Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2: Final Report by Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests Year 2

Author:Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education : Policy, Reviews and Evaluations. Education : Testing, Assessments and Standards
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1999-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

The committee’s interim report (National Research Council, 1999c) focused on the first three topics. Since that time, a report was issued by NAGB’s Linkage Feasibility Team (LFT) on issues associated with linking VNT scores to the NAEP scale and the NAEP achievement-level cutpoints on that scale. The committee reviewed this report and discussed it with NAGB staff and one of the LFT report authors at its July 1999 meeting. Committee members also observed the discussions of AIR’s VNT Technical Advisory Committee at its meeting in June.

This final report includes an expanded discussion of the first three topics as well as the committee’s findings and recommendations on issues associated with linking VNT scores to the NAEP scale. The committee reviewed the following documents:

• - Linking the Voluntary National Tests with NAEP and TIMSS: Design and Analysis Plans (American Institutes for Research, 1998g)

• - Designs and Item Calibration Plan for the 1999 Pilot Test (American Institutes for Research, 1998f)

• - Designs and Item Calibration Plans for Including NAEP Item Blocks in the 1999 Pilot Test of the VNT (American Institutes for Research, 1998e)

• - Proposed Plan for Calculator Use (American Institutes for Research, 1998j)

• - Field Test Plans for the VNT: Design and Equating Issues (American Institutes for Research, 1999c)

• - Score Reporting, Draft (American Institutes for Research, 1998l)

• - Test Utilization, Draft (American Institutes for Research, 1998n)

• - Score Reporting, Scoring Examinees, and Technical Specifications: How Should These Be Influenced by the Purposes and Intended Uses of the VNT? (American Institutes for Research, 1999g)

• - Selected Item Response Theory Scoring Options for Estimating Trait Values (American Institutes for Research, 1999h)

• - Final Report of the Study Group Investigating the Feasibility of Linking Scores on the Proposed Voluntary National Tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Cizek et al., 1999)

• - Revised Plans for Linking the Voluntary National Test with NAEP (Johnson, 1999a)

• - Using Social Moderation to Link the VNT to NAEP (Paulsen, J1999)

• - VNT: Forms Assembly Procedures and Technical Specifications for the VNTs (AIR, for contract #RJ97153001, 1999l)

• - An Evaluation of the VNT Pilot Test Design (Reckase, 1999)

• - VNT Pilot Design Features (Johnson, 1999b)

• - Evaluation of VNT Pilot Test Design (Hanson, 1999)

• - Synthesis Paper on VNT Pilot Test Design Features (Ercikan, 1999)

• - Technical Specifications, Revisions as of June 18, 1999 (American Institute for Research, 1999i)

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