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Early Childhood Assessment
The assessment of young childrens development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school …
Educating One and All
In the movement toward standards-based education, an important question stands out: How will this reform affect the 10% of school-aged children who have disabilities and thus …
Embedding Questions
Policy makers are caught between two powerful forces in relation to testing in America's schools. One is increased interest on the part of educators, reinforced by federal …
Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The …
NAEP Reporting Practices
At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, …
Toxicity Testing for Assessment of Environmental Agents
Toxicity testing in laboratory animals provides much of the information used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess the hazards and risks associated with exposure …
Key National Education Indicators
The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was. At the turn of …
Grading the Nation's Report Card
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card, has chronicled students' academic achievement in America for over a quarter of a century. …
Tests and Teaching Quality
Improving the quality of teaching in elementary and secondary schools is now high on the nation's educational policy agenda. Policy makers at the state and federal levels have …
Grading the Nation's Report Card
Since the late 1960s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)the nation's report cardhas been the only continuing measure of student achievement in key subject …
Keeping Score for All
U.S. public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English languagelearners and students with disabilities. This book considers policies for including studentswith …
Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement
In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a fourdecade period, to …