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Rethinking the Principles of National Assessment: Towards a More Useful and Higher Quality Knowledge Base for Education.
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Page, Ellis Batten – 1982
A review of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which originated 20 years ago, is presented; and the original political, ideological and social science assumptions for the design of NAEP are examined. The report criticizes the founding principle as hampering NAEP's maximum utility and exploratory power. In examining the form of…
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