NAEP 1996 Science State Report for West Virginia. Findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress [microform] / Christine Y. O'Sullivan, Laura Jerry and Nada Ballator
- Bib ID:
- 5610895
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- O'Sullivan, Christine Y
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- [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1997
- 132 p.
- Summary:
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In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment (TSA); for the first time in the NAEP's history, voluntary state-by-state assessments were made. The sample was designed to represent the 8th grade public school population in a state or territory. In 1996, 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Department of Defense schools, took part in the NAEP state science assessment program. The NAEP 1996 state science assessment was at grade 8 only, although grades 4, 8, and 12 were assessed at the national level as usual. The 1996 state science assessment covered three major fields: earth, physical, and life sciences. In West Virginia, 2,602 students in 105 public schools were assessed. This report describes the science proficiency of West Virginia eighth-graders, compares their overall performance to students in the Southeast region of the United States and the entire United States (using data from the NAEP national assessment), presents the average proficiency for the three major fields, and summarizes the performance of subpopulations (gender, race/ethnicity, parents' educational level, Title I participation, and free/reduced lunch program eligibility). To provide a context for the assessment data, participating students, their science teachers, and principals completed questionnaires which focused on: instructional content (curriculum coverage, amount of homework); delivery of science instruction (availability of resources, type); use of computers in science instruction; educational background of teachers; and conditions facilitating science learning (e.g., hours of television watched, absenteeism). On the NAEP fields of science scales that range from 0 to 300, West Virginia students had an average proficiency of 147 compared to 148 throughout the United States. The average science scale score of males did not differ significantly from that of females in either West Virginia or the nation. At the eighth grade, White students in West Virginia had an average science scale score that was higher than those of Black and Hispanic students. (DDR/NB)
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC.
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- Subject:
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- Academic Achievement
- Academic Standards
- Educational Change
- Grade 8
- Hands on Science
- Junior High Schools
- National Competency Tests
- Problem Solving
- Science Education
- Science Process Skills
- Sex Differences
- Standardized Tests
- Student Evaluation
- Tables (Data)
- West Virginia
- National Assessment of Educational Progress State Science Assessments
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