Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All 50 States Are above the National Average.

Cannell, John Jacob

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Publication Date: 1988

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Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All 50 States Are above the National Average.

Cannell, John Jacob

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v7 n2 p5-9 Sum 1988

A Friends for Education (FFE) survey revealed that no state is below the norm at the elementary school level on six nationally normed commercially available achievement tests. Tests use a norm group from the past for comparison, but FFE suspects that inaccurate initial norms and teaching the test may cause high scores. (SLD)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, National Norms, National Surveys, Norm Referenced Tests, Scores, State Surveys, Test Results, Testing Problems

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