Research Council Pledges Help in Setting NAEP Levels

Washington

When the National Research Council called the process of setting achievement levels for the nation's report card "fundamentally flawed" in a recent report, it provided only sketchy details on how to make the system better.

"I hope you sense our frustration," Mark D. Musick, the chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, told NRC researchers at the start of the board's quarterly meeting here. Board members want to know exactly what they should do to correct the problems with the National Assessment of...