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Testing and Assessment

Testing and Assessment

How to measure what students know is one of the most complex and controversial aspects of education. Our studies explore all aspects of measurement and assessment, techniques and technologies for assessment, test policy, and the use of tests in accountability systems. Our work also examines assessment in the workplace and its use in human resources planning. See also:

Board on Testing and Assessment

Download the booklet, Lessons Learned About Testing: Ten Years of Work at the National Research Council.

Current Projects

Committee for the Five Year (2009-2013) Summative Evaluation of the District of Columbia's Public Schools The committee will write a consensus evaluation report that describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013 and also addresses the questions outlined in the PERAA legislation about effects on business practices; human resources operations and human capital strategies; academic plans; and student achievement.

Developing Assessment of Science Proficiency in K-12 The committee will make recommendations for strategies for developing assessments that validly measure student proficiency in science as laid out in the new K-12 science education framework....

Reports of Interest

	Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop (BOTA) 2011 The routine jobs of yesterday are being replaced by technology and/or shipped off-shore. In their place, job categories that require knowledge management, abstract reasoning, and personal services... Read more

	Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education (BOTA) 2011 In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left... Read more

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	The Future of the Sociology of Aging: An Agenda for Action, recently released from the Committee on Population, explores the causes, consequences and implications of demographic, economic and social changes that are vital to the development of sound social policy for an aging population. The report evaluates the recent contributions of social demography, social epidemiology, and sociology to the study of aging and identifies promising new research directions in these subfields.► Read more
	Health and Incarceration: A Workshop Summary from the Committee on Law and Justice explores questions about the adequacy of healthcare for those entering and exiting the U.S. prisons and jails. The workshop, on which this report is based, was undertaken as part of a larger study on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. ► Read More
	Recent Report! This report, Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger: A Workshop Summary, explores questions about the causes and consequences of child hunger in the United States and reviews the adequacy of data, policies, and research to address this problem. ► Read more