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... As part of their evaluation of NAEP, the National Research Council's Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress stressed the need for clear and comprehensible reporting metrics that would simplify the interpretation of results and endorsed the concept of market-basket reporting for NAEP (National Re
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... Department of Education, the National Research Council established the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to examine the feasibility and potential impact of district-level and market-basket reporting practices. Because these two topics are intertwined, the committee is examining them in tandem, focusing first on district-level reporting.
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... Steve Dunbar, a member of the National Research Council's earlier Committee on the Evaluation of National and State Assessments of Educational Progress, served as the discussant. The third panel brought together district and state assessment directors to discuss their interests in district-level results, the types of information district-level NAEP would provide, the ways in which district-level results might be used, factors that would bear on their decisions to partici
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... sat on the final panel. This panel highlighted the technical issues related to sampling and scoring methodologies for district-level reporting and the policy issues related to participation and reporting decisions.
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... Thus, instead of summarizing each panel's discussions separately, we have organized these two chapters around the common issues raised during the workshop. Much of the discussion focused on issues related to comparing results from different districts.
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