• Nation's Report Card (National Assessment of Educational Progress)

  "The Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, history, geography, the arts, and other fields. By making information on student performance -- and instructional factors related to that performance -- available to policymakers at the national, state, and local levels, NAEP is an integral part of our nation's evaluation of the condition and progress of education."

• The Kentucky Department of Education maintains many links to CATS (Commonwealth Accountability Testing System), the test implemented by Kentucky which replaced KIRIS (Kentucky Instructional Results Information System) in 1998. The links include the following:
• Accountability System
• KIRIS Report - Gender and Race Differences
• CATS Validity and Reliability Studies
• Scoring Guides for Parents

• Instructional Resources
  • Curriculum Documents and Resources
  • Literacy
  • Student & Family Support Resources

• Home Schooling In Kentucky

• School Report Cards

• Council of Chief State School Officers

The Council's Mission, through leadership, advocacy, and service, assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an American
education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life.

• The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is an informative site (not Kentucky-specific) -- they have a good glossary of assessment terms

• There is a special section pertaining to KIRIS called "Performance Awards in Kentucky" in History of Teacher Pay Changes (September 1995), made available through CPRE Finance Briefs: Reinventing Teacher Compensation Systems, an offering from the U. S. Department of Education Publications Page.

• KIRIS is highlighted in a section on state-developed assessment systems in Section 2: Reform through Linking Title I to Challenging Academic Standards of Mapping out the National Assessment of Title I: The Interim Report, also published by the U. S. Department of Education.

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