[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 29 (Monday, February 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5388-5389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3058]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board; Meeting
AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board; Education.
ACTION: Notice of partially closed meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board. This
notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this
meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act. This document is intended to notify the general public
of their opportunity to attend.
DATES: February 29-March 2, 1996.
TIME: February 29--Subject Area Committee #1, 4:00-6:00 p.m. (open);
Achievement Levels Committee, 4:00-6:00 p.m. (open); Executive
Committee, 7:00-9:00 p.m. (open). March 1--Full Board, 8:30 a.m.-10:00
a.m. (open); Design and Methodology Committee, Reporting and
Dissemination Committee, 10:00-11:15 a.m. (open); Joint Meeting Design
and Methodology and Reporting and Dissemination Committees, 11:15-12:00
Noon (open); Subject Area Committee #2, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon (open);
Full Board 12:00 Noon-4:30 p.m. (open). March 2--Nominations Committee,
8:00-9:00 a.m. (closed). Full Board, 9:00 a.m. until adjournment,
approximately, 12:00 Noon (open).
LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel--Pentagon City, 1250 South Hayes
Street, Arlington, Virginia.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Ann Wilmer, Operations Officer, National Assessment Governing
Board, Suite 825, 800 North Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC, 20002-
4233, Telephone: (202) 357-6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Assessment Governing Board is
established under section 412 of the National Education Statistics Act
of 1994 (Title IV of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994) (Pub.
L. 103-382).
The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Board is
responsible for selecting subject areas to be assessed, developing
assessment objectives, identifying appropriate achievement goals for
each grade and subject tested, and establishing standards and
procedures for interstate and national comparisons.
On February 29, two committees will meet in open session from 4:00-
6:00 p.m. Subject Area Committee #1 will meet to review and discuss
issues regarding the NAEP civics planning project. The Achievement
Levels Committee will meet to discuss plans for conducting the upcoming
meetings for the setting of achievement levels in science. Also, on
February 29, the Executive Committee will meet in open session from
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. The agenda for the Executive Committee includes a
briefing on the NAEP budget, and discussions regarding the use of NAEP
in projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and Westat.
On March 1, the full Board will convene in open session at 8:30
a.m. The agenda for this session of the full Board meeting includes
approval of the agenda, the Executive Director's Report, a Report on
TIMSS (The Third International Math and Science Study), and an update
on the NAEP project. Between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, there will be
open meetings of the following subcommittees: Design and Methodology,
Reporting and Dissemination, and Subject Area Committee #2. Design and
Methodology will discuss design issues related to future assessments,
specifically, domain scoring and computer adaptive testing. Agenda
items for the Reporting and Dissemination Committee include schedules
for the release of NAEP data, reporting of information on special
student populations, and dissemination of assessment frameworks.
Beginning at 11:15 a.m. until 12:00 noon, there will be a joint meeting
of the Design and Methodology and Reporting and Dissemination
Committees to discuss the issues related to the implementation of a
Marketbasket approach to NAEP reporting. Subject Area Committee #2 will
meet to review and discuss issues regarding the NAEP writing planning
project.
The full Board will reconvene in open session, beginning at 12:00
noon, to hear a presentation on NAEP on the information superhighway, a
briefing from its workgroup on planning, and a presentation on the
Civics frameworks.
On March 2, the Nominations Committee will meet in closed session
from 8:00-9:00 a.m. This meeting must be closed because the committee
will be considering qualifications of nominees for appointment to Board
membership. The review and subsequent discussion of this information
will touch upon matters that relate solely to the internal personnel
rules and practices of an agency and would disclose information of a
personal nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy if conducted in open session. Such matters
are protected by exemptions (2) and (6) of Section 552b(c) of Title 5
U.S.C.
Beginning at 9:00 a.m. the full Board will reconvene in open
session. The agenda for this session includes a briefing on plans for
the NAEP Evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences, and reports
from the Board's standing subcommittees--Subject Area Committees #1 and
#2, Achievement Levels, Reporting and Dissemination, Design and
Methodology, and Executive. The meeting of the National Assessment
Governing Board will be adjourned at approximately 12:00 Noon.
A summary of the activities of the closed session and related
matters, which are informative to the public and consistent with the
policy of section 5 U.S.C. 552b, will be available to the public within
14 days after the meeting. Records are kept of all Board proceedings
and are available for public inspection at the U.S. Department of
Education, National Assessment Governing Board, Suite 825, 800 North
Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Dated: February 7, 1996.
Roy Truby,
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board.
[FR Doc. 96-3058 Filed 2-9-96; 8:45 am]
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