[Federal Register: July 17, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 137)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 
National Assessment Governing Board; meeting

AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board; Education.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a 
forthcoming meeting of the Design and Methodology Committee 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 the general public of their opportunity to 
attend.
    Date: July 21, 1997.
    Time: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (open).
    Location: O'Hare Hilton Hotel, O'Hare International Airport, 
Terminal #2, Chicago, Illinois, 60666.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Ann Wilmer, Operations Officer, National Assessment Governing 
Board, Suite 825, 800 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 
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 (Title IV of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994), 
(Pub. L. 103-382).

    The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the 
National Assessment of Educational Progress. The Board is responsible 
for selecting subject areas to be assessed, developing assessment 
objectives, identifying appropriate achievement goals for each grade 
and subject tested, and establishing standards and procedures for 
interstate and national comparisons.
    The public is being given less than fifteen days notice of this 
meeting because of summer schedules which made it difficult to find a 
date mutually agreeable to a quorum of the Committee.
    On July 21, 1997 between the hours of 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. the 
Design and Methodology Committee will meet to review the draft versions 
of the commissioned papers and planning grants submitted in response to 
the NAEP Redesign competition. The Committee will then formulate final 
recommendations for the Board to consider regarding redesign issues 
that are critical to the drafting of the NAEP operations RFP. Also, the 
Committee will discuss the development of cost estimates for the NAEP 
redesign proposals.
    Summaries of these activities and related matters, which are 
informative to the public and consistent with the policy of section 5 
U.S.C. 553b(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, N.W., 
Washington, D.C., from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

    Dated: July 15, 1997.
Roy Truby,
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board.
[FR Doc. 97-18965 Filed 7-16-97; 8:45 am]
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