Education Dept. Examining Rise in Students Excluded From NAEP
Federal statisticians are reviewing scores from a 1998 national reading assessment to see if some states improved their standing because they excluded higher proportions of students with disabilities and limited English skills than they did in earlier tests.
States that registered some of the largest gains on the 4th grade test also increased the rate at which they removed students from the testing sample because of their disabilities or their inability to understand English.
A preliminary review of procedures found that states carefully followed the rules established for the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress testing, according to Pascal D. Forgione Jr., the federal commissioner of education statistics. The next step will be to calculate whether the exclusion patterns boosted or...
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