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Peer reviewedJohnson, George H. – Educational Leadership, 1972
Describes the current status of national educational assessment and the types of data now available from the assessment activities. (AN) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description (Historical Background).
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation, Relevance (Education)
Womer, Frank B.; Mastie, Marjorie M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
Descriptors: Accountability, Citizenship, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
Tyler, Ralph W. – Nat Elem Princ, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Download full textSheehan, Kathleen M.; And Others – 1993
This paper introduces a modification to the Rule Space diagnostic classification procedure to allow for processing of response vectors that contain missing data. Rule Space is an approach to diagnostic classification that involves characterizing examinees' performances in terms of an underlying cognitive model of generalized problem-solving…
Descriptors: Classification, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Knowledge Level
Harnisch, Delwyn L.; Linn, Robert L. – 1981
Techniques to identify the degree to which a response pattern is unusual and the pattern's relationship to examinee background are presented. Sato's caution index and modified caution index use clusters of items for comparisons of observed performance outcomes and do not require the use of item response theory. Correlation between the indices was…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Diagnosis, Error Patterns, Item Analysis
Sebring, Penny A.; Boruch, Robert F. – 1982
Getting assessment results used is no easy task. This paper examines the findings of a recent study on the uses of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and suggests implications for increasing use of state and local assessment results. The NAEP study, conducted at Northwestern University, generated evidence that assessment results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Educational Assessment, Educational Diagnosis
Sticht, Thomas G. – 1987
This paper explores some of the issues involved in developing an index of functional literacy that can serve diagnostic purposes. In 1985, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett outlined principles for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), including a principle calling for NAEP to "develop an index of functional literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Brown, Rexford G. – 1973
This section of the 1970-1971 National Assessment of Educational Progress presents summary data for the responses to literature assessment. Data is presented in graph and tabular form and discussed in detail for the educational attainments of nine year olds, thirteen year olds, seventeen year olds, and adults (ages 26-35). The data is also…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, English Instruction
Easton, Stanley E. – 1977
Performance of rural 13-year-olds on the 1971-1972 social studies assessment by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were reviewed in terms of three major exercise themes. Performance on skill exercises revealed rural strengths in source selection and human affairs insights, but weaknesses in reading maps and graphs. Fewer than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Current Events, Economics
