NRS JEOPARDY!
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Data
Assessment
Systems and Miscellaneous
Tool
Reporting
Educational
Gain
Follow-up
Measures
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This is the number of
educational functioning
levels.
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Question:
What is 12?
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Programs measure level
completion and
advancement using these.
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Question:
What are standardized
pre- and posttests?
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These are the skill areas
of the educational
functioning level
descriptors for ABE.
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What are reading, writing,
numeracy functional and
workplace skills?
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These three things are
needed to measure
educational learning
gains.
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What are (1) a pre-test, (2)
posttest, and (3) test scores
tied to NRS levels?
(Minimum contact hours for
posttests is also acceptable.)
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These are the four ABE
functioning levels.
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What are (1) beginning
literacy, (2) beginning basic
education, and (3) low and
(4) high intermediate basic
education?
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These are the methods
by which states collect
information on followup outcomes.
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What are survey and data
matching?
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These are the four NRS
follow-up outcome
measures.
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Question:
What are (1) obtain a secondary
school credential, (2) obtain
employment, (3) retain
employment, and (4) enter
postsecondary education or
training?
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These are the only
students for whom
follow-up measures
apply.
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What are students who set
a goal at intake of
achieving one or more of
the follow-up outcomes?
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To be considered “exited”
from the program, a student
must have completed
instruction or this.
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What is not attended for 90
consecutive days and is
not scheduled for further
instruction?
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These are two of a
state’s databases used
for data matching.
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What are unemployment
insurance and GED testing
databases?
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These are three of the
items required in the
state’s written
assessment policy.
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Question:
What are (1) tests used to measure
educational gain, (2) time that preand posttests are administered, and
(3) how test scores are tied to NRS
educational functioning levels?
(Training provided to local test
administrators is also acceptable.)
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When placement testing
indicates that a student is
functioning at one level in
reading and a lower level in
math, the program should place
the student at this level.
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What is the lowest
educational functioning
level?
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The scores of an
assessment for the
NRS must be tied to
this for placement.
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Question:
What are the educational
functioning levels?
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To allow for valid preposttesting to measure
educational gain, an
assessment must have this
feature.
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Question:
What is a different, but equivalent,
form or version of the test used
for initial placement? (Multiple
item bank is also acceptable if the
assessment is computer-adapted)
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OVAE approves tests
for use in the NRS
through this.
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Question:
What is an independent panel
of psychometricians who
review technical information
submitted by test publishers?
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This is the number of
times each year that
states must report NRS
data to OVAE.
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Question:
What is once a year?
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This is the number of
tables required for NRS
reporting.
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Question:
What is 10?
(12 is also acceptable.)
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This is the type of
database a program needs
to meet NRS
requirements.
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Question:
What is an individual
student record system that
is organized as a relational
database?
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The database must allow
this for analysis and
reporting by subpopulations
of students (e.g., age, race,
gender).
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Question:
What is disaggregation?
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To produce information for
follow-up, the database must
allow for identification of
individual students by these
two things.
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Question:
What are (a) goal, and
(b) exit date?
(SSN is also acceptable.)
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This is the definitive
written source of the
basic requirements of the
NRS measures and
methods.
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Question:
What are the NRS
Implementation
Guidelines?
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This is the Web site where
you can find a multitude of
NRS publications and
training resources.
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Question:
What is www.NRSWeb.org?
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The 12-to-30 hour rule
is a requirement of this
optional program
activity.
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Question:
What is a work-based
project class?
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These two things are
participation measures.
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Question:
What are contact hours and
program enrollment type?
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Status measures such as low
income, displaced homemaker,
and single parent, as well as
presence of learning
disabilities, are this.
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Question:
What are secondary or
optional measures?
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Final JEOPARDY!
These tables were added
this year for reporting
information on students
in distance education
classes.
What are Tables 4C
and 5A?