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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED345948 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Iowa. The LEVELS of Mathematics Assessment: Initial
Performance Standards for the 1990 NAEP Mathematics
Assessment.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1991)
NOTE: 32 p.; For related documents, see ED 342 685-687.
AVAILABILITY: NAGB Report, 1100 L Street, NW, Suite 7322,
Washington, DC 20005-4013.
ABSTRACT: The National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) is a congressionally mandated statistical survey of
educational achievement of U.S. students in a variety of
curriculum areas and of changes in that achievement over
time. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)
established new standards for reporting the results that
resulted in three achievement levels: basic, proficient,
and advanced. This book of the Initial Performance
Standards for the 1990 NAEP Mathematics Assessment, reports
the results on 61 Grade 8 items released to the public for
the state of Iowa. The book is organized in four sections.
Section 1 reports the percentages of students in Iowa at or
above each achievement level, and compares these results to
the regional and national percentages. The Iowa results are
also tabulated by gender, race/ethnicity, type of
community, and parents' education. Section 2 gives
information on how to read the tables in the subsequent
sections and definitions are provided to assist readers in
the interpretation of these data. Sections 3 and 4 provide
the Iowa, Regional, and National results for Grade 8
released items. (MDH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Group-Testing; Junior-High-Schools;
Mathematics-Education; Mathematics-Skills; Mathematics
Tests; Minimum-Competency-Testing; National-Programs; State
Programs
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Achievement-Gains; *Achievement-Rating;
*Grade-8; *Mathematics-Achievement; *Test-Results
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