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  1. Which federal law, enacted in 1965, was one of the first to tie federal funding to student performance data?

    Answer: Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 established federal funding for K-12 education and laid groundwork for accountability through student data.

  2. The Nation's Report Card is the informal name for which long-running national assessment?

    Answer: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

    NAEP, administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, has been called the Nation's Report Card since the 1970s.

  3. Which 1983 report warned of a 'rising tide of mediocrity' in American education, spurring widespread achievement testing reform?

    Answer: A Nation at Risk

    'A Nation at Risk,' published by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, triggered a wave of state-level testing and curriculum standards.

  4. What term describes the practice of adjusting raw achievement test scores to a fixed reference group so scores remain comparable across years?

    Answer: Scale score equating

    Scale score equating is the statistical process used to ensure scores on different test forms or years are on the same numerical scale.

  5. Which organization first administered the SAT in 1926, making it one of the earliest large-scale standardized tests in the U.S.?

    Answer: College Entrance Examination Board

    The College Board (College Entrance Examination Board) administered the first SAT in 1926, though ETS was later created in 1947 to develop and score it.

  6. The Stanford Achievement Test was first published in which decade?

    Answer: 1920s

    The Stanford Achievement Test was first published in 1923, making it one of the earliest commercially available standardized achievement batteries in the U.S.

  7. Which international assessment, first administered in 2000, measures 15-year-olds' reading, math, and science literacy across dozens of countries?

    Answer: Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

    PISA, administered by the OECD every three years, benchmarks 15-year-olds across participating nations in reading, mathematics, and science.