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Appendix E: Coordination of Strategies for Collecting Data
Pages 206-208

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... The committee therefore recommends that the collection of data for indicator objectives and for other ongoing and planned data collection activities be coordinated to the maximum extent feasible and effective. Indefensible multiplication of surveys or excessive burden on individual respondents would increase the costs of the program and decrease response rates.
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... It is far from certain that they will require separate vehicles. However, coordination with other assessment and data collection activities may depend upon the feasibility of compromise between the parallel surveys and gradual shifting to the new tools.
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From page 208...
... Census Bureau National Science Foundation International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement National Assessment of Educational Progress Elementary and Secondary Integrated Data Systems Linkage to developing teacher evaluation programs, in the R&D phase American Association for the Advancement of Science Mathematical Sciences Education Board National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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