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Subject(s)

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)—History [Browse]
• Educational evaluation—United States—Case studies [Browse]
• Educational accountability—United States—Case studies [Browse]
• Competency-based educational tests—United States—Case studies [Browse]

Related name

• Olkin, Ingram [Browse]
• American Educational Research Association [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Case studies [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-510) and index.

Contents

• PART I: EVOLUTION AND PERSPECTIVES
• The genesis of NAEP / Irvin J. Lehmann
• The age of innocence / Frederic A. Mosher
• Interviews
• Technical giants of national assessment / Clay Allison
• NAEP and the U.S. Office of Education, 1971-1974 / Dorothy M. Gilford
• A new design for a new era / Archie Lapointe
• Making NAEP state-by-state / Ramsay Selden
• A history of the national assessment governing board / Mary Lyn Bourque
• A view from the NCES / Emerson Elliott, Gary Phillips
• The influence of external evaluations / Robert L. Linn
• NAEP from three different perspectives / Wayne Martin
• What NAEP really could do / Frederic A. Mosher
• PART II: DEVELOPING ASSESSMENT MATERIALS
• Assessing citizenship / Vincent Campbell, Daryl Nichols
• Assessing writing and mathematics / Ina V.S. Mullis
• PART III: SAMPLING AND SCORING
• Survey design issues / James R. Chromy, Alva L. Finkner, Daniel G. Horvitz
• Sampling and field operations at Westat, 1983 to 2001 / Keith Rust
• Emerging technical innovations in NAEP / Albert E. Beaton, Eugene G. Johnson
• PART IV: RECENT CHALLENGES
• Innovations in instrumentation and dissemination / Stephen Lazer.

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ISBN

0873678486

LCCN

2003109696

OCLC

54976696

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