81. "The Nation's Report Card In Peril" By Diane Ravitch administration and security of these testing programs are Those who want states tohave alternatives to governing board (the National assessment Governing Board http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/we/current/ravitch_0501.html

Printable PDF. Home About Hoover Research ... Involvement by Diane Ravitch I n April the nation learned that reading achievement among fourth-grade children has been stagnant since 1992. We also learned that the gap between the most successful and the least successful students was growing and that the poorest readers were performing even worse than they had in 1992. The reason we know these things is because of a federally funded testing program called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which has been testing national samples of American students since 1969 in subjects including reading, writing, mathematics, science, and history. In addition, NAEP has been testing state samples of students and reporting on how their performance has compared from state to state since 1990. NAEP scores provide powerful information that influences state and national policies as well as decisions about public investment in education. Unfortunately, Congress is about to act on legislation that could jeopardize the entire NAEP program. The president proposed that states use a test of their choosing that produces comparable grade-by-grade results; he also recommended that states validate their claims by using the NAEP. At present, about forty states participate in NAEP and bear some of the costs. Bush would have the federal government pay for NAEP to be given to a sample of students in every state.

82. Making Middle Grades Work or district is in one of the 14 states listed above and district must conduct theMiddle Grades assessment, which includes student testing, teacher and http://www.sreb.org/programs/MiddleGrades/MiddleGradesindex.asp

Making Middle Grades Work The Southern Regional Education Board's middle grades initiative is designed to help states, districts and schools look at what they expect, what they teach and how they teach young adolescents to prepare for success in further education. Too many students leave the middle grades unprepared to take advantage of all that high school can offer and unable to be successful in career opportunities after high school. Making Middle Grades Work is a network of schools, districts and states committed to implementing 10 essential elements in a comprehensive improvement framework. The MMGW brochure details the essential elements and other components of the framework. The elements focus on a rigorous and challenging academic core curriculum for all students and on the teaching and learning conditions that support continuous improvement in student achievement. With the support of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, SREB provides member states and schools with technical assistance, publications, assessments and networking services. As school sites identify the help they need to implement the framework, SREB links them to specific professional-development resources. A summer conference enables sites to learn what works with other middle grades and high schools and to plan further actions to improve student achievement. Please join our listserv to receive periodic email messages about MMGW activities.

83. NIH Consensus Statements: 106. Genetic Testing For Cystic Fibrosis 106. Genetic testing for Cystic Fibrosis reflects the panelís assessment of medical knowledge responsible assessment of the optimal practices for genetic testing for cystic http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/106/106_statement.htm

106. Genetic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement Apr 14-16, 1997 This statement was originally published as: Genetic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis. 1997 April 14-16;15(4);1-37. For making bibliographic reference to consensus statement no. 106 in the electronic form displayed here, it is recommended that the following format be used: Genetic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis. NIH Consens Statement Online 1997 Apr 14-16 [cited year, month, day];15(4): 1-37. NIH Consensus Statements are prepared by a nonadvocate, non-Federal panel of experts, based on (1) presentations by investigators working in areas relevant to the consensus questions during a 2-day public session; (2) questions and statements from conference attendees during open discussion periods that are part of the public session; and (3) closed deliberations by the panel during the remainder of the second day and morning of the third. This statement is an independent report of the panel and is not a policy statement of the NIH or the Federal Government. The statement reflects the panelís assessment of medical knowledge available at the time the statement was written. Thus, it provides a "snapshot in time" of the state of knowledge on the conference topic. When reading the statement, keep in mind that new knowledge is inevitably accumulating through medical research.

84. Tests, Assessments, Evaluations, High-Stakes Testing - Wrightslaw Do No Harm High Stakes testing and Students that should be implemented for statewideassessment systems to Includes data collected from all states with exit http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/test.index.htm

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85. Domestic Computer-based Testing Center List ComputerBased testing Center List for United states, US Territories,Puerto Rico and Canada. This list, which is updated continually http://etsis4.ets.org/tcenter/cbt_dm.cfm

Computer-Based Testing Center List for United States, U.S. Territories, Puerto Rico and Canada This list, which is updated continually, contains the computer-based testing centers currently in operation. Computer-based testing is available at Prometric TM Testing Centers (many Prometric Testing Centers are located inside Sylvan Learning Centers), some colleges and universities and ETS Field Offices. Click on the first letter of a state, U.S. Territory, Canadian province or Puerto Rico to view test center locations. Locating your nearest ETS Test Center in the United States is as easy as entering your zip code and clicking the 'Find Test Centers' button. A map showing the Center(s) closest to you will be displayed. Enter your ZIP code and click 'Find Test Centers' ZIP code: Centers to display: For more detailed information, please refer to your program bulletin or the GRE GMAT PRAXIS , or TOEFL Web sites. If you are ready to register call: 1-800-GRE-CALL for GRE registration, 1-800-GMAT-NOW for GMAT registration 1-800-853-6773 for PRAXIS registration, or

86. Assessment: NMD Ground-Based Midcourse System backgrounder An assessment NMD GroundBased Midcourse System, Because initial operationaltesting would need to deployment decision, the United states will not http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/missile_defense/page.cfm?pageID=563

87. ED410316 1996-12-00 Norm- And Criterion-Referenced Testing. ERIC/AE Digest. 9). In addition to this, most states also administer US Congress, Office of TechnologyAssessment (1992 testing in America's Schools Asking the Right Questions http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed410316.html

ERIC Identifier: Publication Date: Author: Bond, Linda A. Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation Washington DC. Norm- and Criterion-Referenced Testing. ERIC/AE Digest. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC Tests can be categorized into two major groups: norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. These two tests differ in their intended purposes, the way in which content is selected, and the scoring process which defines how the test results must be interpreted. This brief paper will describe the differences between these two types of assessments and explain the most appropriate uses of each. INTENDED PURPOSES The major reason for using a norm-referenced tests (NRT) is to classify students. NRTs are designed to highlight achievement differences between and among students to produce a dependable rank order of students across a continuum of achievement from high achievers to low achievers (Stiggins, 1994). School systems might want to classify students in this way so that they can be properly placed in remedial or gifted programs. These types of tests are also used to help teachers select students for different ability level reading or mathematics instructional groups.

88. NewsLinks: Education And Standardized Testing Education and Standardized testing students to be tested annually and would hold statesand school includes a wide body of work on assessment and accountability http://www.rand.org/hot/newslinks/education.html

Education and Standardized Testing Both houses of Congress have approved measures that would require students to be tested annually and would hold states and school districts accountable for their performances. RAND Education's research agenda includes a wide body of work on assessment and accountability . This research includes evaluating large-scale tests, establishing ways to compare the performance of students across states, and understanding the effects of policies that rely on accountability and assessment. Related research and writing on accountability and assessment include the following: Improving Student Achievement: What State NAEP Test Scores Tell Us, by David Grissmer, Ann Flanagan, Jennifer Kawata, Stephanie Williamson (RAND report, 2000, PDF ): Finds that students from similar families score differently across states and examines why. The Effects of the Washington State Education Reform on Schools and Classrooms: Initial Findings, by Brian Stecher, Sheila Barron, Tammi Chun, Karen Ross (RAND briefing, 2000, PDF ): A growing number of states are implementing standards-based accountability systems in efforts to improve student achievement. This briefing reports the initial findings from a study of Washington state's reform.

89. Board On Testing And Assessment (BOTA) Publications Board on testing and assessment. Publications. Title I testing and assessmentChallenging Standards for Disadvantaged Children,Summary of a Workshop, 1996; http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bota/BOTA_Publications.html

BOTA HOMEPAGE WHAT'S NEW ABOUT BOTA MEMBERSHIP ... Committee on NAEP Reporting Results for Accommodated Test Takers Board on Testing and Assessment Publications Reports available from National Academy Press: Methodological Advances in Large-Scale Cross-National Achievement Education Surveys Performance Assessments of Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop Reporting Test Results for Students with Disabilities and English-Language Learners: Summary of a Workshop Understanding Dropouts: Statistics, Strategies, and High-Stakes Testing, 2001 ... Transitions in Work and Learning: Implications for Assessment, 1997 Reports available from the Board: Letter Report on Evaluation of Voluntary National Tests, 1998 Evaluation of Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1996 Letter Report on Investigative Guidance on Fairness in Testing, 1996 The Use of IQ Tests in Special Education Decision Making and Planning, Summary of Two Workshops, Title I Testing and Assessment: Challenging Standards for Disadvantaged Children, Summary of a Workshop Transitions in Work and Learning: Implications for Assessment

90. Board On Testing And Assessment (BOTA) This workshop brought together experts in measurement and assessment, as well as Statesmust report the educational gain of adult education students to the http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bota/What's_New.html

BOTA HOMEPAGE WHAT'S NEW ABOUT BOTA MEMBERSHIP ... Bridging Classroom and Large-Scale Workshop Agenda Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between Large-Scale and Classroom Assessments Workshop Agenda On January 23-24, the Committee on Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning held a workshop that brought together leading experts in measurement and assessment with international, state, and local program directors to discuss the ways in which classroom and large-scale assessments can work together conceptually and operationally to better support student learning. Discussion focused on the relative successes and challenges of current efforts to align classroom and large-scale assessments with each other and with instruction, standards, curriculum, and professional development. In addition, workshop speakers explored practices in other countries; research-based visions of effective assessment programs that have not yet been put into practice; alternatives to standardized tests as sources of data for accountability purposes; opportunities and advances in our understanding of cognition and learning; and technological advances that may make new and more coherent systems of educational measurement possible. The National Academies Current Projects Publications Directories ... 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001

91. NCEO Related Projects Currently, more than ten states used outof-level considerations of using out-of-leveltesting for students in large-scale assessment programs, (2 http://education.umn.edu/nceo/projects/projdefault.html

WHO WE ARE ONLINE PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS CATALOG PROJECTS ... HOME Special Topic Areas: Accommodations Accountability Alternate Assessments ... Universal Design National Center on Educational Outcomes NCEO Related Projects NCEO participates in a number of assessment projects and research studies that collect data on the participation and performance of students with disabilities, as well as English language learners, and assess accommodations and alternate assessment approaches that facilitate the participation of all students in statewide assessment programs. The following are some of these projects: Out-of-Level Testing Project Policy Center Project Intended and Unintended Consequences Project This three-year project, funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), is evaluating the intended and unintended consequences of large-scale assessments and accountability systems on students with disabilities. The effects of accountability systems will be examined within five domains: (1) standards and IEPs, (2) achievement trends, (3) assessment and social promotion policies, (4) graduation policies and diploma options, and (5) system effects. To demonstrate the impact of accountability systems, the study will examine longitudinal data in a subset of states with mature accountability systems, and compare these results to states with emerging accountability systems. LEP Reports Project LEP Services Project WHO WE ARE ONLINE PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS CATALOG PROJECTS ... NCEO HOME SPECIAL TOPIC AREAS:

92. EPA/OSCP/Endocrine Disruptors: Program Overview In addition, EPA is working with the Organization for Economic Cooperation andDevelopment's Endocrine testing and assessment Task Force Exit Disclaimer to http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/overview.htm

Endocrine Disruptors Recent Additions Contact Us Print Version Search: EPA Home Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances Science Coordination and Policy Endocrine Disruptors Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Overview What are Endocrine Disruptors? Historical Background: Program Overview ... Related Links Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Overview Initial Sorting Priority-Setting Tier One Screening Tier Two Testing Click here to see a flow chart showing the basic structure of the screening program. Ensuring the reproductive, developmental and growth capabilities of humans and wildlife is vitally important, and of the 50 known vertebrate hormones, the estrogen, androgen, and thyroid hormones play major roles in these processes. Because these hormones are so important, methods and procedures to assess harmful effects of chemicals on these three systems have been studied. For this reason, the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program will focus initially on estrogenic, androgenic, and thyroid hormone effects. As ongoing research related to other hormones and test systems produces more scientific information, we will consider expanding the scope of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program to other hormones. For now, however, the estrogen, androgen, and thyroid hormone effects and test systems represent a scientifically reasonable focus for our Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.

93. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS P 26 at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to discuss how assessment testingcan most effectively be used to improve K12 education in the United states. http://www.utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/news/assess.htm

News Release For immediate release News contacts: Jenni Bullington, UTD jennib@utdallas.edu National, Local Education Experts To Meet At UTD To Discuss Best Ways Of Measuring Students’ Progress RICHARDSON, Texas (Feb. 11, 2002) - National experts in learning and assessing the progress of students will join local and state education leaders Feb. 26 at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to discuss how assessment testing can most effectively be used to improve K-12 education in the United States. The daylong event - dubbed the Texas Education Symposium on Testing and Assessment - is being sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, Issues in Science and Technology and UTD, and will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Galaxy Room of the Student Union Building on campus. The event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. “National education legislation mandates that all students in grades three through eight be tested as part of an effort to make schools accountable for their performance,” said Dr. John F. Kain, director of UTD’s Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and UTD’s Texas Schools Project. “Texas has been a leader in the use of testing to assess student progress, and it is hoped that by merging the practical experience of Texas educators with the scientific expertise of the National Academy of Sciences, useful guidance may be provided for all the nation’s school systems.”

94. Iowa State Daily - LETTER: Program Not Only Aid To Good Teachers A recent study compared students in single measure highstakes testingstates and students in states with lower-stakes assessment systems. http://www.iowastatedaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/14/3e4c5e9f77ca4

Front Page News Sports Opinion ... Archives OPINION EDITORIAL: Firing of Arnett ironic, warranted COLUMN: Media coverage aiding Hussein's regime COLULMN: Strange occurrences not only on April Fool's Day Poison Ink ... Letters Policy LETTER: Program not only aid to good teachers February 14, 2003 Iowa began discussing performance assessment in teacher licensure in the middle 1990s and subsequently mandated it for students who began college in Fall 2001. Iowa State is implementing performance assessment because of that requirement, not because of Quality Counts. Quality Counts weighs heavily whether states mandate statewide tests; Iowa does not. Instead, Iowa requires districts to develop their own local standards and create an assessment plan that includes other assessments and standardized tests that reflect those standards. Student achievement in any subject is too complex for a single-measure test. The organizations most involved with scientific assessment, the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education, recommend multiple forms of assessment for important decisions. Some studies suggest that single-measure, state-mandated, "high-stakes" testing promotes cheating by school officials and leads teachers to spend too much class time having students memorize for state tests. A recent study compared students in single measure "high-stakes" testing states and students in states with lower-stakes assessment systems. On other measures of achievement such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and ACT tests, the students in lower-stakes testing states seemed to do better.

95. Accomplishments - Domestic process of developing a draft assessment plan every homeland security office in Statesand territories Cyber Security Penetration testing And Supervisory Control http://oea.dis.anl.gov/accomp_dom.htm

Accomplishments Recent Domestic Activities: Energy Assurance Conference : On December 11 and 12, 2001, the Department of Energy hosted a meeting in Alexandria, VA with representatives of State governments and the energy industry to discuss energy security, assurance, reliability and energy emergency preparedness. This conference was designed to set the stage for future cooperative efforts between the States, the energy industry and the Federal government. Representatives from industry and government from 13 States attended. State Outreach : EA Homeland Security Assistance Visits. EA is currently working with all 50 States' gubernatorial staffs, State homeland security officials, energy response agencies, and energy industry representatives to open a new, ongoing dialog on critical infrastructure protection. This effort is critical if the Federal government is to gain a detailed understanding of the needs and perspectives of the States, as well as create the partnerships that will enhance the flow of critical infrastructure protection information. As of today, EA teams have visited 47 States and Puerto Rico to identify what specific needs exist, and put in place plans to support each State. The office has, however, been in voice contact with all 50 States regarding energy security, and is also in the process of developing a long-term State and regional engagement plan.

96. Monitoring Laboratory Practices In The United States of Hospital Coagulation Laboratory Practices, United states2001. External QualityAssessment (EQA) Resources. Proficiency testing - From Concept to Reality http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/mlp/default.asp

DLS Content ART CLIA CLIAC Cytology ... Upcoming Events Special Interest Quality Institute External Quality Assurance (EQA) On the Front Line: Protecting the Nation's Health Public Inquiries Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd. Atlanta, GA 30333 U.S.A Monitoring Laboratory Practices in the United States Results of the Survey of Hospital Coagulation Laboratory Practices, United States-2001 Quality Institute Conference April 13-15, 2003 - Atlanta, GA Initial conference of stakeholders interested in improving the quality of laboratory services and patient safety. External Quality Assessment (EQA) Resources Proficiency Testing - From Concept to Reality : Workshop on Strategies for Assuring Quality Testing in Countries Fighting an HIV/AIDS Epidemic Assuring the Quality of Laboratory Testing in Countries Fighting an HIV/AIDS Epidemic Global Odyssey 2002 : Materials from the International Conference on Proficiency Testing (PT) for Medical Laboratories National Laboratory System (NLS) Laboratory Demographics Selected References for Laboratory Personnel Issues Resources for Clinical Genetics Laboratories ... Clinical Laboratory Performance on Proficiency Testing Samples - U.S. 1994

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