NAEP Board Begins Preparing For Changes
Big changes are looming for the test used to gauge the educational health of the nation's schoolchildren. As one observer warned at a meeting here this month, the next few years could be the "riskiest and most dangerous time" in the history of the nearly 30-year-old National Assessment of Educational Progress.
The board that oversees the federally sponsored assessment began grappling with how to prepare for those changes at its May 10-12 meeting. The preparations include plans for a massive field test of new assessment items and procedures that would have to be administered in 2002 to satisfy legislation Congress is now considering.
Events are unfolding so fast that the National Assessment Governing Board, which usually meets quarterly, has scheduled a special meeting on June 28 in Houston, only the second time that has happened in...
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