developed in the 1960s…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Educational Testing, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Loomis, Susan Cooper – 2000
This paper describes the feedback included in operational achievement level setting (ALS) procedures for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). It does not describe the feedback form field trials, pilot studies, or other research studies related to the NAEP. The NAEP ALS process includes three rounds of item-by-item ratings, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Civics, Classification
McDevitt, Michael; Kiousis, Spiro – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2006
This report describes how an innovative curriculum promoted the civic development of high school students along with parents by stimulating news media attention and discussion in families. Evidence is based on a three-year evaluation of Kids Voting USA, an interactive, election-based curriculum. Political communication in the home increased the…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Student Participation, Parent Participation
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System, San Diego, CA. – 1992
Data on the status of education for immigrant amnesty applicants in California under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) are summarized. The amnesty applicants fall into two categories: immigrants who can prove continuous U.S. residency before 1982, and "special agricultural workers" who qualify if they worked in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, Civics
Loomis, Susan Cooper; Bay, Luz; Yang, Wen-Ling; Hanick, Patricia L. – 1999
Field trials were conducted to test rating methods and the impact of feedback about consequences for the 1998 achievement levels-setting (ALS) process for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The field trials provided the opportunity to try out different methods similar to those used successfully by others, as well as to try out…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Civics, Elementary Secondary Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1998
This report provides information on student performance at the state, regional, and school system levels on end-of-grade (grades 3-8 reading and mathematics) multiple-choice tests and end-of-course (high school subjects) multiple-choice tests administered in 1997-98 for 117 public school systems and 35 charter schools. Beginning in the 1992-93…
Descriptors: Algebra, Biology, Civics, Educational Assessment
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1998
This document provides information on student performance at the state, regional, and school system levels on end-of-grade multiple choice tests for grades 3 through 8 in reading and mathematics and the end-of-course multiple choice tests administered in high school subjects in 1996-97 as part of the North Carolina Testing Program. The figures and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Biology, Civics
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1993
This report provides important baseline information for school systems in North Carolina working to improve student performance. It describes participation, student characteristics, and achievement for 11 high school courses assessed by the North Carolina End-of-Course Testing Program in 1991-92. Participation of North Carolina students in Algebra…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Advanced Courses, Algebra