82 FR 12085 - National Assessment Governing Board Quarterly Board Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 38 (February 28, 2017)

Page Range		12085-12086
FR Document		2017-03832

This notice sets forth the agenda for the March 2-4, 2017 Quarterly Board Meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board (hereafter referred to as Governing Board). This notice provides information to members of the public who may be interested in attending the meeting or providing written comments on the meeting. Due to unavoidable delays during the Administration transition, this notice is being posted less than 15 days prior to the Board meeting date.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 38 (Tuesday, February 28, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 38 (Tuesday, February 28, 2017)]
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[FR Doc No: 2017-03832]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Assessment Governing Board Quarterly Board Meeting

AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board, U.S. Department of
Education.

ACTION: Announcement of open and closed meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the agenda for the March 2-4, 2017
Quarterly Board Meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board
(hereafter referred to as Governing Board). This notice provides
information to members of the public who may be interested in attending
the meeting or providing written comments on the meeting. Due to
unavoidable delays during the Administration transition, this notice is
being posted less than 15 days prior to the Board meeting date.

DATES: The Quarterly Board Meeting will be held on the following dates:
March 2, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
March 3, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
March 4, 2017 from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Hilton Alexandria Old Town, 1767 King Street, Alexandria,
Virginia 22314.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer/
Designated Federal Official of the Governing Board, 800 North Capitol
Street NW., Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 357-6938,
fax: (202) 357-6945.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Statutory Authority and Function: The Governing Board is
established under the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Authorization Act, Title III of Public Law 107-279. Information on the
Governing Board and its work can be found at www.nagb.gov.
The Governing Board is established to formulate policy for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Governing
Board's responsibilities include the following: Selecting subject areas
to be assessed, developing assessment frameworks and specifications,
developing appropriate student achievement levels for each grade and
subject tested, developing standards and procedures for interstate and
national comparisons, improving the form and use of NAEP, developing
guidelines for reporting and disseminating results, and releasing
initial NAEP results to the public.

March 2-4, 2017 Committee Meetings

The Governing Board's standing committees will meet to conduct
regularly scheduled work based on agenda items planned for this
Quarterly Board Meeting and follow-up items as reported in the
Governing Board's committee meeting minutes available at http://nagb.gov/what-we-do/board-committee-reports-and-agendas.html.

Detailed Meeting Agenda: March 2-4, 2017

March 2: Symposium and Committee Meetings: NAEP Long-Term Trend
Symposium: Open Session: 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Assessment Development Committee (ADC): Closed Session: 1:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology (COSDAM): Open
Session: 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination Committee (R&D): Open Session: 1:30
p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Executive Committee: Open Session: 4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.; Closed
Session: 5:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

March 3: Full Governing Board and Committee Meetings

Full Governing Board: Open Session: 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.; 12:15
p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Committee Meetings:
ADC and COSDAM: Joint Open Session: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
ADC: Open Session: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
COSDAM: Open Session: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
R&D: Open Session 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

March 4: Full Governing Board and Committee Meetings

Nominations Committee: Closed Session: 7:30 a.m. to 8:10 a.m.; Open
Session: 8:10 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Governing Board: Closed Session: 8:30 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.; Open
Session: 8:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.; Closed Session: 10:30 a.m. to 11:45
a.m.
On Thursday, March 2, 2017, the Governing Board will convene a
symposium in open session on NAEP Long-Term Trend from 9:00 a.m. to
11:45 a.m. Thereafter, the standing committees will meet. ADC will meet
in closed session from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. to review secure digital-
based tasks for the grade 12 NAEP Science assessment and secure task
sketches for the NAEP Mathematics assessment at grades 4 and 8, as well
as secure Long-Term Trend Reading and Mathematics items. This meeting
must be conducted in closed session because the test items are secure
and have not been released to the public. Public disclosure of the
secure test items would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP
assessment program if conducted in open session. Such matters are
protected by exemption 9(B) of Sec. 552b(c) of Title 5 of the United
States Code.
COSDAM will meet in open session from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. R&D
will meet in open session from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Executive
Committee will meet in open session on March 2, 2017 from 4:30 p.m. to
5:15 p.m. and in closed session from 5:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. During the
closed session, the Executive Committee will receive and discuss cost
estimates and implications for implementing the Long-Term Trend
assessment. This meeting must be conducted in closed session because
public disclosure of this information would likely have an adverse
financial effect on the NAEP program by providing confidential cost
details and proprietary contract costs of current NAEP contractors to
the public. Discussion of this information would be likely to
significantly impede

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implementation of a proposed agency action if conducted in open
session. Such matters are protected by exemption 9(B) of section 552b
of Title 5 of the United States Code.
On Friday, March 3, the full Governing Board will meet in open
session from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. The Governing Board will review and
approve the March 2-4, 2017 Board meeting agenda and meeting minutes
from the November 2016 Quarterly Board Meeting. Thereafter, the
Chairman, Terry Mazany will administer the oath of office to a new
Board member, following which he will introduce the Governing Board's
new Deputy Executive Director and provide remarks.
This session will be followed by a report from the Executive
Director of the Governing Board, William Bushaw, followed by an update
on National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) work by Peggy Carr,
Acting Commissioner of NCES.
The Governing Board will recess for committee meetings at 9:45 a.m.
The committee meetings are scheduled to take place from 10:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. to conduct regularly scheduled work. ADC will meet in a
joint open session with COSDAM from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Thereafter
the two committees will meet separately in open session from 11:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. R&D will meet in open session from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00
p.m.
Following the committee meetings on Friday, March 3, the Governing
Board will meet in open session from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. for a
panel discussion on the topic of High School Graduates on the Path to
Middle Skills Jobs. Following a short break scheduled from 1:45 p.m. to
2:00 p.m., the Governing Board will meet in open session from 2:00 p.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
From 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., the Governing Board will engage in
follow up discussions on the Long-Term Trend Symposium. From 2:45 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m., the Board will have a discussion on the Response to the
Achievement Levels Evaluation.
Thereafter, the Governing Board will take a fifteen-minute break
and reconvene in open session from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. to receive a
briefing from Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School
Officers (CCSSO) Chris Minnich, and from the CCSSO/Governing Board
Policy Task Force Chair Shelly Loving-Ryder.
The March 3, 2017 meeting will adjourn at 5:00 p.m.
On March 4, the Nominations Committee will meet in closed session
from 7:30 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. The committee will discuss the final slate
of nominations for Governing Board vacancies for terms beginning on
October 1, 2017. The Nominations Committee's discussions pertain solely
to internal personnel rules and practices of an agency and information
of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. As such, the discussions are
protected by exemptions 2 and 6 of Sec. 552b(c) of Title 5 of the
United States Code.
The Nominations Committee will meet in open session on March 4 from
8:10 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to take action on the final candidates
recommended for open positions to be submitted to the Secretary of
Education. On March 4, the Governing Board will meet in closed session
from 8:30 a.m. to 8:50 a.m. to receive a briefing from the Nominations
Committee on the recommended final slate of candidates for Board
vacancies for terms beginning October 1, 2017. For the reasons noted
above, these discussions are also protected by exemptions 2 and 6 of
Sec. 552b(c) of Title 5 of the United States Code. Thereafter, from
8:50 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., the Board will meet in open session to take
action on the final slate of candidates for submission to the Secretary
of Education.
The Governing Board will meet in open session from 9:00 a.m. to
9:30 a.m. to discuss the Governing Board's Strategic Vision, and the
Chairman's charge to the committees.
The Governing Board will then take a fifteen minute break and
reconvene in open session from 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. to receive an
update on committee reports and take action on the R&D recommended
Guidelines for Releasing, Reporting and Disseminating Results.
The Governing Board will take another 15 minute break from 10:15
a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and then reconvene in closed session to receive a
briefing on the 2016 NAEP Arts Assessment Report. This meeting is being
conducted in closed session because the NAEP Arts Assessment data has
not been released to the public. Public disclosure of the secure data
would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP assessment
program if conducted in open session. Such matters are protected by
exemption 9(B) of Sec. 552b of Title 5 of the United States Code.
The March 4, 2017 meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 11:45 a.m.
Access to Records of the Meeting: Pursuant to FACA requirements,
the public may also inspect the meeting materials at www.nagb.gov
beginning on Thursday, March 2, 2017 by 10:00 a.m. ET. The official
verbatim transcripts of the public meeting sessions will be available
for public inspection no later than 30 calendar days following the
meeting.
Reasonable Accommodations: The meeting site is accessible to
individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or
service to participate in the meeting (e.g., interpreting service,
assistive listening device, or materials in an alternate format),
notify the contact person listed in this notice at least two weeks
before the scheduled meeting date. Although we will attempt to meet a
request received after that date, we may not be able to make available
the requested auxiliary aid or service because of insufficient time to
arrange it.
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Authority: Pub. L. 107-279, Title III--National Assessment of
Educational Progress Sec. 301.

Dated: February 22, 2017.
Munira Mwalimu,
Designated Federal Official, National Assessment Governing Board
(NAGB), U. S. Department of Education.
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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Announcement of open and closed meetings.
Dates		The Quarterly Board Meeting will be held on the following dates:
Contact		Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer/ Designated Federal Official of the Governing Board, 800 North Capitol Street NW., Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 357-6938, fax: (202) 357-6945.
FR Citation		82 FR 12085