Ed. Dept. Wants More Data From Students Taking NAEP
For the first time ever, the Department of Education wants to piggyback a survey about 12th graders' postsecondary education choices onto the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
The survey would be added to the NAEP tests taken by seniors in 2002, and some of those students would then be polled again two years later. If approved by the assessment's governing board and Congress, the survey would mark a significant departure from longstanding practice in the NAEP program. Currently, the national assessment does not identify individual students or track them over time.
Known as the nation's report card, NAEP is the only ongoing, nationally representative measure of what students know and are able to do in several core academic subjects. It has been given since 1969 to samplings of students in grades...
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