National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)

Exploring new methods for collecting students' school-based writing : NAEP's 1990 portfolio study by Claudia A Gentile( Book )

3 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This report describes the procedures used to collect, describe, and evaluate school-based writing in a special pilot portfolio study conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to explore portfolios as an alternative method of assessing students' writing achievement. The report has three main purposes: (1) to explore procedures for collecting classroom-based writing from students around the country; (2) to develop methods for describing and classifying the variety of writing submitted; and (3) to create general scoring guides that could be applied across papers written in response to a variety of prompts or activities. The report is divided into four chapters. Following an introduction, the first chapter describes the writing received from the students and information from participating teachers about the activities that generated the writing. Chapter 2 explains the procedures used to evaluate the writing students submitted as well as the results of this evaluation. Chapter 3 compares the results of the NAEP 1990 writing assessment with the analysis of participants' school-based writing samples and summarizes the lessons learned from the portfolio study. Chapter 4 contains a set of sample papers, further illustrating how the evaluative guides can be applied and presenting a sense of the range and depth of writing received from participating students. Appendixes contain information on demographic characteristics and on students' performance by process strategies. (SR)

The 1990 science report card : NAEP's assessment of fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders by Lee R Jones( Book )

3 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 374 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

NAEP ... trends in academic progress( )

in English and held by 365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

1996 science performance standards : achievement results for the nation and the states : findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress by Mary Lyn Bourque( Book )

2 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Literacy, profiles of America's young adults by Irwin S Kirsch( Book )

3 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The U.S. history report card : the achievement of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students in 1988 and trends from 1986 to 1988 in the factual knowledge of high-school juniors by David C Hammack( Book )

7 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Each of the three parts of this report provides a somewhat different perspective on U.S. students' knowledge and understanding of U.S. history. Part 1 summarizes the assessment performance of approximatley 16,0000 fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress U.S. history proficiency scale. Chapter 1 uses this measure to summarize the levels of proficiency displayed by students in the 1988 assessment, offering an overview and examples of their knowledge and understanding. Chapter 2 compares U.S. history proficiency across the grades and across subpopulations defined by race/ethnicity, gender, region, and other characteristics. Part 2 of the report takes a closer look at the assessment results. The chapters in this section provide information not only on the results of the assessment of students in grades 4,8, and 12, but also on trends in the performance of approximately 2,300 eleventh-grade students, based on a special study conducted in 1986 and 1988. Chapter 3 explores students' knowledge of historical periods, chronology, documents, and persons, while chapter 4 summarizes their familiarity with the historical contexts of political and economic life as well as of cultural, social, and family life. Part 3 describes the amount and nature of social studies and U.S. history instruction reported by students who participated in the 1988 assessment and in the special trend assessment. Chapter 5 summarizes the extent of students' instruction in these subjects, and chapter 6 reports on various aspects of this instruction--particularly the topics studied and the prevalence of various instructional activities. Many tables of statistical data are included. (Jb)

Writing( )

in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Writing framework and specifications for the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress by United States( Book )

3 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A closer look at charter schools using hierarchical linear modeling by Henry I Braun( )

3 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mathematics highlights 2003 : results of the first NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment in mathematics( )

2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide