Grading the Nation's Report Card : Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress.

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

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