Guiding Principles and Suggested Studies for Determining When the Introduction of a New Assessment Framework Necessitates a Break in Trend in NAEP

Nellhaus, Jeffrey; Behuniak, Peter; Stancavage, Frances B.

doi:10.1037/e537792012-001

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“…As already described, these competing aims came to a head in the early 1990s when new assessments were started under the "main" NAEP umbrella, in addition to the math and reading NAEP-LTT assessments that continue today. Designers of the assessments have been careful to preserve the comparability of scale scores across years and states (Nellhaus, Behuniak, and Stancavage 2009). Changes to the NAEP in terms of test format and student inclusion since 1990 have been cross-validated to ensure preservation of test score trends using so-called trend or bridge studies, with occasional breaks in the trends (Beaton and Zwick 1990;haertel 2016; hedges and Vevea 1997; hedges and Bandeira de Mello 2013).…”

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Assessment for Monitoring of Education Systems: The U.S. Example

Fahle¹,

Shear²,

Shores³

2019

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Standardized tests are regularly used as education system monitoring tools to compare the average performance of students living in different states or belonging to different subgroups (e.g., defined by race/ethnicity, sex, or parental income) and to track their progress over time. This article describes some uses and design features of tests in system monitoring contexts. We provide the example of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only large-scale system monitoring test in the United States. The availability of NAEP data, in turn, has facilitated the construction of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), a publicly available database that can be used to describe patterns of achievement for nearly all school districts in the United States. Here, we discuss progress in and challenges to the use of standardized tests as system monitoring tools.

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confidence: 99%