The number of students within an assessed grade.

Used to define minority school status, historically disadvantaged minorities include Black students and Hispanic students.

Westat field staff member hired to coordinate all NAEP field activities with the State Departments of Education and the Westat home office staff.

A measure of the level of historically disadvantaged minority student groups being served by schools participating in the High School Transcript Study. Low minority schools have less than 5 percent di [..]

The non-accommodated reporting sample. It sampled students that have neither a student disability (SD) nor a limited English proficiency (LEP), plus SD/LEP students from sessions in which accommodatio [..]

One systematic ordering of all the booklets in the spiral.

A change in how a test is presented, in how it is administered, or in how the test taker is allowed to respond. This term generally refers to changes that do not substantially alter what the test meas [..]

Performance standards set by the National Assessment Governing Board that provide a context for interpreting student performance on NAEP, based on recommendations from panels of educators and members [..]

The percentage of students within the total population, or in a particular student group, who meet or exceed expectations of what students should know and be able to do. Specifically, it is the weight [..]

A form prepared for each session to be held in a cooperating school. The administration schedule serves as a student roster to be used to carry out the session that lists the students that are to be i [..]