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Peer reviewedHambleton, Ronald K.; Brennan, Robert L.; Brown, William; Dodd, Barbara; Forsyth, Robert A.; Mehrens, William A.; Nellhaus, Jeff; Reckase, Mark; Rindone, Douglas; van der Linden, Wim J.; Zwick, Rebecca – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2000
Responds to a negative evaluation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and asserts that a review of the evidence for the NAEP performance standards indicates that there is support for the current approach to NAEP standard setting. Considers the scholarship of the NAS evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Standard Setting (Scoring)
Peer reviewedPellegrino, James W. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2000
Takes issue with support of the standard setting process of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) advanced by critics of the evaluation of the standard setting process by the National Academy of Sciences and asserts that the achievement level descriptions developed for the NAEP no longer adhere to policy statements defining the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Standard Setting (Scoring)
Download full textCrocker, Linda; Zieky, Michael – 1995
The National Assessment Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics sponsored a Joint Conference on Standard Setting for Large-Scale Assessments to provide a forum for technical and policy issues relevant to setting standards at local, state, and national levels. Volume I contains an executive summary of the conference and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Chelimsky, Eleanor – 1992
This letter is an interim response to the October 7, 1991 request from the Committee on Education and Labor and the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the House of Representatives asking for a review of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Data Analysis, Government Role
Peer reviewedJones, Richard M.; Hunter, Darryl M. – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1996
Issues related to the establishment of formal standards for student achievement on large-scale assessments are discussed, and two approaches to standard setting that have been used in Saskatchewan (Canada) are described. In spite of the general success of these programs, numerous issues to consider in future evaluations are raised. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Bottoms, Gene; Makin, Richard – 1998
This document, which draws heavily on lessons learned during 11 years of the Southern Regional Education Board's High Schools That Work initiative, is intended to help state leaders review their existing system for assessing accountability in vocational education or plan such a system. The document begins with a discussion of the purpose of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Accountability
