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Book Synopsis Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2 by : National Research Council
Download or read book Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-17 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that could be administered on a voluntary basis by states and school districts beginning in spring 1999. The principal purpose of the Voluntary National Tests (VNT) is to provide parents and teachers with systematic and reliable information about the verbal and quantitative skills that students have achieved at two key points in their educational careers. The U.S. Department of Education anticipated that this information would serve as a catalyst for continued school improvement, by focusing parental and community attention on achievement and by providing an additional tool to hold school systems accountable for their students' performance in relation to nationwide standards. Shortly after initial development work on the VNT, Congress transferred responsibility for VNT policies, direction, and guidelines from the department to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB, the governing body for the National Assessment of Educational Progress). Test development activities were to continue, but Congress prohibited pilot and field testing and operational use of the VNT pending further consideration. At the same time, Congress called on the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the VNT development activities. Since the evaluation began, the NRC has issued three reports on VNT development: an interim and final report on the first year's work and an interim report earlier on this second year's work. This final report includes the findings and recommendations from the interim report, modified by new information and analysis, and presents our overall conclusions and recommendations regarding the VNT.
Book Synopsis Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests by : National Research Council
Download or read book Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-08-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that would provide reliable information about student performance at two key points in their educational careers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Voluntary National Tests (VNT) would create a catalyst for continued school improvement by focusing parental and community-wide attention on achievement and would become new tools to hold school systems accountable for their students' performance. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) has responsibility for development of the VNT. Congress recognized that a testing program of the scale and magnitude of the VNT initiative raises many important technical questions and requires quality control throughout development and implementation. In P.L. 105-78, Congress called on the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate a series of technical issues pertaining to the validity of test items, the validity of proposed links between the VNT and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plans for the accommodation and inclusion of students with disabilities and English-language learners, plans for reporting test information to parents and the public, and potential uses of the tests. This report covers phase 1 of the evaluation (November 1997-July 1998) and focuses on three principal issues: test specifications and frameworks; preliminary evidence of the quality of test items; and plans for the pilot and field test studies, for inclusion and accommodation, and for reporting VNT results.
Author :Board on Testing and Assessment Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :9780309076968 Total Pages :70 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (769 download)
Book Synopsis Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests by : Board on Testing and Assessment
Download or read book Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests written by Board on Testing and Assessment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that would provide reliable information about student performance at two key points in their educational careers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Voluntary National Tests (VNT) would create a catalyst for continued school improvement by focusing parental and community-wide attention on achievement and would become new tools to hold school systems accountable for their students' performance. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) has responsibility for development of the VNT. Congress recognized that a testing program of the scale and magnitude of the VNT initiative raises many important technical questions and requires quality control throughout development and implementation. In P.L. 105-78, Congress called on the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate a series of technical issues pertaining to the validity of test items, the validity of proposed links between the VNT and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plans for the accommodation and inclusion of students with disabilities and English-language learners, plans for reporting test information to parents and the public, and potential uses of the tests. This report covers phase 1 of the evaluation (November 1997-July 1998) and focuses on three principal issues: test specifications and frameworks; preliminary evidence of the quality of test items; and plans for the pilot and field test studies, for inclusion and accommodation, and for reporting VNT results.
Author :National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2 Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages : pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (76 download)
Book Synopsis Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2 by : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2
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Book Synopsis Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests by : National Research Council
Download or read book Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-08-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that would provide reliable information about student performance at two key points in their educational careers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Voluntary National Tests (VNT) would create a catalyst for continued school improvement by focusing parental and community-wide attention on achievement and would become new tools to hold school systems accountable for their students' performance. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) has responsibility for development of the VNT. Congress recognized that a testing program of the scale and magnitude of the VNT initiative raises many important technical questions and requires quality control throughout development and implementation. In P.L. 105-78, Congress called on the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate a series of technical issues pertaining to the validity of test items, the validity of proposed links between the VNT and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plans for the accommodation and inclusion of students with disabilities and English-language learners, plans for reporting test information to parents and the public, and potential uses of the tests. This report covers phase 1 of the evaluation (November 1997-July 1998) and focuses on three principal issues: test specifications and frameworks; preliminary evidence of the quality of test items; and plans for the pilot and field test studies, for inclusion and accommodation, and for reporting VNT results.
Book Synopsis National Assessment Governing Board and Voluntary National Tests by : Michael Guerra
Download or read book National Assessment Governing Board and Voluntary National Tests written by Michael Guerra and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the National Assessment Governing Board marks its 20th anniversary, it looks back at its stewardship of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) with understandable pride. NAEP existed for 20 years before the Board was established to provide an independent governance structure for the assessment. During its first two decades, NAEP tested only national and regional samples of students. Its reports were generally considered technically excellent. But while they may have been groundbreaking in the assessment field, they were little noticed and played virtually no role in shaping educational policy or practice. NAEP received little political heat in exchange for casting modest educational light--a tacit trade making NAEP non-controversial and inconsequential. For the past 20 years, the Board has been second-guessed often, but never criticized for politically motivated decisions. The Governing Board's political purity explains why the Board was eventually given the job of developing the Voluntary National Tests (VNT). This paper takes a look at the history of the National Assessment Governing Board and the Voluntary National Tests. Appendices include: (1) Archived Information for Voluntary National Tests; (2) Sec. 447. Prohibition on Federally Sponsored Testing; and (3) Tables about Draft Scenarios for the Proposed Voluntary National Test and (4) Implementation and Other Issues.
Book Synopsis Uncommon Measures by : National Research Council
Download or read book Uncommon Measures written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-12-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union Address. Proponents of Voluntary National Tests argue that there is no widely understood, challenging benchmark of individual student performance in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics, thus the need for a new test. Opponents argue that a statistical linkage among tests already used by states and districts might provide the sort of comparability called for by the president's proposal. Public Law 105-78 requested that the National Research Council study whether an equivalency scale could be developed that would allow test scores from existing commercial tests and state assessments to be compared with each other and with the National Assessment of Education Progress. In this book, the committee reviewed research literature on the statistical and technical aspects of creating valid links between tests and how the content, use, and purposes of education testing in the United States influences the quality and meaning of those links. The book summarizes relevant prior linkage studies and presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. It also looks at the unique characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Uncommon Measures provides an answer to the question posed by Congress in Public Law 105-78, suggests criteria for evaluating the quality of linkages, and calls for further research to determine the level of precision needed to make inferences about linked tests. In arriving at its conclusions, the committee acknowledged that ultimately policymakers and educators must take responsibility for determining the degree of imprecision they are willing to tolerate in testing and linking. This book provides science-based information with which to make those decisions.
Book Synopsis Embedding Questions by : National Research Council
Download or read book Embedding Questions written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy makers are caught between two powerful forces in relation to testing in America's schools. One is increased interest on the part of educators, reinforced by federal requirements, in developing tests that accurately reflect local educational standards and goals. The other is a strong push to gather information about the performance of students and schools relative to national and international standards and norms. The difficulty of achieving these two goals simultaneously is exacerbated by both the long-standing American tradition of local control of education and the growing public sentiment that students already take enough tests. Finding a solution to this dilemma has been the focus of numerous debates surrounding the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union address. It was also the topic of a congressionally mandated 1998 National Research Council report (Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests), and was touched upon in a U.S. General Accounting Office report (Student Testing: Issues Related to Voluntary National Mathematics and Reading Tests). More recently, Congress asked the National Research Council to determine the technical feasibility, validity, and reliability of embedding test items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress or other tests in state and district assessments in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics for the purpose of developing a valid measure of student achievement within states and districts and in terms of national performance standards or scales. This report is the response to that congressional mandate.
Book Synopsis High Stakes by : National Research Council
Download or read book High Stakes written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-01-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is in favor of "high education standards" and "fair testing" of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean. High Stakes looks at how testing affects critical decisions for American students. As more and more tests are introduced into the country's schools, it becomes increasingly important to know how those tests are usedâ€"and misusedâ€"in assessing children's performance and achievements. High Stakes focuses on how testing is used in schools to make decisions about tracking and placement, promotion and retention, and awarding or withholding high school diplomas. This book sorts out the controversies that emerge when a test score can open or close gates on a student's educational pathway. The expert panel: Proposes how to judge the appropriateness of a test. Explores how to make tests reliable, valid, and fair. Puts forward strategies and practices to promote proper test use. Recommends how decisionmakers in education shouldâ€"and should notâ€"use test results. The book discusses common misuses of testing, their political and social context, what happens when test issues are taken to court, special student populations, social promotion, and more. High Stakes will be of interest to anyone concerned about the long-term implications for individual students of picking up that Number 2 pencil: policymakers, education administrators, test designers, teachers, and parents.
Author :United States. Department of Education. Advisory Committee on Testing in Chapter 1 Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :88 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Reinforcing the Promise, Reforming the Paradigm by : United States. Department of Education. Advisory Committee on Testing in Chapter 1
Download or read book Reinforcing the Promise, Reforming the Paradigm written by United States. Department of Education. Advisory Committee on Testing in Chapter 1 and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of National Testing by : Larry James Eklund
Download or read book The Politics of National Testing written by Larry James Eklund and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Overview of Testing/standards and Assessments in the States by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Download or read book Overview of Testing/standards and Assessments in the States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :156 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Reauthorization of the National Assessment of Educational Progress and National Assessment Governing Board by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families
Download or read book Reauthorization of the National Assessment of Educational Progress and National Assessment Governing Board written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hearing was held on the re-authorization of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). Mary R. Blanton, Vice Chair of the NAGB, spoke about its mission and plans for design changes under the re-authorization. She also outlined the role of the NAGB in overseeing the voluntary national test and discussed state-based competency measures. Michael F. Ward, North Carolina Superintendent of Schools, represented the Council of Chief State School Officers as he spoke on the importance of the NAEP and the NAGB. As a representative of commercial test publishers, Larry Snowhite of Riverside addressed several key issues regarding the re-authorization of the NAEP. Martha Schwartz, representative of a grass-roots organization focusing on mathematics education, urged the inclusion of content-based learning standards with a reliable test to match the standards. Christopher Klicka, Executive Director of the Home School Legal Defense Association, expressed concerns that expansion of the roles of the NAEP and NAGB would lead to increased nationalization of education standards and testing. Ambrosio E. Rodriguez , of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, also testified about the importance of high standards. Nine appendixes contain the written statements of these witnesses and remarks from two congressmen. (SLD)
Book Synopsis Science Framework for the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress by :
Download or read book Science Framework for the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :54 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (327 download)
Book Synopsis Prohibition on Federally Sponsored National Testing by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Download or read book Prohibition on Federally Sponsored National Testing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Examination of the Factors Affecting State and District Participation in the Voluntary National Test in 4th-Grade Reading by :
Download or read book An Examination of the Factors Affecting State and District Participation in the Voluntary National Test in 4th-Grade Reading written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :194 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Authorization of the National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, and National Assessment Governing Board by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families
Download or read book Authorization of the National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, and National Assessment Governing Board written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
