LOCK HAVEN – Dr. Jonathan Stout, assistant professor of special education, is currently serving on the 2013-2016 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Questionnaire Standing Committee (QSC).
This committee includes experts in survey design and methodology and in educational research and practice and is chaired by Roger Tourangeau, an expert in survey methodology.
Stout was selected for this committee based on his contributions to research on instructional methodologies and technologies, his expertise in the fields of special education and early childhood education, and his service as the chair of the Bureau of Indian Education Advisory Board for Exceptional Children.
Stout has been employed with Lock Haven University for the past six years. “Being asked to serve on the NAEP Questionnaire Standing Committee is extremely important me. The NAEP is a resource and tool for teacher preparation and educational researchers. In addition, the NAEP influences government decisions in education.”
The NAEP is a large-scale assessment of what American students know and can do in various subject areas. NAEP has two major components: cognitive tests that measure the achievement of students on well-defined content, and non-cognitive questionnaire items that elicit information from students, teachers, and school administrators about demographics and the educational process.
The questionnaire portion of the NAEP has three functions. First, they are used to define subgroups of the examined population of reporting purposes. The second function is to support research on the factors that affect NAEP scores. Lastly, the questionnaire improves the estimation of students’ proficiency distribution on the cognitive components of the NAEP.
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