NAEP 1994 U.S. history report card : findings from the National Assessment of Educational ProgressDIANE Publishing, 1996 - 122 pages This book describes results from the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (naep) assessment in U.S. history, conducted at grades 4, 8, and 12. Included in this report card are the results of students' achievement at each grade and within various subgroups of the general population. The report discusses the relationships between student performance and instructional and home background variables. This information gives educators a context for evaluating the U.S. history achievement of students and the results that may be used to guide reform efforts. Chapters include: (1) "naep 1994 U.S. History Assessment"; (2) "U.S. History Results for the Nation and Regions"; (3) "U.S. History Achievement Levels"; (4) "Contexts in which Students Learn History"; and (5) "What Students Know and Can Do in U.S. History." A conclusion, three appendices, 52 tables, and 13 figures complete the book. (Eh). |
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90th Percentile 95-percent certainty Achievement Level Intervals appear in parentheses Assessment of Educational average scale scores Average U.S. History Center for Education Education Level Education Statistics Educational Progress NAEP Educational Testing Service estimate See Appendix estimated percentages appear factors not included fourth graders Grade 12 Grade 4 Nation High School Hispanic students Historical Theme History Achievement Levels history composite scale History Scale Scores homework Huey Long Identify minus two standard NAEP assessments NAEP U.S. history NATION'S REPORT Kaep National Center Nonpublic Schools Once or Twice outperformed Pacific Islander parental education partially explained percentages and average percentages of students permit a reliable population of interest Race/Ethnicity REPORT Kaep CARD Sample size insufficient scale scores appear sharecropping social studies SOURCE standard errors student performance students who reported studies or history subgroups Table teachers twelfth graders twice a month U.S. History Achievement U.S. History Assessment U.S. history composite U.S. History Scale whole population
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Page 117 - This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Page 8 - I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Page 8 - I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of thencharacter. I have a dream today.
Page 117 - ... all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. "More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.
Page 117 - I see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources. Its hundred and thirty million people are at peace among themselves; they are making their country a good neighbor among the nations.
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Page 8 - ... be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream...
Page 8 - I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Page 117 - But here is the challenge to our democracy: in this Nation I see tens of millions of its citizens — a substantial part of its whole population — who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.