A Pragmatic Future for NAEP Containing Costs and Updating Technologies (2022) / Chapter Skim
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CHARGE TO THE PANEL To build on NAEP's past successes and ensure its continued leadership and viability into the future, IES asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) to consider innovations that have the potential to reduce the program's costs while maintaining or enhancing its technical 5
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The BOX 1-1 Statement of Task The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad hoc panel to consider several innovations that could substantially reduce the cost structure of NAEP while maintaining its technical quality and value in in forming the public about education progress. The panel will review the major cost components of NAEP and related assessment programs and consider the follow ing possible changes to the NAEP program: (1)
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In this context, the promise offered by digital approaches that could reengineer the process of assessment design, development, administration, and reporting is highly attractive. At the same time, however, the program's leaders are skeptical about past promises of technological benefits that went unfulfilled: this skepticism led to the important caveat in the IES request that the National Academies consider a pragmatic vision for innovations in the NAEP program.
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The panel received documents provided by NCES, as well as the agency's responses to a series of questions that arose in the course of the panel's work.4 The NCES materials and responses to the panel questions provided a basis for considering the general promise of the various innovations, including those used in assessment programs other than NAEP. In developing a way to consider the potential innovations that might be relevant, the panel considered the overall goals of the NAEP program, the sequence of topics addressed during assessment development and validation, and the types of innovations that are being used successfully in other large-scale assessment programs.
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It is obvious that it is possible to save money on assessments by eliminating them. Assessments could be eliminated by either reducing the frequency of specific NAEP assessments5 or eliminating an assessment when a specific NAEP assessment overlaps with a specific international assessment.6 The panel decided to defer to the political processes that have led to a commitment to provide assessment results for a specific range of domains, grade levels, and frequencies.
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Chapter 4 addresses item development and the opportunities for potential cost savings, including the possibilities for automated or more structured item generation. Chapters 5 and 6 address the substantial costs related to the administration of NAEP, with Chapter 5 addressing the program's plans to administer NAEP using local proctors and equipment and Chapter 6 offering other potential innovations to reduce administration costs.
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