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Bourque, Mary Lyn – National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
A history of the achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) could be documented in different ways. A chronological history might be the obvious approach, but in the author's view, that could miss the most salient aspects of setting student performance standards on an assessment like NAEP. Further, new initiatives…
Descriptors: Achievement, National Competency Tests, Governing Boards, Grade 8
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Anderson, Judith; And Others – ERS Spectrum, 1993
Uses data from National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to examine relationship between student poverty, school poverty, and student achievement. Students in high-poverty public schools, whatever their socioeconomic status, show considerably greater need for special education support than do students in schools with lower percentages of poor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 8, Poverty