Cornelia S. Orr

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  In a letter sent to NAGB Executive Director Cornelia Orr--a letter made public today--the SETDA board of directors expressed this concern.

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  Cornelia S. Orr, Ph.D.
  
  Assistant Deputy Commissioner
  
  Office of Assessment

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  Cornelia Orr Named Board Executive Director National Assessment Governing Board -- Newsroom -- Press Releases -- Assessment Expert Cornelia Orr Appointed Governing Board Executive Director
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  (May 18, 2009)—Members of the National Assessment Governing Board on Friday, May 15, appointed noted assessment expert Cornelia Smith Orr as the Board's new executive director.
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  Orr will begin a three-year appointment on July 20 as head of the Governing Board's professional staff. The Board sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - otherwise known as The Nation's Report Card.
  
  Orr will oversee several major developments, including the Board's work in using NAEP assessments in reading and mathematics to measure 12th grade preparedness, a pilot 12th grade state assessment program in reading and math, and expansion of NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) from 11 to 18 cities. TUDA is a special, voluntary study that has measured student performance in urban districts on math, reading, writing and science since 2002.
  
  Orr, currently a Tallahassee, Fla., resident, has an extensive background in the assessment field that spans nearly three decades. Orr received a Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation from Florida State University in 1982, with an emphasis in psychometrics, research design, and statistical methods.
  
  Since then, Orr has served in a variety of capacities at the state and local level, related to testing, research, teaching, and policy development. Orr has directed numerous Florida K-12 and postsecondary assessment programs, including the FCAT, certification and college placement exams, reading diagnostic assessments, kindergarten screening, and others. She also managed test programs for Leon County (Fla.) Schools, among other positions. Orr will replace former Board executive director Charles Smith, currently Vice President of ACT's Washington, DC bureau.

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  The state's administrator for assessment and school performance, Dr. Cornelia Orr, said during the Wednesday press conference that the goal is to make the test, "equal in difficulty from year to year."She added that so far, "it doesn't look like that was the case."

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  The inflated 2006 third-grade reading scores were because of errors in making the 2006 test equal in difficulty to the 2005 test, said Cornelia Orr, administrator for the Education Department's Office of Assessment and School Performance.That includes evaluating the weight of certain questions and their placement on the test.
  
  "It needs to be rescaled," Orr said on a media conference call."This was not intentional or deliberate."
  
  Responsibility lies with department officials and the test creator, Harcourt Assessment, she said.

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  "We don't think the performance this year is a downturn in our trend," said Cornelia Orr, a testing administrator in the Department of Education.

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  Cornelia Orr, administrator of the Florida Department of Education office of assessment and school performance, expects a rise in writing scores among 10th-graders as a result of the state's new "graduation requirement" status.

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  "We've had 14 years of increasing writing essay performance and this is only the first year that we've reported the performance levels," said Cornelia Orr, administrator for the state's Assessment and School Performance Office during a conference call with reporters.

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  Those students must score a Level 3, or 300 out of a possible 500 points, next year to be considered on grade level, said Cornelia Orr, assessment and school performance administrator for the DOE.The levels 1 through 5 are based 50 percent on the essay questions and 50 percent on the multiple choice, she said.
  
  This year, only 49 percent of sophomores in the state scored a 300 or better on the multiple-choice questions.In Lee, students scored an average of 293 points.
  
  "This year's sophomore class did not have to pass the multiple choice part," said Orr, adding the need for a good score should help next year's tenth-graders be more motivated.

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  'We don't think the performance of this year's third-graders is in any way a downturn in our trend,' said Cornelia Orr, administrator for the state Office of Assessment and School Performance. 'It's clearly on track.

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