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Download full textHopstock, Paul J.; Pelczar, Marisa P. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This technical report and user's guide is designed to provide researchers with an overview of the design and implementation of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), as well as with information on how to access the PISA 2009 data. This information is meant to supplement that presented in Organization for Economic Cooperation…
Descriptors: Parent Materials, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
National Assessment Governing Board, 2007
To gauge the civic knowledge and skills of the nation's 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students, an assessment has been scheduled for 2006 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This assessment will enable NAEP to report on trends in civics achievement from 1998 to 2006. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), NAEP's…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Guidelines, National Competency Tests, Civics
Direct linkFirestone, William A.; Monfils, Lora; Schorr, Roberta Y. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
As testing becomes more prevalent as a policy tool in the Anglo-Saxon world, debates continue as to whether it supports central reforms of instruction or leads to a kind of 'teaching to the test' that invalidates results and undermines more challenging instruction. This paper reports on a three-year study of mathematics testing of nine-year-olds…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Student Evaluation
Phillips, Eileen; Crespo, Sandra – 1995
Communication in the mathematics classroom is currently viewed as an integral part of mathematics instruction. This paper explores the usefulness of math penpal letters as a means of increasing the quality of written communication in mathematics. The focus of this study is the letter writing exchanges between a class of 4th-grade students (n=28)…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Kurtz, Beth E.; Borkowski, John G. – 1985
Examined were relationships between metamemory and strategic behavior in 130 impulsive and reflective children in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Of these, 77 had been tested 3 years earlier on multiple metamemory and memory tasks. At pretraining, children were assessed on metamemory, cognitive tempo, summarization skills, and teacher ratings of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Beatty, Alexandra S.; And Others – 1996
This book describes results from the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment in U.S. history, conducted at grades 4, 8, and 12. Included in this report card are the results of students' achievement at each grade and within various subgroups of the general population. The report discusses the relationships between student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Based Assessment, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
White, Sheida; Akhtar, Sahar – Focus on NAEP, 1995
This newsletter introduces the 1994 NAEP U.S. history assessment, which tested a representative sample of 22,000 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students across the United States. This issue presents a context for understanding the U.S. history assessment. The newsletter is divided into the following sections: (1) "The NAEP U.S. History…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
