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    Technology and Assessment: Thinking Ahead – Proceedings from a Workshop

    Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    The papers in this collection were commissioned by the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) for a workshop held on November 14, 2001, with…

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    The Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment: Summary of a Workshop

    Board on Testing and Assessment,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    To explore the connections between new approaches to science education and new developments in assessment, the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) sponsored a…

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    Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop

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    The routine jobs of yesterday are being replaced by technology and/or shipped off-shore. In their place, job categories that require knowledge management, abstract reasoning, and personal services seem to be…

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    Taking Stock: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Academy of Sciences

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    Reporting Test Results for Students with Disabilities and English-Language Learners: Summary of a Workshop

    Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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    Evaluation of Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress

    Committee on Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

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    Transitions in Work and Learning: Implications for Assessment

    Board on Testing and Assessment,National Research Council

    Considers the role of assessment in facilitating improved labor market transitions and life-long learning of American workers. It addresses the mismatch between skill requirements of high-performance workplaces and skills acquired…

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    Testing English-Language Learners in U.S. Schools: Report and Workshop Summary

    Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment

    The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity was created under the auspices of the National Research Council (NRC), and specifically under the oversight of the Board on Testing and…

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    Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education: A Nation Advancing?

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Board on Science Education,Committee on the Evaluation Framework for Successful K-12 STEM Education

    Following a 2011 report by the National Research Council (NRC) on successful K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Congress asked the National Science Foundation to identify methods…

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    Naep Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting

    Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment

    At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of…

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    High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion and Graduation

    Committee on Appropriate Test Use,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    States that everyone is in favor of ‘high education standards’ and ‘fair testing’ of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean. This book…

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    ICT Fluency and High Schools: A Workshop Summary

    Planning Committee on ICT Fluency and High School Graduation Outcomes,Board on Science Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    ICT Fluency and High Schools: A Workshop Summary

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    Methodological Advances in Cross-national Surveys of Educational Achievement

    Board on International Comparative Studies in Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to evaluate improvement in the quality of the methodologies used in international studies, and to…

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    The Power of Video Technology in International Comparative Research in Education

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Board on International Comparative Studies in Education

    Video technology offers a number of important potential benefits to researchers and policy makers interested in international comparative research. However, a number of practical and methodological issues remain to be…

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    Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment

    Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight’s dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. This title explains how…

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    Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Large-Scale and Classroom Assessment: Workshop Report

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Mathematical Sciences Education Board,Committee on Science Education K-12

    Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external and classroom assessment. This report discusses issues…

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    Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education

    Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education,National Research Council

    In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left…

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    State Assessment Systems: Exploring Best Practices and Innovations: Summary of Two Workshops

    Committee on Best Practices for State Assessment Systems: Improving Assessment While Revisiting Standards,National Research Council

    Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years, and have used the results for many purposes. They…

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    Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

    Committee on the Foundations of Assessment,Board on Testing and Assessment

    Explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. This work presents principles for designing…

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    An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia: Reform in a Changing Landscape

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee for the Five-Year (2009-2013) Summative Evaluation of the District of Columbia Public Schools

    An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia is a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia’s…

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    Successful STEM Education: A Workshop Summary

    Committee on Highly Successful Schools or Programs for K-12 STEM Education,National Research Council

    What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual development, opportunities for future study and work, and choices of career, as…

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    Systems for State Science Assessment

    Committee on Test Design for K-12 Science Achievement,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In response to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), this book explores the ideas and tools that are needed to assess science learning at the state level…

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    Key National Education Indicators: Workshop Summary

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Testing and Assessment,Steering Committee on Workshop on Key National Education Indicators

    The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was. At the…

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    Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests: Phase 1

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment

    In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that would provide reliable information about student…

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    Next Steps for TIMSS: Directions for Secondary Analysis

    Board on International Comparative Studies in Education,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Now that the initial results of The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have been released, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) has turned its attention…

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    Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills

    Board on Testing and Assessment, and Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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    Embedding Questions: The Pursuit of a Common Measure in Uncommon Tests

    Committee on Embedding Common Test Items in State and District Assessments,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment

    Policy makers are caught between two powerful forces in relation to testing in America’s schools. One is increased interest on the part of educators, reinforced by federal requirements, in developing…

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    Understanding Others, Educating Ourselves: Getting More from International Comparative Studies in Education

    Committee on a Framework and Long-term Research Agenda for International Comparative Education Studies,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Since 1988, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) at the (U.S.) National Research Council of the National Academies has engaged in activities designed to increase the rigor…

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    Performance Assessments for Adult Education, Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop

    Committee for the Workshop on Alternatives for Assessing Adult Education and Literacy Programs,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and limited English…

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    Educating One and All: Students with Disabilities and Standards-Based Reform

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Goals 2000 and the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities

    Addresses how to reconcile common learning for all students with individualized education for one - the unique student. This book makes recommendations to states and communities that have adopted standards-based…

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    Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards

    Committee on Developing Assessments of Science Proficiency in K-12

    Develops an approach to science assessment to meet the vision of science education for the future as it has been elaborated in A Framework for K-12 Science Education (Framework) and…

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    Assessing Accomplished Teaching: Advanced-Level Certification Programs

    Committee on Evaluation of Teacher Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards,National Research Council

    In response to a request from the US Congress, the National Research Council developed a framework for evaluating programs that award advanced-level teacher certification and applied that framework in an…

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    Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions

    Steering Committee for the Workshop on Higher Education Admissions,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In 1996, more than 8 million students went through the complicated, stressful, and sometimes bewildering process of applying to colleges and universities in the United States. Much of the nail-biting…

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    Designing a Market Basket for NAEP: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    At the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to examine the feasibility and potential impact of district-level…

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    Understanding Dropouts: Statistics, Strategies, and High-Stakes Testing

    Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity,Board on Testing and Assessment,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    The role played by testing in the nation’s public school system has been increasing steadily-and growing more complicated-for more than 20 years. The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity…

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    Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessments for Young Children

    Well-planned and effective assessment can inform teaching and program improvement, and contribute to better outcomes for children. This book addresses these issues by identifying the important outcomes for children from…

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    Keeping Score for All: The Effects of Inclusion and Accommodation Policies on Large-Scale Educational Assessment

    Committee on Participation of English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities in NAEP and Other Large-Scale Assessments,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    US public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English language learners and students with disabilities. This book considers policies for including students with disabilities and English language learners…

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    Testing Teacher Candidates: The Role of Licensure Tests in Improving Teacher Quality

    Committee on Assessment and Teacher Quality

    The important issue of teaching quality is addressed in this text by focusing upon the appropriateness, technical quality and merits of using teacher licensure tests. It also provides advice on…

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    Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2: Final Report

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2

    In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that could be administered on a voluntary…

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    Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security,National Research Council

    The intelligence community (IC) plays an essential role in the national security of the United States. Decision makers rely on IC analyses and predictions to reduce uncertainty and to provide…

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    Emergent Techniques for Assessment of Visual Performance

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Vision,National Academy of Sciences

    Recent vision research has led to the emergence of new techniques that offer exciting potential for a more complete assessment of vision in clinical, industrial, and military settings. Emergent Techniques…

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    Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

    Committee on Highly Successful Schools or Programs in K-12 STEM Education,National Research Council

    Examines the landscape of K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by considering different school models, highlighting research on effective STEM education practices, and identifying some conditions that promote…

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    Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Nancy Kober,Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from research about how students learn science and engineering shows that teaching…

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    Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests

    Presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. This book also looks at the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It provides an answer to the…

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    Procedures for Testing Color Vision: Report of Working Group 41

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Vision,National Academy of Sciences

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    Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity: Conceptual Framework and Data Needs

    Committee on National Statistics, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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    Statistics on U.S. Immigration: An Assessment of Data Needs for Future Research

    Committee on National Statistics and Committee on Population,National Research Council

    Presenting an examination of the adequacy of US immigration data, this volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social…

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    Measuring Literacy: Performance Levels for Adults

    Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy

    The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is a household survey that evaluates the literacy skills of a sample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older. Through a…

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