Date sent:      	Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:48:24 -0500
From:           	"Richard G. Innes" 
Subject:        	[education-consumers] NAEP Links to State Assessments
Jeanne wrote:




<<<<"Bush's proposal would let states develop their own tests for
measuring student performance, but the results would be compared with a
national test known as the National Assessment of Education Progress.">>>>


Jeanne and ECC (& Beyond):


Kentucky has been attempting to establish a NAEP link for years.  It has
always fallen apart.  


For example, in the early part of the 1990s, Kentucky posted one year
correlations between the 1992 NAEP 4th Grade Reading Assessment and the
Kentucky 1992 KIRIS 4th Grade reading scores.  These were rather high, and
the Kentucky Department of Education claimed this showed KIRIS was working
and was valid.  Only after the 1994 reading scores for both assessments
became available did we learn that NAEP had dropped a point while KIRIS
went up dramatically.  So much for that effort to link the assessments.


More recently, Dr. Bob Linn wrote a report in the CRESST web site that
shows links from several state tests to NAEP failed in what are called the
"tails of the distribution."  For the non-statistical types, that means
the weak kids and the strongest kids scores didn't correlate (Big
surprise, right).  Of course, these are precisely the children we are most
worried about, anyway, the gifted and the learning disabled.  And, both
may be getting poorly treated by public education according to current
annecdotal evidence.  No wonder there is a push to do the NAEP link,
because that will bury the failure of schools "in the tails of the
distribution" even more so than is happening today.


Richard Innes 


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