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DESIGNING A MARKET BASKET FOR NAEP

SUMMARY OF A WORKSHOP

Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting

Pasquale J. DeVito and Judith A. Koenig, editors

Board on Testing and Assessment

National Research Council

 

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Washington, D.C.

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

The study was supported by the U.S. Department of Education under contract number E95083001. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.

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Suggested citation: National Research Council (2000) Designing a Market Basket for NAEP: Summary of a Workshop. Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting. Pasquale J. DeVito and Judith A. Koenig, editors. Board on Testing and Assessment. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Engineering

Institute of Medicine

National Research Council

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. William A. Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering.

The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Kenneth I. Shine is president of the Institute of Medicine.

The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts and Dr. William A. Wulf are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the National Research Council.

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COMMITTEE ON NAEP REPORTING PRACTICES: INVESTIGATING DISTRICT-LEVEL AND MARKET-BASKET REPORTING

PASQUALE DEVITO (Chair),

Office of Assessment, Rhode Island Department of Education

LINDA BRYANT,

Westwood Elementary School, Pittsburgh

C. MELODY CARSWELL,

Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky

MARYELLEN DONAHUE,

Planning, Research & Development, and District Test Coordination, Boston Public Schools

LOU FABRIZIO,

Division of Accountability Services, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

LEANN GAMACHE,

Assessment and Evaluation, Education Services Center, Littleton Public Schools, Littleton, Colorado

DOUGLAS HERRMANN,

Department of Psychology, Indiana State University

AUDREY QUALLS,

Iowa Testing Program, Iowa City, Iowa

MARK RECKASE,

Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University

DUANE STEFFEY,

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, San Diego State University

JUDITH KOENIG, Study Director

KAREN MITCHELL, Senior Program Officer

KAELI KNOWLES, Program Officer

DOROTHY MAJEWSKI, Senior Project Assistant

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BOARD ON TESTING AND ASSESSMENT

ROBERT L. LINN (Chair),

School of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder

CARL F. KAESTLE (Vice Chair),

Department of Education, Brown University

RICHARD C. ATKINSON, President,

University of California

CHRISTOPHER F. EDLEY, JR.,

Harvard Law School

RONALD FERGUSON,

John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy, Harvard University

MILTON D. HAKEL,

Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University

ROBERT M. HAUSER,

Institute for Research on Poverty, Center for Demography, University of Wisconsin, Madison

PAUL W. HOLLAND,

Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

RICHARD M. JAEGER,

School of Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

DANIEL M. KORETZ,

The Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Education Policy, Boston College

RICHARD J. LIGHT,

Graduate School of Education and John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

LORRAINE McDONNELL,

Departments of Political Science and Education, University of California, Santa Barbara

BARBARA MEANS,

SRI International, Menlo Park, California

ANDREW C. PORTER,

Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison

LORETTA A. SHEPARD,

School of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder

CATHERINE E. SNOW,

Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

WILLIAM L. TAYLOR,

Attorney at Law, Washington, D.C.

WILLIAM T. TRENT, Associate Chancellor,

University of Illinois, Champaign

GUADALUPE M. VALDES,

School of Education, Stanford University

GUADALUPE M. VALDES,

School of Education, Stanford University

VICKI VANDAVEER,

The Vandaveer Group, Inc., Houston, Texas

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LAURESS L. WISE,

Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, Virginia

KENNETH I. WOLPIN,

Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

MICHAEL J. FEUER, Director

VIOLA C. HOREK, Administrative Associate

LISA D. ALSTON, Administrative Assistant

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Acknowledgments

At the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to examine the feasibility and potential impact of district-level and market-basket reporting practices. As part of its charge, the committee sponsored a workshop in February 2000 to gather information on issues related to market-basket reporting for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). A great many people contributed to the success of this workshop, which brought together representatives from state and local assessment offices, experts in educational measurement, and others familiar with the issues related to market-basket reporting for NAEP. The committee would like to thank the panelists and discussants for their contributions to a lively and productive workshop. The full participant list appears in Appendix A.

Staff from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), under the direction of Gary Phillips, acting commissioner, and staff from the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), under the leadership of Roy Truby, executive director, were valuable sources of information. Peggy Carr, Patricia Dabbs, Arnold Goldstein, Steve Gorman, Andrew Kolstad, and Holly Spurlock of NCES and Roy Truby, Mary Lyn Bourque, Sharif Shakrani, Lawrence Feinberg, and Raymond Fields of NAGB provided the committee with important background information on numerous occasions. Papers prepared for the workshop by Andrew Kolstad and Roy Truby were particularly helpful to the committee.

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The committee also is grateful to John Mazzeo and Robert Mislevy, both from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), for the information they supplied as part of their papers for the workshop and their responses to our many questions after the workshop.

Special thanks are due to a number of individuals at the National Research Council who provided guidance and assistance at many stages during the organization of the workshop and the preparation of this report. We thank Michael Feuer, director of the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA), for his expert guidance and leadership of this project. We are indebted to BOTA staff officer, Karen Mitchell, for her assistance in planning the workshop and writing this report; she was a principal source of expertise in both the substance and process for this workshop. We also wish to thank BOTA staff members Patricia Morison and Viola Horek for their assistance with this work. Special thanks go to Dorothy Majewski, who capably managed the operational aspects of the workshop and the production of this report. We thank Eugenia Grohman for her deft guidance of the report through the review process and Christine McShane for her assistance in moving the report through the publication process.

The committee is particularly grateful to NRC project staff, Judith Koenig, study director, and Kaeli Knowles, program officer, for their efforts in putting together the workshop and preparing the manuscript for this report. Judith acted as the coordinator of the activities, while Kaeli Knowles played a prominent role in organizing and running the workshop, in obtaining written materials from workshop speakers, and in assisting with the writing of this report.

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process.

We thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report: Karen Banks, Wake County Schools, Raleigh, NC; Brian Junker, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; Jeffrey M. Nellhaus, Student Assessment, Massachusetts Department of Education; Thanos Patelis, The College Board, New York, NY; Alan Schoenfeld,

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School of Education, University of California, Berkeley; and Mark Wilson, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

Although the individuals listed above provided constructive comments and suggestions, it must be emphasized that responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

Pasquale J. DeVito

Chair

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At the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to examine the feasibility and potential impact of district-level and market-basket reporting practices. As part of its charge, the committee sponsored a workshop in February 2000 to gather information on issues related to market-basket reporting for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).

Designing a Market Basket for NAEP: Summary of a Workshop explores with various stakeholders their interest in and perceptions regarding the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of market-basket reporting for the NAEP. The market-basket concept is based on the idea that a relatively limited set of items can represent some larger construct. The general idea of a NAEP market basket is based on an image of a collection of test questions representative of some larger content domain and an easily understood index to summarize performance on the items.

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