NRS JEOPARDY!

1. NRS JEOPARDY! The Adult Education Community’s Favorite Quiz Show

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3. This is the number of educational functioning levels. $200 Return to Board See Question

4. Question: $200 What is 12? Return to Board

5. $400 Programs measure level completion and advancement using these. Return to Board See Question

6. Question: $400 What are standardized pre- and posttests? Return to Board

7. $600 These are the skill areas of the educational functioning level descriptors for ABE. Return to Board See Question

8. $600 Question: What are reading, writing, numeracy functional and workplace skills? Return to Board

9. $800 These three things are needed to measure educational learning gains. Return to Board See Question

10. $800 Question: What are (1) a pre-test, (2) posttest, and (3) test scores tied to NRS levels? (Minimum contact hours for posttests is also acceptable.) Return to Board

11. These are the four ABE functioning levels. $1000 Return to Board See Question

12. $1000 Question: What are (1) beginning literacy, (2) beginning basic education, and (3) low and (4) high intermediate basic education? Return to Board

13. These are the four NRS assessments for educational gain for ESL. $2000 Return to Board See Question

14. $2000 Question: What are (1) Best Plus, (2) BEST Literacy, (3) CASAS and (4) CLASE? Return to Board

15. $200 These are the methods by which states collect information on follow-up outcomes. Return to Board See Question

16. $200 Question: What are survey and data matching? Return to Board

17. $400 These are the four NRS follow-up outcome measures. Return to Board See Question

18. $400 Question: What are (1) obtain a secondary school credential, (2) obtain employment, (3) retain employment, and (4) enter postsecondary education or training? Return to Board

19. $600 These are the only students for whom follow-up measures apply. Return to Board See Question

20. $600 Question: What are students who set a goal at intake of achieving one or more of the follow-up outcomes? Return to Board

21. $800 To be considered “exited” from the program, a student must have completed instruction or this. Return to Board See Question

22. $800 Question: What is not attended for 90 consecutive days and is not scheduled for further instruction? Return to Board

23. $1000 These are two of a state’s databases used for data matching. Return to Board See Question

24. $1000 Question: What are unemployment insurance and GED testing databases? Return to Board

25. This measure must be reported for students who achieve their goal of obtaining employment. $2000 Return to Board See Question

26. $2000 Question: What is retained employment? Return to Board

27. These are three of the items required in the state’s written assessment policy. $200 Return to Board See Question

28. Question: $200 What are (1) tests used to measure educational gain, (2) time that pre- and posttests are administered, and (3) how test scores are tied to NRS educational functioning levels? (Training provided to local test administrators is also acceptable.) Return to Board

29. $400 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. Return to Board See Question

30. $400 Question: What is the lowest educational functioning level? Return to Board

31. $600 The scores of an assessment for the NRS must be tied to this for placement. Return to Board See Question

32. $600 Question: What are the educational functioning levels? Return to Board

33. $800 To allow for valid pre-posttesting to measure educational gain, an assessment must have this feature. Return to Board See Question

34. $800 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.) Return to Board

35. $1000 OVAE approves tests for use in the NRS through this. See Question Return to Board

36. $1000 Question: What is an independent panel of psychometricians who review technical information submitted by test publishers? Return to Board

37. Obtaining a GED can count as a level completion only for this level. $2000 Return to Board See Question

38. $2000 Question: What is High ASE? Return to Board

39. $200 This is the number of times each year that states must report NRS data to OVAE. Return to Board See Question

40. Question: $200 What is once a year? Return to Board

41. This is the number of tables required for NRS reporting. $400 Return to Board See Question

42. $400 Question: What is 10? (12 is also acceptable.) Return to Board

43. $600 This is the type of database a program needs to meet NRS requirements. Return to Board See Question

44. $600 Question: What is an individual student record system that is organized as a relational database? Return to Board

45. $800 The database must allow this for analysis and reporting by subpopulations of students (e.g., age, race, gender). Return to Board See Question

46. $800 Question: What is disaggregation? Return to Board

47. $1000 To produce information for follow-up, the database must allow for identification of individual students by these two things. Return to Board See Question

48. $1000 Question: What are (a) goal, and (b) exit date? (SSN is also acceptable.) Return to Board

49. This is the number of optional NRS tables. $2000 Return to Board See Question

50. $2000 Question: What is 5? Return to Board