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Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kind of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 2002. Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Literacy, Middle Schools
White, Sheida; Vanneman, Alan – NAEPfacts, 2000
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Writing Assessment measured student writing performance at the 4th, 8th, and 12th grades. Scoring guides for three different writing purposes for each grade allowed scorers to objectively evaluate students' work. This issue of NAEPfacts includes an 8th-grade informative writing scoring…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Holistic Evaluation, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2001
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kinds of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the assessment will…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Field Tests, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. – 2000
This manual contains a description of the procedures to be used when administering the Nevada fourth- and eighth-grade Proficiency Examinations in Writing, along with detailed instructions to be read to students. Test administrators should make sure that students understand these instructions thoroughly before the testing session so that students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1989
This report provides information on how Hawaii's students performed on the 1987 and 1988 administrations of the Stanford Writing Assessment (which was adopted as part of Hawaii's Statewide Testing Program). Included in the report are a state summary of the performance of students in grades 3, 6, 8, and 10 and an analysis of the assessment results…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 3, Grade 6
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1998
This booklet presents Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards in the area of English language arts at grades 4, 8, and 12. The content and performance standards represent the best thinking of language educators and interested members of the public. They were drawn from two years of work in Wisconsin's standards development projects, from the Modern…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis. – 2002
This guide to Indiana's academic standards in English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and the Social Studies for Grade 8 students begins with a note to students and another note to parents. The guide spells out what students should know and be able to do in each subject, at each grade level. The guide also lists 10 things parents can do to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 8, Language Arts, Mathematics
