Mitchell, Karen J. <br/><br/>
Grading the Nation's Report Card :  Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (296 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780309524834 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB3051 -- .G66686 1999eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370/.973