NAEP Redesign Seeks To Curb Costs, Improve Usefulness
The National Assessment Governing Board last month backed changes that seek to improve NAEP's cost-effectiveness and usefulness and preserved most of the policy decisions it had approved last spring for the assessment's redesign.
The board hopes to make NAEP more streamlined without sacrificing reliability, validity, and quality of data. The assessment will continue to use performance standards--basic, proficient, and advanced--and a mix of multiple-choice and open-response test items in assessing the academic achievement of U.S. students. (Please see Board Endorses Draft Plan for NAEP Overhaul," May 22, 1996.)
NAEP, which has been given since 1969, is the only ongoing, nationally representative assessment of what a sample of students in grades 4, 8, and 12 know and can do in a variety of academic subjects. It is mandated by Congress and run by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. The governing board...
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