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Author: Flanagan, Ann.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Grissmer, David W.
Flanagan, Ann.
Improving the NAEP Data For Policy Analysis
Working Paper, Washington DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, 1997.
Also: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309062853/html/45.html#pagetop
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education
Keyword(s): Children, Academic Development; Education; Family Influences; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS)

Grissmer and Flanagan combined information from several federal databases to help explore student performance data, define problems areas for close examination, and stimulate discussion of possible solutions. They investigated potential sources of improved performance by combining NAEP information with census data, information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and from the National Education Longitudinal Study. They studied academic gains in relation to data on changing family characteristics, changed education and social policies, and increased investment. Like other analysts, Grissmer and Flanagan found a strong relationship between family variables and academic performance. Most important, however, they found that class size and student/teacher ratio variables bore s lesser but still strong relationship to academic performance, a finding that ran counter to earlier, much publicized research. The smaller class sizes were funded by compensatory educational monies available to minority students and schools during the time period studied.
Bibliography Citation
Grissmer, David W. and Ann. Flanagan. "Improving the NAEP Data For Policy Analysis." Working Paper, Washington DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, 1997.
2. Grissmer, David W.
Flanagan, Ann.
Why Did The Black-White Score Gap Narrow In The 1970s And 1980s?
In: The Black-White Test Score Gap. C. Jencks and M. Phillips, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998: pp. 182-226
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Education; National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Racial Differences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT

Grissmer and his colleagues look at several different educational changes that may have had an impact on the rise in black students' test scores. They find that some changes in education appear to have mattered more than others.

To determine how trends in test scores are related to other social changes, the authors relate National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data to family characteristics from the Current Population Survey and the National Education Longitudinal Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.

Bibliography Citation
Grissmer, David W. and Ann. Flanagan. "Why Did The Black-White Score Gap Narrow In The 1970s And 1980s? " In: The Black-White Test Score Gap. C. Jencks and M. Phillips, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998: pp. 182-226