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NAEP shows promise as 'preparedness' yardstick
- 11-23-2010
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By Catherine Gewertz/Education Week
Initial studies have delivered early but promising indications that it might be possible to use the exam known as “the nation’s report card” for a brand-new purpose: to gauge students’ preparedness for college or work. At its quarterly meeting here last week, the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released results of studies comparing the content covered in the 12th grade assessment with the content in the SAT and ACT college-entrance exams; in the Accuplacer, a course-placement test used by colleges; and in WorkKeys, a job-skills test used by employers. The studies found some differences in the tests’ content, but they also found “considerable overlap.” The overlap is enough to make researchers optimistic, NAGB officials said, about proceeding with the rest of the work needed to make a full determination of whether it would be appropriate to say that certain ranges of NAEP scores correlate with preparedness for work or higher education. They cautioned, however, that the content analyses alone do not provide enough information to enable that. (more…)
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