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Committee on Embedding Common Test Items in State and District Assessments
In Public Law 105-277, Congress asked the National Research Council to determine the technical feasibility, validity, and reliability of embedding test items from NAEP or other tests in state and district assessments in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade mathematics for the purpose of developing a valid measure of student achievement within states and districts and in terms of national performance standards or scales.
There are a number of important issues about score comparability and test equivalence posed by Public Law 105-277; the recently released National Research Council report, Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests; and the General Accounting Office report, Student Testing: Issues Related to Voluntary National Mathematics and Reading Tests. To examine these issues, the NRC will form a committee of experts to:
- examine the questions posed in the legislation, the NRC report, and the GAO report
- develop a set of study questions
- gather relevant information through a workshop, commissioned papers, and a thorough review of existing literature and available data.
Final Report of the Committee:
Embedding Questions: The Pursuit of a Common Measure in Uncommon Tests, 1999
Members:
Daniel M. Koretz (Chair), Center for Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, Boston College
Susan Agruso, South Carolina Department of Education
Ronald K. Hambleton, School of Education, University of Massachussetts - Amherst
Paul W. Holland (BOTA liaison), Graduate School of Education, University of California - Berkeley
H.D. Hoover, Iowa Testing Programs, University of Iowa
Brian W. Junker, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
James A. Watts, Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA
Karen K. Wixson, School of Education, University of Michigan
Wendy Yen, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA
Rebecca Zwick, Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
For more information contact:
Board on Testing and Assessment
National Research Council, HA 450
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20418
Telephone: 202-334-2353
Facsimile: 202-334-1294
E-mail: bota1@nas.edu
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