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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board
Quarterly Board Meeting
National Assessment
Governing Board, U.S. Department of
Education.
ACTION: Announcement of open and
closed meetings.
AGENCY:
This notice sets forth the
agenda for the May 18–20, 2017
Quarterly Board Meeting of the National
Assessment Governing Board (hereafter
referred to as Governing Board). This
notice provides information to members
of the public who may be interested in
attending the meeting or providing
written comments on the meeting. Due
to unavoidable delays during the
Administration transition, this notice is
being posted less than 15 days prior to
the Board meeting date.
DATES: The Quarterly Board Meeting
will be held on the following dates:
• May 18, 2017 from 12:30 p.m. to
5:30 p.m.
• May 19, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45
p.m.
• May 20, 2017 from 7:30 a.m. to
11:45 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The Commons Hotel, 615
Washington Avenue SE., Minneapolis,
MN 55414
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer/
Designated Federal Official of the
Governing Board, 800 North Capitol
Street NW., Suite 825, Washington, DC
20002, telephone: (202) 357–6938, fax:
(202) 357–6945.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Statutory Authority and Function:
The Governing Board is established
under the National Assessment of
Educational Progress Authorization Act,
Title III of Pub. L. 107–279. Information
on the Governing Board (hereafter
Governing Board) and its work can be
found at www.nagb.gov.
The Governing Board is established to
formulate policy for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP). The Governing Board’s
responsibilities include the following:
Selecting subject areas to be assessed,
developing assessment frameworks and
specifications, developing appropriate
student achievement levels for each
grade and subject tested, developing
standards and procedures for interstate
and national comparisons, improving
the form and use of NAEP, developing
guidelines for reporting and
disseminating results, and releasing
initial NAEP results to the public.
SUMMARY:
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May 18–20, 2017 Committee Meetings
The Governing Board’s standing
committees will meet to conduct
regularly scheduled work based on
agenda items planned for this Quarterly
Board Meeting and follow-up items as
reported in the Governing Board’s
committee meeting minutes available at
https://nagb.gov/what-we-do/boardcommittee-reports-and-agendas.html.
Detailed Meeting Agenda: May 18–20,
2017
May 18: Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee
(ADC): Closed Session: 12:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m.;
Executive Committee: Open Session:
4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Closed Session:
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
May 19: Full Governing Board and
Committee Meetings
Full Governing Board: Open Session:
8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.; Closed Session:
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.; Open Session
2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Committee Meetings:
Assessment Development Committee
(ADC): Open Session: 10:30 a.m. to
11:45 a.m.; Closed Session: 11:45 a.m. to
12:45 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology (COSDAM): Open Session:
10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination (R&D):
Open Session 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.;
Closed Session 12:05 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
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May 20: Full Governing Board and
Committee Meetings
Nominations Committee: Closed
Session: 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Governing Board: Open Session:
8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
On Thursday, May 18, 2017, ADC will
meet in closed session from 12:30 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. to review secure cognitive
items and digital-based tasks for the
grade 12 NAEP Mathematics
assessment, the grade 12 NAEP Reading
assessment, and the NAEP Science at
grades 4, 8, and 12. The ADC will also
review items and secure data for survey
questionnaire items to be administered
with NAEP assessments for Science,
U.S. History, Civics, and Geography.
This meeting must be conducted in
closed session because the test items
and data are secure and have not been
released to the public. Public disclosure
of the secure test items would
significantly impede implementation of
the NAEP assessment program if
conducted in open session. Such
matters are protected by exemption 9(B)
of § 552b(c) of Title 5 of the United
States Code.
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On Thursday, May 18, 2017, the
Executive Committee will convene in
open session from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30
p.m., and in closed session from 4:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. During the closed
session, the Executive Committee will
receive and discuss information related
to the federal budget process,
independent cost estimates and
implications for implementing NAEP’s
Assessment Schedule through 2024, and
the Governing Board’s planned
procurements to implement its Strategic
Vision. This meeting must be conducted
in closed session because public
disclosure of this information would
likely have an adverse financial effect
on the NAEP program by providing
confidential cost details and proprietary
contract costs of current contractors to
the public. Discussion of this
information would be likely to
significantly impede implementation of
a proposed agency action if conducted
in open session. Such matters are
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b of Title 5 U.S.C.
On Friday, May 19, 2017, the
Governing Board will meet in open
session from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The
Governing Board will review and
approve the May 18–20, 2017 Board
meeting agenda and meeting minutes
from the March 2017 Quarterly Board
Meeting. Thereafter, a panel of
Minneapolis District Leaders will lead a
session on Social Emotional Learning
and the Relationship to Traditional
Academic Variables. The Governing
Board will recess for standing
committee meetings which will take
place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
On May 19, 2017, COSDAM will meet
in open session from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45
p.m. ADC will meet in open session
from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and
thereafter, in closed session from 11:45
a.m. to 12:45 p.m. During the closed
session, the committee will continue
reviewing items from the Thursday,
May 19 session, which includes secure
items, tasks, and data addressing NAEP
assessments in Mathematics, Reading,
Science, U.S. History, Civics, and
Geography. This meeting must be
conducted in closed session because the
test items and data are secure and have
not been released to the public. Public
disclosure of the secure test items
would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP assessment
program if conducted in open session.
Such matters are protected by
exemption 9(B) of § 552b(c) of Title 5 of
the United States Code.
On May 19, 2017, R&D will meet in
open session from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00
p.m. and thereafter in closed session
from 12:05 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. During
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the closed session, the Committee will
review data collected from core
contextual variables included on NAEP.
This session will feature unreleased
results from pilot studies that are used
to decide which variables to include in
future administrations of NAEP. This
meeting must be conducted in closed
session because the pilot study results
are secure and have not been released to
the public. Public disclosure of the
secure test items would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
assessment program if conducted in
open session. Such matters are
protected by exemption 9(B) of § 552b(c)
of Title 5 of the United States Code.
Following the closed session, R&D will
meet in open session from 11:00 a.m. to
12:45 p.m.
On May 19, 2017, the Governing
Board will meet in closed session from
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. to receive a
briefing on the embargoed Mapping
State Proficiency Standards onto the
2015 NAEP Reading and Mathematics
Scales Report. This meeting is being
conducted in closed session because the
report has not been released to the
public. Public disclosure of the secure
data would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP assessment
program if conducted in open session.
Such matters are protected by
exemption 9(B) of § 552b of Title 5 of
the United States Code.
Thereafter, the Governing Board will
take a fifteen-minute break and
reconvene in open session from 2:30
p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Executive Director
of the Governing Board, William
Bushaw, will provide his report,
followed by an update on National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
work by Peggy Carr, Acting
Commissioner of NCES. From 3:00 p.m.
to 4:45 p.m. the Governing Board will
meet in breakout sessions to discuss the
Strategic Vision Goal # 9 on Policy
Approaches to Revise NAEP Assessment
Subjects and the NAEP Schedule.
The May 19, 2017 meeting will
adjourn at 4:45 p.m.
On May 20, 2017, the Nominations
Committee will meet in closed session
from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. The
committee will discuss the 2017 and
2018 nominations. The Nominations
Committee’s discussions pertain solely
to internal personnel rules and practices
of an agency and information of a
personal nature where disclosure would
constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy. As such,
the discussions are protected by
exemptions 2 and 6 of § 552b(c) of Title
5 of the United States Code.
The Governing Board will meet in
open session on May 20, 2017 from 8:30
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a.m. to 10:15 a.m. to receive summaries
of the prior day’s discussion on
Strategic Vision Goal # 9 followed by a
discussion on Strategic Vision Goal #10
on New Approaches to Measuring
Complex Skills Required for
Postsecondary Education and Career.
The Governing Board will then take a
fifteen minute break and reconvene in
open session from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00
a.m. to receive an update on committee
reports. From 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
the Governing Board will discuss
Strategic Vision #7, Long-Term Options;
this session will be led by Board
member Joe Wilhoft, COSDAM ViceChair.
The May 20, 2017 meeting is
scheduled to adjourn at 11:45 a.m.
Access to Records of the Meeting:
Pursuant to FACA requirements, the
public may also inspect the meeting
materials at www.nagb.gov beginning on
Monday, May 1, 2017 by 10:00 a.m. ET.
The official verbatim transcripts of the
public meeting sessions will be
available for public inspection no later
than 30 calendar days following the
meeting.
Reasonable Accommodations: The
meeting site is accessible to individuals
with disabilities. If you will need an
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the meeting (e.g., interpreting service,
assistive listening device, or materials in
an alternate format), notify the contact
person listed in this notice. Although
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may not be able to make available the
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because of insufficient time to arrange
it.
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Authority: Pub. L. 107–279, Title III—
National Assessment of Educational Progress
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Dated: May 8, 2017.
William J. Bushaw,
Executive Director, National Assessment
Governing Board (NAGB), U.S. Department
of Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board Quarterly Board Meeting
AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board, U.S. Department of
Education.
ACTION: Announcement of open and closed meetings.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the agenda for the May 18-20, 2017
Quarterly Board Meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board
(hereafter referred to as Governing Board). This notice provides
information to members of the public who may be interested in attending
the meeting or providing written comments on the meeting. Due to
unavoidable delays during the Administration transition, this notice is
being posted less than 15 days prior to the Board meeting date.
DATES: The Quarterly Board Meeting will be held on the following dates:
May 18, 2017 from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
May 19, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
May 20, 2017 from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The Commons Hotel, 615 Washington Avenue SE., Minneapolis,
MN 55414
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer/
Designated Federal Official of the Governing Board, 800 North Capitol
Street NW., Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 357-6938,
fax: (202) 357-6945.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Statutory Authority and Function: The Governing Board is
established under the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Authorization Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-279. Information on the
Governing Board (hereafter Governing Board) and its work can be found
at www.nagb.gov.
The Governing Board is established to formulate policy for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Governing
Board's responsibilities include the following: Selecting subject areas
to be assessed, developing assessment frameworks and specifications,
developing appropriate student achievement levels for each grade and
subject tested, developing standards and procedures for interstate and
national comparisons, improving the form and use of NAEP, developing
guidelines for reporting and disseminating results, and releasing
initial NAEP results to the public.
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May 18-20, 2017 Committee Meetings
The Governing Board's standing committees will meet to conduct
regularly scheduled work based on agenda items planned for this
Quarterly Board Meeting and follow-up items as reported in the
Governing Board's committee meeting minutes available at https://nagb.gov/what-we-do/board-committee-reports-and-agendas.html.
Detailed Meeting Agenda: May 18-20, 2017
May 18: Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee (ADC): Closed Session: 12:30 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m.;
Executive Committee: Open Session: 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Closed
Session: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
May 19: Full Governing Board and Committee Meetings
Full Governing Board: Open Session: 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.; Closed
Session: 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.; Open Session 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Committee Meetings:
Assessment Development Committee (ADC): Open Session: 10:30 a.m. to
11:45 a.m.; Closed Session: 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology (COSDAM): Open
Session: 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination (R&D): Open Session 10:30 a.m. to 12:00
p.m.; Closed Session 12:05 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
May 20: Full Governing Board and Committee Meetings
Nominations Committee: Closed Session: 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Governing Board: Open Session: 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
On Thursday, May 18, 2017, ADC will meet in closed session from
12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. to review secure cognitive items and digital-
based tasks for the grade 12 NAEP Mathematics assessment, the grade 12
NAEP Reading assessment, and the NAEP Science at grades 4, 8, and 12.
The ADC will also review items and secure data for survey questionnaire
items to be administered with NAEP assessments for Science, U.S.
History, Civics, and Geography. This meeting must be conducted in
closed session because the test items and data are secure and have not
been released to the public. Public disclosure of the secure test items
would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP assessment
program if conducted in open session. Such matters are protected by
exemption 9(B) of Sec. 552b(c) of Title 5 of the United States Code.
On Thursday, May 18, 2017, the Executive Committee will convene in
open session from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and in closed session from
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. During the closed session, the Executive
Committee will receive and discuss information related to the federal
budget process, independent cost estimates and implications for
implementing NAEP's Assessment Schedule through 2024, and the Governing
Board's planned procurements to implement its Strategic Vision. This
meeting must be conducted in closed session because public disclosure
of this information would likely have an adverse financial effect on
the NAEP program by providing confidential cost details and proprietary
contract costs of current contractors to the public. Discussion of this
information would be likely to significantly impede implementation of a
proposed agency action if conducted in open session. Such matters are
protected by exemption 9(B) of section 552b of Title 5 U.S.C.
On Friday, May 19, 2017, the Governing Board will meet in open
session from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The Governing Board will review
and approve the May 18-20, 2017 Board meeting agenda and meeting
minutes from the March 2017 Quarterly Board Meeting. Thereafter, a
panel of Minneapolis District Leaders will lead a session on Social
Emotional Learning and the Relationship to Traditional Academic
Variables. The Governing Board will recess for standing committee
meetings which will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
On May 19, 2017, COSDAM will meet in open session from 10:30 a.m.
to 12:45 p.m. ADC will meet in open session from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45
a.m. and thereafter, in closed session from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
During the closed session, the committee will continue reviewing items
from the Thursday, May 19 session, which includes secure items, tasks,
and data addressing NAEP assessments in Mathematics, Reading, Science,
U.S. History, Civics, and Geography. This meeting must be conducted in
closed session because the test items and data are secure and have not
been released to the public. Public disclosure of the secure test items
would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP assessment
program if conducted in open session. Such matters are protected by
exemption 9(B) of Sec. 552b(c) of Title 5 of the United States Code.
On May 19, 2017, R&D will meet in open session from 10:30 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. and thereafter in closed session from 12:05 p.m. to 12:45
p.m. During the closed session, the Committee will review data
collected from core contextual variables included on NAEP. This session
will feature unreleased results from pilot studies that are used to
decide which variables to include in future administrations of NAEP.
This meeting must be conducted in closed session because the pilot
study results are secure and have not been released to the public.
Public disclosure of the secure test items would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP assessment program if conducted in open
session. Such matters are protected by exemption 9(B) of Sec. 552b(c)
of Title 5 of the United States Code. Following the closed session, R&D
will meet in open session from 11:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
On May 19, 2017, the Governing Board will meet in closed session
from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. to receive a briefing on the embargoed
Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto the 2015 NAEP Reading and
Mathematics Scales Report. This meeting is being conducted in closed
session because the report has not been released to the public. Public
disclosure of the secure data would significantly impede implementation
of the NAEP assessment program if conducted in open session. Such
matters are protected by exemption 9(B) of Sec. 552b of Title 5 of the
United States Code.
Thereafter, the Governing Board will take a fifteen-minute break
and reconvene in open session from 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Executive
Director of the Governing Board, William Bushaw, will provide his
report, followed by an update on National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) work by Peggy Carr, Acting Commissioner of NCES. From
3:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. the Governing Board will meet in breakout
sessions to discuss the Strategic Vision Goal # 9 on Policy Approaches
to Revise NAEP Assessment Subjects and the NAEP Schedule.
The May 19, 2017 meeting will adjourn at 4:45 p.m.
On May 20, 2017, the Nominations Committee will meet in closed
session from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. The committee will discuss the 2017
and 2018 nominations. The Nominations Committee's discussions pertain
solely to internal personnel rules and practices of an agency and
information of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. As such, the
discussions are protected by exemptions 2 and 6 of Sec. 552b(c) of
Title 5 of the United States Code.
The Governing Board will meet in open session on May 20, 2017 from
8:30
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a.m. to 10:15 a.m. to receive summaries of the prior day's discussion
on Strategic Vision Goal # 9 followed by a discussion on Strategic
Vision Goal #10 on New Approaches to Measuring Complex Skills Required
for Postsecondary Education and Career.
The Governing Board will then take a fifteen minute break and
reconvene in open session from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. to receive an
update on committee reports. From 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. the
Governing Board will discuss Strategic Vision #7, Long-Term Options;
this session will be led by Board member Joe Wilhoft, COSDAM Vice-
Chair.
The May 20, 2017 meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 11:45 a.m.
Access to Records of the Meeting: Pursuant to FACA requirements,
the public may also inspect the meeting materials at www.nagb.gov
beginning on Monday, May 1, 2017 by 10:00 a.m. ET. The official
verbatim transcripts of the public meeting sessions will be available
for public inspection no later than 30 calendar days following the
meeting.
Reasonable Accommodations: The meeting site is accessible to
individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or
service to participate in the meeting (e.g., interpreting service,
assistive listening device, or materials in an alternate format),
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attempt to meet a request, we may not be able to make available the
requested auxiliary aid or service because of insufficient time to
arrange it.
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Authority: Pub. L. 107-279, Title III--National Assessment of
Educational Progress Sec. 301.
Dated: May 8, 2017.
William J. Bushaw,
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), U.S.
Department of Education.
[FR Doc. 2017-09609 Filed 5-11-17; 8:45 am]
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