Grant Closed

Examination of Low Motivation in the 12th Grade NAEP

NCES

Program: NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant

Award amount: $96,389

Principal investigator: S. Lynne Stokes

Awardee:

Southern Methodist University

Year: 2007

Award period: 1 year 6 months (07/01/2007 - 12/31/2008)

Project type:

Other

Award number: R902B070022

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to look for evidence of motivation problems in 12th graders by examining the students' response patterns. Evidence for motivation problems will consist of uneven performance in apparent "ability" over the course of the exam on dichotomous items, or abnormal differences in performance on dichotomous and extended constructed response items.