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AGENCY: Department of Education,
National Assessment Governing Board.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and
partially closed meetings.
SUMMARY: The 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 members
of the general public of their
opportunity to attend. Individuals who
will need special accommodations in
order to attend the meeting (e.g.;
interpreting services, assistive listening
devices, materials in alternative format)
should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202–
357–6938 or at
Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than
November 10, 2009. We will attempt to
meet requests after this date, but cannot
guarantee availability of the requested
accommodation. The meeting site is
accessible to individuals with
disabilities.
November 19–21, 2009.
Times:
DATES:
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November 19: Committee Meetings:
Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing
and Reporting on Students with
Disabilities and English Language
Learners: Open Session—2:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m.
Executive Committee: Open Session—
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Closed Session—
5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
November 20:
Full Board: Open Session—8:30 a.m.
to 11:15 a.m.; Closed Session—11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Open Session—3:00
p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Committee Meetings:
Assessment Development Committee:
Closed Session—12:45 p.m. to 2:00
p.m.; Open Session—2:00 p.m. to 3:00
p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology and Reporting and
Dissemination Committee: Joint Closed
Session—12:45 p.m. to 1:05 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology: Closed Session—1:05 p.m.
to 2:00 p.m.; Open Session—2:00 p.m.
to 3:00 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee: Open Session—1:05 p.m. to
3:00 p.m.
November 21:
Nominations Committee: Closed
Session—7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Board: Closed Session—8:30 a.m.
to 9:30 a.m.; Open Session—9:30 a.m. to
11:00 a.m.
Location: Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, 421
S. Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 27601.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board,
800 North Capitol Street, NW., Suite
825, 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, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate
policy guidelines for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP). The Board’s responsibilities
include selecting subject areas to be
assessed, developing assessment
specifications and frameworks,
developing appropriate student
achievement levels for each grade and
subject tested, developing standards and
procedures for interstate and national
comparisons, developing guidelines for
reporting and disseminating results, and
releasing initial NAEP results to the
public.
On November 19, 2009, the Ad Hoc
Committee on NAEP Testing and
Reporting on Students with Disabilities
(SD) and English Language Learners
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(ELL) will meet in open session from
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thereafter, the
Executive Committee will meet in open
session from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and
in closed session from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00
p.m. During the closed session on
November 19, 2009 the Executive
Committee will receive a briefing from
the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) on options for NAEP
contracts covering the 2010–2012
assessment years, based on funding for
Fiscal Year 2010–2011. The discussion
of contract options and costs will
address the implications for
congressionally mandated goals and
adherence to Board policies on NAEP
assessments. This part of the meeting
must be conducted in closed session
because public discussion of this
information would disclose
independent government cost estimates
and contracting options, adversely
impacting the confidentiality of the
contracting process. Public disclosure of
information discussed would
significantly impede implementation of
the NAEP contracts, and is therefore
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On November 20, the full Board will
meet in open session from 8:30 a.m. to
10:00 a.m. The Board will review and
approve the meeting agenda and
meeting minutes from the August 2009
Board meeting. Newly appointed Board
members will then be introduced. The
Board will also be addressed by North
Carolina educators. This session will be
followed by a report from the Governing
Board’s Executive Director and an
update from the Acting Commissioner
of Education Statistics on the work of
the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES).
From 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., the full
Board will receive a briefing on public
comments received on
recommendations of the Expert Panels
on SD and ELL students from the Ad
Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing and
Reporting. The full Board will then meet
in closed session from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. to receive a briefing from
NCES on the 2009 Trend Results for
Reading. The Board will be provided
with embargoed data that cannot be
discussed in an open meeting prior to
their official release. Premature
disclosure of data would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
Trend Assessment program, and is
therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of
section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
From 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on
November 20, the Assessment
Development Committee will meet in
closed session to receive a briefing from
Educational Testing Service on the 2009
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reading trend, reading vocabulary items,
grade 12 mathematics trend, science test
items, and the 2011 writing computerbased assessment. The Board will be
provided with embargoed data that
cannot be discussed in an open meeting
prior to their official release. Premature
disclosure of data would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
assessments in the subjects, and is
therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of
section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
Thereafter the Committee will meet in
open session till 3:00 p.m.
From 12:45 p.m. to 1:05 p.m. two of
the Board’s standing committees—the
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology (COSDAM) and the
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee—will meet in a joint closed
session to receive a briefing on 2009
participation rates for 12th grade
students and item response rates. In
addition, members will be briefed on
participation rates for private schools
and students for all grades in subjects
assessed in 2009. These data will
provide information to help determine
whether participation rates are
sufficient to assure reliable test results
and sufficiency of response rates for
reliable measurement.
Following this joint session, the
Reporting and Dissemination Committee
will meet in open session from 1:05
p.m. to 3:00 p.m. COSDAM will
continue to meet in closed session from
1:05 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. to receive a
briefing on trend results for 2009
reading and grade 12 mathematics.
Members will review secure data and
results on trend analyses for 2009
reading and grade 12 mathematics with
respect to achievement levels. The data
will inform decisions on whether the
evidence is sufficient to assure the
technical feasibility of maintaining
trend for reporting 2009 data. COSDAM
will receive a briefing on preliminary
results of the 2009 science achievement
levels pilot study. Members will review
secure science pilot results on the
percentages of students scoring at or
above the cut scores set in the science
pilot study, and they will review item
data.
These Committee meetings will be
partially closed since disclosure of the
secure data, not yet released to the
public, would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP reading
and science assessment programs at all
grades and mathematics at grade 12, and
is therefore protected by exemption 9(B)
of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in open
session on November 21 from 3:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m. to receive a briefing on the
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Framework project. This session will be
followed by an ethics briefing
conducted from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
provided to Board members from the
Office of General Counsel. The
November 20 session of the Board
meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 4:30
p.m.
On November 21, the Nominations
Committee will meet in closed session
from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to review
and discuss confidential information on
nominees (to include individual names
and resumes) received for Board
vacancies for terms beginning on
October 1, 2010. These discussions
pertain solely to internal personnel
rules and practices of an agency and
will disclose information of a personal
nature where disclosure would
constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy. As such, the
discussions are protected by exemptions
2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of Title 5
U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in closed
session on November 21 from 8:30 a.m.
to 9:30 a.m. to receive a briefing on the
2009 Trial Urban District Assessment
(TUDA) Mathematics Report Card. The
data has not been released to the public
and cannot be discussed in an open
meeting. Premature disclosure of the
embargoed data would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
TUDA program, and is therefore
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. Thereafter, the
Board will meet in open session from
9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. to review and
take action on Committee reports. The
November 21, 2009 session of the Board
meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 11:00
a.m.
Detailed minutes of the meeting,
including summaries of the activities of
the closed sessions and related matters
that are informative to the public and
consistent with the policy of section 5
U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the
public within 14 days of 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 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
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Dated: November 4, 2009.
Cornelia S. Orr,
Executive Director, National Assessment
Governing Board, U.S. Department of
Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board; Meeting
AGENCY: Department of Education, National Assessment Governing Board.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and partially closed meetings.
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SUMMARY: The 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 members of the
general public of their opportunity to attend. Individuals who will
need special accommodations in order to attend the meeting (e.g.;
interpreting services, assistive listening devices, materials in
alternative format) should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202-357-6938 or at
Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than November 10, 2009. We will attempt
to meet requests after this date, but cannot guarantee availability of
the requested accommodation. The meeting site is accessible to
individuals with disabilities.
DATES: November 19-21, 2009.
Times:
November 19: Committee Meetings:
Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing and Reporting on Students with
Disabilities and English Language Learners: Open Session--2:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m.
Executive Committee: Open Session--4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Closed
Session--5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
November 20:
Full Board: Open Session--8:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.; Closed Session--
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Open Session--3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Committee Meetings:
Assessment Development Committee: Closed Session--12:45 p.m. to
2:00 p.m.; Open Session--2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology and Reporting and
Dissemination Committee: Joint Closed Session--12:45 p.m. to 1:05 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology: Closed Session--
1:05 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.; Open Session--2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination Committee: Open Session--1:05 p.m. to
3:00 p.m.
November 21:
Nominations Committee: Closed Session--7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Board: Closed Session--8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.; Open Session--
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, 421 S. Salisbury Street, Raleigh,
NC 27601.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board, 800 North Capitol Street, NW.,
Suite 825, 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, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Board's
responsibilities include selecting subject areas to be assessed,
developing assessment specifications and frameworks, developing
appropriate student achievement levels for each grade and subject
tested, developing standards and procedures for interstate and national
comparisons, developing guidelines for reporting and disseminating
results, and releasing initial NAEP results to the public.
On November 19, 2009, the Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing and
Reporting on Students with Disabilities (SD) and English Language
Learners (ELL) will meet in open session from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thereafter, the Executive Committee will meet in open session from 4:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and in closed session from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
During the closed session on November 19, 2009 the Executive Committee
will receive a briefing from the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) on options for NAEP contracts covering the 2010-2012
assessment years, based on funding for Fiscal Year 2010-2011. The
discussion of contract options and costs will address the implications
for congressionally mandated goals and adherence to Board policies on
NAEP assessments. This part of the meeting must be conducted in closed
session because public discussion of this information would disclose
independent government cost estimates and contracting options,
adversely impacting the confidentiality of the contracting process.
Public disclosure of information discussed would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP contracts, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On November 20, the full Board will meet in open session from 8:30
a.m. to 10:00 a.m. The Board will review and approve the meeting agenda
and meeting minutes from the August 2009 Board meeting. Newly appointed
Board members will then be introduced. The Board will also be addressed
by North Carolina educators. This session will be followed by a report
from the Governing Board's Executive Director and an update from the
Acting Commissioner of Education Statistics on the work of the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
From 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., the full Board will receive a
briefing on public comments received on recommendations of the Expert
Panels on SD and ELL students from the Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing
and Reporting. The full Board will then meet in closed session from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to receive a briefing from NCES on the 2009
Trend Results for Reading. The Board will be provided with embargoed
data that cannot be discussed in an open meeting prior to their
official release. Premature disclosure of data would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP Trend Assessment program, and is
therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5
U.S.C.
From 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on November 20, the Assessment
Development Committee will meet in closed session to receive a briefing
from Educational Testing Service on the 2009
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reading trend, reading vocabulary items, grade 12 mathematics trend,
science test items, and the 2011 writing computer-based assessment. The
Board will be provided with embargoed data that cannot be discussed in
an open meeting prior to their official release. Premature disclosure
of data would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP
assessments in the subjects, and is therefore protected by exemption
9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. Thereafter the Committee will
meet in open session till 3:00 p.m.
From 12:45 p.m. to 1:05 p.m. two of the Board's standing
committees--the Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology (COSDAM)
and the Reporting and Dissemination Committee--will meet in a joint
closed session to receive a briefing on 2009 participation rates for
12th grade students and item response rates. In addition, members will
be briefed on participation rates for private schools and students for
all grades in subjects assessed in 2009. These data will provide
information to help determine whether participation rates are
sufficient to assure reliable test results and sufficiency of response
rates for reliable measurement.
Following this joint session, the Reporting and Dissemination
Committee will meet in open session from 1:05 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. COSDAM
will continue to meet in closed session from 1:05 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. to
receive a briefing on trend results for 2009 reading and grade 12
mathematics. Members will review secure data and results on trend
analyses for 2009 reading and grade 12 mathematics with respect to
achievement levels. The data will inform decisions on whether the
evidence is sufficient to assure the technical feasibility of
maintaining trend for reporting 2009 data. COSDAM will receive a
briefing on preliminary results of the 2009 science achievement levels
pilot study. Members will review secure science pilot results on the
percentages of students scoring at or above the cut scores set in the
science pilot study, and they will review item data.
These Committee meetings will be partially closed since disclosure
of the secure data, not yet released to the public, would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP reading and science assessment
programs at all grades and mathematics at grade 12, and is therefore
protected by exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in open session on November 21 from 3:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m. to receive a briefing on the NAEP Technological
Literacy Framework project. This session will be followed by an ethics
briefing conducted from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., provided to Board
members from the Office of General Counsel. The November 20 session of
the Board meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 4:30 p.m.
On November 21, the Nominations Committee will meet in closed
session from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to review and discuss confidential
information on nominees (to include individual names and resumes)
received for Board vacancies for terms beginning on October 1, 2010.
These discussions pertain solely to internal personnel rules and
practices of an agency and will disclose information of a personal
nature where disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy. As such, the discussions are protected by exemptions
2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in closed session on November 21 from 8:30
a.m. to 9:30 a.m. to receive a briefing on the 2009 Trial Urban
District Assessment (TUDA) Mathematics Report Card. The data has not
been released to the public and cannot be discussed in an open meeting.
Premature disclosure of the embargoed data would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP TUDA program, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. Thereafter, the
Board will meet in open session from 9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. to review
and take action on Committee reports. The November 21, 2009 session of
the Board meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 11:00 a.m.
Detailed minutes of the meeting, including summaries of the
activities of the closed sessions and related matters that are
informative to the public and consistent with the policy of section 5
U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the public within 14 days of 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 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
Electronic Access to This Document: You may view this document, as
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the
Internet at the following site: https://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister/ To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is
available free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF,
call the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free at 1-888-293-
6498; or in the Washington, DC, area at (202) 512-1530.
Note: The official version of this document is the document
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/.
Dated: November 4, 2009.
Cornelia S. Orr,
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board, U.S.
Department of Education.
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