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1 Introduction
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... history and government and to provide an overall assessment of that validity, reliability, and fairness before the nationwide implementation of the tests in 2006. The committee will review the ongoing design decisions of the project with USCIS, exarnrne pertinent data about the possible options, discuss technical issues with USCIS as they arise during development, provide guidance drawn from the related research literature, and consider the impact of constraints and trade-offs on the appropriateness of the ' More background about Me naturalization test redesign is provided on Me USCIS web page: http://uscis.gov/ graphics/services/natz/NatzTesting.pdf.
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... The committee's final report will respond to the second part of the charge by providing an assessment of the processes used to develop and evaluate the new testing program before its nationwide implementation. COMMITTEE'S APPROACH In making the recommendations contained m this report, the committee seeks to provide the formative guidance requested m the charge without becoming directly involved m specific decisions related to the test redesign in a way that would impair our objectivity about those decisions.
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... In short, the committee is concerned that the redesign program currently lacks the necessary advisory structure for making important decisions and a coherent, overarching research and test development design that will lead to a scientifically and politically defensible testing program. Our recommendations are intended to provide helpful guidance that, if acted on m the near term, will increase the eventual validity, reliability, and fairness of the new tests, as well as public support for them.
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