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Download full textJohnson, Carol; Vanneman, Alan – NAEPfacts, 2001
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Civics Assessment measured student knowledge, intellectual and participatory skills, and civic dispositions at the fourth grade level. This publication describes fourth graders' performance based on 30 questions from the fourth-grade assessment. Twenty-three of the thirty questions were…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Grade 4
Johnson, Carol; Vanneman, Alan – NAEPfacts, 2001
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Civics Assessment measured students' knowledge, their intellectual and participatory skills, and their civic dispositions at the 12th-grade level. This publication describes 12th graders performance on 38 questions from the 12th-grade assessment. Thirty-one of the thirty-eight questions…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Grade 12
Johnson, Carol; Vanneman, Alan – NAEPfacts, 2001
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Civics Assessment measured student knowledge, intellectual and participatory skills, and civic dispositions at the eighth grade level. This publication describes eighth graders performance based on 37 questions from the eighth-grade assessment. Thirty of the thirty-seven questions were…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Grade 8
Center for the Study of Community Colleges Bulletin, 1986
A study was conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to assess student knowledge in the liberal arts in four large urban community college districts (i.e., Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, and St. Louis). The study used both a student characteristics survey and the General Academic Assessment (GAA), a content test designed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Community Colleges, General Education
Vanneman, Alan; Shuler, Scott; Sandene, Brent – Focus on NAEP, 1998
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has developed a new generation of assessment tasks for evaluating student achievement in music. Using paper-and-pencil and performance formats, these tasks draw on the musical traditions of many cultures and historical periods. This report summarizes results from the 1997 assessment of eighth…
Descriptors: Competence, Educational Assessment, Educational Background, Elementary Secondary Education
Vanneman, Alan; Goodwin, Mac Arthur – Focus on NAEP, 1998
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has developed a new generation of assessment tasks for assessing student achievement in the visual arts. Using paper-and-pencil and performance formats, these tasks draw on the concepts, skills, and processes used to create and understand visual images from a variety of world cultures and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Competence, Educational Assessment, Educational Background
Vanneman, Alan – NAEP Facts, 1996
This document summarizes the results of a national survey that tested 4th, 8th, and 12th graders' ability to analyze geographic data in a variety of formats; explain complex geographic phenomena and processes; and show knowledge of relationships between human and geographic events. The survey tested three content dimensions: space and place,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation
White, Sheida; Vanneman, Alan – Focus on NAEP, 1997
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1997 Arts Education Assessment represents the first comprehensive approach on a national level to the development of methods for assessing student performance in dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts. The Assessment reflects the conviction that the arts are essential for every child's…
Descriptors: Art Education, Competence, Dance, Drama
Bergert, Susan, Ed. – LCCE Insider, 2000
These two newsletter issues are designed for users of the Council for Exceptional Children's Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) curriculum. The newsletter's goal is to inform practitioners of curriculum implementation ideas and transition issues and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Featured articles discuss how one district used…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Design, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
EFF Voice, 2001
This newsletter reports on the activities of Equipped for the Future (EFF), which is a National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) initiative that develops content standards to ensure that every adult can gain the knowledge and skills needed to fulfill real-world responsibilities as workers, parents, and citizens. A message from the NIFL…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Development
