[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 207 (Tuesday, October 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 57287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-28742]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Advisory Council on Education Statistics, Policy Committee
AGENCY: National Center on Education Statistics, Education.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the Advisory Council on Education Statistics
(ACES). This 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: October 28-29, 1998.
TIMES: October 28, 1998--Full Council, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.; Management
Committee, 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.; Statistics Committee, 1:30 p.m.-5:00
p.m.; and Strategy/Policy Committee, 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. October 29,
1998--Full Council 11:45 a.m.-2:45 p.m.; Statistics Committee, 8:30
a.m.-11:30 a.m.; Strategy/Policy Committee, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; and
Management Committee, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Phoenix Park Hotel, 520 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barbara Marenus, National Center for Education Statistics, 555 New
Jersey Ave., NW, Room 400J, Washington, DC 20208-5530 (202) 219-1835.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Advisory Council on Education Statistics
(ACES) is established under Section 406(c)(1) of the Education
Amendments of 1974, Pub. L. 93-380. The Council is established to
review general policies for the operation of the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) in the Office of Educational Research and
Improvement and is responsible for advising on standards to insure that
statistics and analyses disseminated by NCES are of high quality and
are not subject to political influence. In addition, ACES is required
to advise the Commissioner of NCES and the National Assessment
Governing Board on technical and statistical matters related to the
National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The meeting of the
Council is open to the public.
The proposed agenda for the full Council includes the following:
A status report from the NCES Commissioner on major Center
initiatives;
A report from the National Research Council on its
evaluation study of NAEP; and
The presentation of Committee reports.
Individual meetings of the three ACES subcommittee will
focus on specific topics:
The agenda for the Management Committee includes
discussion on the implications of the Center-wide role of statistics
and technology in the new organization, a briefing on customer service
activities and a demonstration on the utilization of the new
practitioner web page, a discussion of ``capacity building'' activities
for NCES, and a discussion of NCES organization planning and staffing
activities.
The agenda for the Statistics Committee includes a
discussion on issues arising from statistical adjustments to data, a
report on new methodological projects for NCES, and a discussion of the
response probability convention in assessment scales.
The agenda for the Strategy/Policy Committee includes a
discussion on a new instructional practice study for NCES, a discussion
on teacher quality and the Schools and Staffing Survey, and a report on
the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and the Implications
for NCES.
Records are kept of all Council proceedings and are
available for public transportation at the Office of the Executive
Director, Advisory Council on Education Statistics, 555 New Jersey
Avenue, NW, Room 400J, Washington, D.C. 20208-7575.
C. Kent McGuire,
Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement.
[FR Doc. 98-28742 Filed 10-26-98; 8:45 am]
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