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Purpose and Scope of Study
Pages 4-5

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... The committee recognizes in the legislation that requested this study a desire to bring about greater comparability among tests in the United States, while upholding traditions of state anc3 local control of education anc3 respecting the substantial public anc3 private investments that have been macle in developing educational tests anc3 assessments. In a word, we interpret the charge to us as an expression of Congress's desire to forge some unity of interpretation within a heterogeneous system of testing anc3 assessment.
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... ; · the degree to which state anc3 district tests change over time; anc3 · the degree to which state policies affect uses and interpretations of test results. To evaluate the methodological anc3 technical issues involved in establishing linkages between these kinds of tests, the committee is reviewing past efforts to link different tests anc3 assessments to each other and to NAEP.
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