NAEP Drops Long-Term Writing Data
Much of the data from the nation's longest ongoing assessment of student writing skills is unreliable and will be scrapped, the board that oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress has determined.
The National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for NAEP, voted at its quarterly meeting this month to exclude the results of the 1999 long-term writing assessment from the trend report it is set to release this summer. Results from the tests administered in 1994 and 1996 will be removed from the board's World Wide Web site.
The discovery could also reveal potential problems in other performance-based tests and in state testing programs that require students to write short answers and essays, especially when the results are used to make decisions about individual students or to...
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