James W. Pellegrino, Lee R. Jones, and Karen J. Mitchell, Editors; Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress, National Research Council

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• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 1 Creating a Coordinated System of Education Indicators; 5 2 Streamlining the Design of NAEP; 6 3 Enhancing the Participation and Meaningful Assessment of all Students in NAEP; 7 4 Frameworks and the Assessment Development Process: Providing More Informative Portrayals of Student Performance; 8 5 Setting Reasonable and Useful Performance Standards; 9 6 Strategies for Implementing the Committee's Recommendations for Transforming NAEP; 10 References; 11 Appendix A: Enhancing the Assessment of Reading; 12 Appendix B: Research About Student Learning as a Basis for Developing Assessment Materials: An Example from Science; 13 Appendix C: A Sample Family of Items Based on Number Patterns at Grade 4; 14 Appendix D: Exploring New Models for Achievement-Level Setting; 15 Appendix E: Biographical Sketches; 16 Index

James W. Pellegrino, Lee R. Jones, and Karen J. Mitchell, Editors; Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress, National Research Council

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• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 1 Creating a Coordinated System of Education Indicators; 5 2 Streamlining the Design of NAEP; 6 3 Enhancing the Participation and Meaningful Assessment of all Students in NAEP; 7 4 Frameworks and the Assessment Development Process: Providing More Informative Portrayals of Student Performance; 8 5 Setting Reasonable and Useful Performance Standards; 9 6 Strategies for Implementing the Committee's Recommendations for Transforming NAEP; 10 References; 11 Appendix A: Enhancing the Assessment of Reading; 12 Appendix B: Research About Student Learning as a Basis for Developing Assessment Materials: An Example from Science; 13 Appendix C: A Sample Family of Items Based on Number Patterns at Grade 4; 14 Appendix D: Exploring New Models for Achievement-Level Setting; 15 Appendix E: Biographical Sketches; 16 Index

James W. Pellegrino, Lee R. Jones, and Karen J. Mitchell, Editors; Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress, National Research Council

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• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 1 Creating a Coordinated System of Education Indicators; 5 2 Streamlining the Design of NAEP; 6 3 Enhancing the Participation and Meaningful Assessment of all Students in NAEP; 7 4 Frameworks and the Assessment Development Process: Providing More Informative Portrayals of Student Performance; 8 5 Setting Reasonable and Useful Performance Standards; 9 6 Strategies for Implementing the Committee's Recommendations for Transforming NAEP; 10 References; 11 Appendix A: Enhancing the Assessment of Reading; 12 Appendix B: Research About Student Learning as a Basis for Developing Assessment Materials: An Example from Science; 13 Appendix C: A Sample Family of Items Based on Number Patterns at Grade 4; 14 Appendix D: Exploring New Models for Achievement-Level Setting; 15 Appendix E: Biographical Sketches; 16 Index