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10 Program Management, Planning, Support, and Oversight
Pages 87-92

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From page 87...
... The planning functions related to innovation often involve some research and development, which are included with the overall management costs. Program management, planning, support, and oversight includes the functions played by NAGB and NCES staff, by NAGB members, by the many participants in NAEP stakeholder and expert advisory groups, and by many Alliance contractors.
From page 88...
... In the NAEP contract summaries provided by NCES, these con tracts are identified as program management support or support contracts, with estimated annual average costs of $6.2 million and $37.0 million, respectively.4 2 As a legislatively established independent entity within the Department of Education, NAGB's annual appropriation is uniquely set up as separate line item within the IES budget. The appropriation does not segregate salaries and expenses from all other costs.
From page 89...
... Overall, the panel roughly estimates the cost of program management, planning, support, and oversight for NAEP from these first two types of costs -- federal staff and support contracts -- is about $50.3 million or about 28.7 percent of the total budget for NAEP. Related costs in the non-support contracts might add substantially more.
From page 90...
... Although this panel is not constituted to conduct a thorough evaluation of the organizational structures that give rise to such costs for program management, planning, support, and oversight, it is clear that the challenge of NAEP's costs cannot be addressed by looking only at the activities that directly relate to developing, administering, and reporting on the assessments. RECOMMENDATION 10-1: The National Assessment Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics should commis sion an independent audit of the program management and decision making processes and costs in the NAEP program, with a charge and sufficient access to review the program's costs in detail.
From page 91...
... RECOMMENDATION 10-2: The National Center for Education Sta tistics should increase the visibility and coherence of NAEP's research activities to help NAEP's stakeholders, as well as other assessment programs, understand the innovations the program is investigating and the lessons it is learning. The NAEP research program should have an identifiable budget and program of activities.


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