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Direct linkOlson, Lynn – Education Week, 2005
Many people predicted that 2005 would be the year that schools nationwide began feeling the bite of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, as states ratcheted up their performance targets and more schools failed to meet those benchmarks. But such dire predictions are not playing out uniformly across the states. Of the 33 states and the District of…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement, Federal Legislation
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Download full textLutkus, A. D.; Grigg, W.; Dion, G. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report presents trial school-district-level results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics 2003, 2005, and 2007 assessments at grades 4 and 8 for 10 urban public-school districts: Atlanta City School District; Austin Independent School District (ISD); Boston School District; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; City…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Achievement, National Competency Tests, Measures (Individuals)
Lutkus, A.; Grigg, W.; Donahue, P. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The Nation's Report Card[TM] informs the public about the academic achievement of elementary and secondary students in the United States. Report cards communicate the findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a continuing and nationally representative measure of achievement in various subjects over time. The results from…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Achievement, National Competency Tests, Measures (Individuals)
Johnson, Matthew S.; Jenkins, Frank – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
Large-scale educational assessments such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) sample examinees to whom an exam will be administered. In most situations the sampling design is not a simple random sample and must be accounted for in the estimating model. After reviewing the current operational estimation procedure for NAEP, this…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, National Competency Tests, Sampling
Sinharay, Sandip; von Davier, Matthias – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
The reporting methods used in large scale assessments such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) rely on a "latent regression model." The first component of the model consists of a "p"-scale IRT measurement model that defines the response probabilities on a set of cognitive items in "p" scales…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Regression (Statistics), Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics
Sandoval, Pam A. – Colorado Department of Education, 2005
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2005 assessment was administered to a stratified random sample of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-graders at the national level and to a stratified random sample of fourth- and eighth-graders at the state level. The Mathematics Framework for NAEP was revised in 1996 and again in 2005. The new…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Grade 4, Flow Charts, National Competency Tests
Klecker, Beverly M. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper presents a secondary analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) dataset. The study explores differences in the NAEP fourth, eighth, and twelfth grade reading scores by students' gender across the years 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003. The study used the NAEP National Public School data. The statistically…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, National Competency Tests, Gender Differences, Scores
Shaughnessy, Catherine A.; Nelson, Jennifer E.; Norris, Norma A. – 1998
This technical report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1996 State Assessment Program in Mathematics presents fourth- and eighth-grade cross-state results of the NAEP 1996 State Assessment in mathematics. However, no interpretations of the data are included. This report does include the revised results from comparable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1999
This paper presents highlights from the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing assessment, which was given to a national sample representative of all students at grades 4, 8, and 12 and to state samples representative of all students at grade 8 in the 40 participating states and jurisdictions. It begins with questions and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
Jerry, Laura J.; Ballator, Nada – 1999
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Alabama eighth-grade students and compares their overall performance to students in the Southeast region of the United States and the nation (using data from the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
Jerry, Laura J.; Ballator, Nada – 1999
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Arizona eighth-grade students and compares their overall performance to students in the West region of the United States and the nation (using data from the NAEP…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
Jerry, Laura J.; Ballator, Nada – 1999
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Colorado eighth-grade students and compares their overall performance to students in the West region of the United States and the nation (using data from the NAEP…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
Jerry, Laura J.; Ballator, Nada – 1999
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Delaware eighth-grade students and compares their overall performance to students in the Northeast region of the United States and the nation (using data from the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
Jerry, Laura J.; Ballator, Nada – 1999
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Hawaii eighth-grade students and compares their overall performance to students in the West region of the United States and the nation (using data from the NAEP…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
Jerry, Laura J.; Ballator, Nada – 1999
In 1998 for the first time, the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) administered a writing assessment at the state level. This report describes the writing achievement of Kentucky eighth-grade students and compares their overall performance to students in the Southeast region of the United States and the nation (using data from the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, National Competency Tests
