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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. See Question These are the methods by which states collect information on follow- up outcomes. $200

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. Question: Return to Board 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.) 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.) $200

25. 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 $400

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

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

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

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

30. Return to Board 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) 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) Question: $800

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. Return to Board See Question This is the definitive written source of the basic requirements of the NRS measures and methods. $200

44. Question: Return to Board What are the NRS Implementation Guidelines? What are the NRS Implementation Guidelines? $200

45. Return to Board See Question This is the Web site where you can find a multitude of NRS publications and training resources. This is the Web site where you can find a multitude of NRS publications and training resources. $400

46. Question: What is www.NRSWeb.org? What is www.NRSWeb.org?www.NRSWeb.org $400 Return to Board

47. See Question The 12-to-30 hour rule is a requirement of this optional program activity. $600

48. Return to Board Question: What is a work-based project class? What is a work-based project class? $600

49. Return to Board See Question These two things are participation measures. $800

50. Return to Board Question: What are contact hours and program enrollment type? What are contact hours and program enrollment type? $800

51. Return to Board See Question $1000 Status measures such as low income, displaced homemaker, and single parent, as well as presence of learning disabilities, are this.

52. Return to Board Question: What are secondary or optional measures? $1000

53. Final JEOPARDY!

54. These tables were added this year for reporting information on students in distance education classes.

55. What are Tables 4C and 5A? What are Tables 4C and 5A?