Grading the nation's report card : evaluating NAEP and transforming the assessment of educational progress / James W. Pellegrino, Lee R. Jones, and Karen J. Mitchell, editors ; Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress, Board on Testing and Assessment, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.
Description
xiii, 280 p. : ill.

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Notes
"The study was supported by award no. EA95083001 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education"--T.p. verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Front Matter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 Creating a Coordinated System of Education Indicators
  • 2 Streamlining the Design of NAEP
  • 3 Enhancing the Participation and Meaningful Assessment of All Students in NAEP
  • 4 Frameworks and the Assessment Development Process: Providing More Informative Portrayals of Student Performance
  • 5 Setting Reasonable and Useful Performance Standards
  • 6 Strategies for Implementing the Committee's Recommendations for Transforming NAEP
  • References
  • APPENDIX A Enhancing the Assessment of Reading
  • APPENDIX B Research About Student Learning as a Basis for Developing Assessment Materials: An Example from Science
  • APPENDIX C A Sample Family of Items Based on Number Patterns at Grade 4
  • APPENDIX D Exploring New Models for Achievement-Level Setting
  • APPENDIX E Biographical Sketches
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 0-309-17362-0
  • 1-282-08197-7
  • 9786612081972
  • 0-309-52483-0
  • 0-585-02750-1
OCLC
923257402
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