Grading the Nation's Report Card: Research from the Evaluation of NAEP - Softcover

National Research Council; Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education; Board On Testing And Assessment; Committee On The Evaluation Of National And State Assessments Of Educational Progress

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309068444 ISBN 13: 9780309068444

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2000

Synopsis

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card, has chronicled students' academic achievement in America for over a quarter of a century. It has been a valued source of information about students' performance, providing the best available trend data on the academic achievement of elementary, middle, and secondary school students in key subject areas. NAEP's prominence and the important need for stable and accurate measures of academic achievement call for evaluation of the program and an analysis of the extent to which its results are reasonable, valid, and informative to the public. This volume of papers considers the use and application of NAEP. It provides technical background to the recently published book, Grading the Nation's Report Card: Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress (NRC, 1999), with papers on four key topics: NAEP's assessment development, content validity, design and use, and more broadly, the design of education indicator systems.

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About the Author

Nambury S. Raju, James W. Pellegrino, Meryl W. Bertenthal, Karen J. Mitchell, and Lee R. Jones, Editors; Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress, National Research Council

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309068444
• ISBN 13: 9780309068444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Jones Lee R., Mitchell Karen J., Bertenthal Meryl W., Pellegrino James W., Raju Nambury S.