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Writing Friends,

Thought you might be interested in this NAEP update.

Hope all is well.
Shona Willis

Shona Willis, Language Arts Director
Standards and Curriculum
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Blvd., Suite 315
Oklahoma City, OK. 73105
(405) 522-3522, Fax (405) 521-2971
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Development of a New Design for the 2011 National
Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) in Writing

The National Assessment of Educational Progress,
widely known as “the
Nation’s Report Card,” is the only nationally
representative and
continuing assessment of what America’s students know
and can do in
various academic subjects in grades 4, 8, and 12.
NAEP does not report
individual student scores but reports results for
large representative
student samples.  NAEP has been assessing student
achievement since
1969
so it is able to report not only on current student
achievement but
also
on how achievement has changed over time.

The current framework (or “blueprint”) for the NAEP in
Writing was
developed in the early 1990’s.  The primary goal of
the new framework
is
to reflect best practice in writing instruction and
assessment, and it
will be used to start a new trend line in 2011.  The
new framework will
likely be the basis for the assessment until the early
2020’s.  In
addition to assessing what students are expected to
achieve while in
school at grades 4, 8, and 12, the new assessment will
be designed to
assess students’ readiness for expectations in
college, the workplace,
and
the military.

ACT, the contractor charged with facilitating
development of the new
writing assessment, is seeking commentary on initial
recommendations
for
the content and design of the new framework at
conference sessions and
on
a website which will be available between April 1 and
May 15.
Commentary
will be collated and used to guide the development of
the framework.

The website address is [
http://www.act.org/naepwriting/
]http://www.act.org/naepwriting/.



Cherry M. Boyles
Kentucky Department of Education
Language Arts Branch Manager
500 Mero St., #1812 CPT
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 564-2106

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