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... To help inform this debate, Congress asked the National Research Council (NRC) to study the feasibility of developing a scale to compare, or link, scores from existing commercial anc3 state tests to each other anc3 to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
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... For example, clusters of states are looking at possible linkages to stimulate greater comparability between scores on the state tests anc3 between scores on the state tests anc3 NAEP. These situations require linking tests that JO not meet the strict requirements for equating and must take into account an array of complicated and complicating factors such as definition of educational goals, uses of tests, anc3 varied emphasis on the multiplicity of skills anc3 knowledge that comprise mas' tery in different subject areas.
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... However, the committee has no position on the overall merits of the VNT, anc3 in making conclusions about the feasibility of linking existing tests we JO not intend to suggest either that the nation should or should not have national tests. Neither policy decision follows inevitably from our basic conclusions about linkage anc3 equivalency.
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... 2. Reporting individual student scores from the full array of state and commercial achievement tests on the NAEP scale and transform ing individual scores on these various tests and assessments into the NAEP achievement levels are not feasible.
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... Unless the test to be linked to NAEP is very similar to NAEP in content, format, and uses, the resulting linkage is likely to be unstable and potentially misleading. (The committee notes that it is theoretically possible to develop an expanclec3 version of NAEP that could be used in conducting linkage experiments, which would make it possible to establish a basis for reporting achievement test scores in terms of the NAEP achievement levels.
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