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PAPERBACK price:$26.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Grading the Nation's Report Card:Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2:Final Report Other Related Titles Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests: Phase 1 (1999) Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix A: Workshop on Item and Test Specifications for VNT." Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests: Phase 1. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999. Please select a format: Page 55   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendices Page 55 Front Matter (R1-R12) Executive Summary (1-4) 1 The Proposed Voluntary National Tests and Their Evaluation (5-11) 2 Test Specifications (12-16) 3 Item Development and Review (17-34) 4 VNT Pilot and Field Test Plans (35-44) 5 Inclusion and Accommodation (45-47) 6 Reporting (48-51) References (52-54) Appendix A: Workshop on Item and Test Specifications for VNT (55-58) Appendix B: Workshop to Review VNT Pilot and Field Test Plans (59-59) Appendix C: Workshop on VNT Item Development (60-61) Appendix D: Source Documents (62-62) Appendix E: Descriptions of Achievement Levels for Basic, Proficient, and Advanced (63-65) Appendix F: Revised Item Development and Review Schedule for VNT (66-69) Appendix G: Observations of Cognitive Labs and Bias Reviews (70-71) Appendix H: Biographical Sketches (72-73)

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--> Appendix A Workshop on Item and Test Specifications for VNT December 5–6, 1997 Panelists and Invited Participants Joan Auchter, GED Testing Service Stephen Dunbar, University of Iowa Jeremy Finn, Temple University Bert Green, John Hopkins University John Guthrie, University of Maryland Andy Hartman, The National Institute for Literacy Bill Honig, San Francisco State University Eugene Johnson, Boston College Sylvia Johnson, Howard University Patricia Kenney, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh Jeremy Kilpatrick, University of Georgia Stephen Klein, RAND Mary Lindquist, Columbia State University Peter Pashley, Law School Admission Council Jack Stenner, Metametrics David Thissen, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Other Participants Donald Burdick, Metametrics Mary Crovo, National Assessment Governing Board Richard Durán, University of California, Santa Barbara (BOTA) Christopher Edley, Jr., Harvard Law School (BOTA) Steve Ferrara, American Institutes for Research Ray Fields, National Assessment Governing Board

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--> Tom Fisher, National Assessment Governing Board Adina Kole, U.S. Department of Education Mark Kutner, American Institutes for Research Archie LaPointe, American Institutes for Research Sharon Lewis, Council of the Great City Schools Robert Linn, University of Colorado (BOTA) David Mandel, MPR Associates Wayne Martin, Council of Chief State School Officers John Olson, American Institutes for Research Audrey Pendleton, U.S. Department of Education Gary Phillips, U.S. Department of Education Terry Salinger, American Institutes for Research Sharif Shakrani, National Assessment Governing Board Catherine Snow, Harvard University (BOTA) Larry Snowhite, McA Enterprises Holly Spurlock, U.S. Department of Education Richard Stombres, Staff of Representative William Goodling Kent Talbert, Staff of Representative William Goodling William Taylor, Attorney at Law, Washington, D.C. (BOTA) William Trent, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BOTA) Roy Truby, National Assessment Governing Board Jennifer Vranek, ACHIEVE Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania (BOTA)

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