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10 Use of Voluntary National Test Scores for Tracking, Promotion, or Graduation Decisions
10 Use of Voluntary National Test Scores for Tracking, Promotion, or Graduation Decisions
Pages 238-246
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The VNT proposal has evolved in many ways since its birth in January 1997, but here we focus on major features of the initial plan. Achievement tests in English reacling at the 4th gracie level anc3 in mathematics at the 8th gracie level woulc3 be offered to states, school districts, anc3 localities for administration each spring.
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would be free to use the tests as they wish, just as test users are now free to use commercial tests for purposes other than those recom' mended by their developers and publishers. The freedom of test users has been reinforced by the action of the Congress in placing control of the VNT project with the National Assessment Governing Board, the same independent commission that oversees NAEP.
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1Shepard and her colleagues used comparisons of the percentage of students achieving scores of 3 or higher on advanced placement examinations (the score level frequently used to award college credit) and the percentage of students obtaining scores of 600 or higher on the SAT mathematics test or 550 or higher on the SAT verbal test (levels on the 1992 SAT scales that correspond to the 86th percentile of test takers on the verbal test and the 82nd percentile on the mathematics test)
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The proposed voluntary national tests may substantially increase the importance of the evaluative function of the NAEP achievement levels because it is planned that the national tests would be linked to NAEP and have results reported in terms of the achievement levels. If the previously mentioned math test used to assign students to beginning or advanced math classes were the 8th grade voluntary national test in math, then outscores on the test might be used to justify the
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In fact, the plan is for several equivalent forms of each test to be cievelopec3 in each year in order to provide comparable test results in the next year. But no extra forms are planned for release or use in "seconc3-chance" administrations.
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As noted above, however, no extra forms are planned for release and use in "seconcl~chance" aclmin' istrations. The lack of alternative forms would make the VNTs inappro' priate for use as a graduation test.
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1995 Implications for standard setting of the National Academy of Education evaluation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress achievement levels. In Proceedings of the Joint Cor~ferer~ce ore Standard Setting for Large-Scale Assessmer~ts of the National Assessment Goverrrir~g Board arid the National Center for Education Statistics (Vol.
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Part 111 Ensuring Appropriate Uses of Tests
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Page 246 PART III ENSURING APPROPRIATE USES OF TESTS
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