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Sensitivity of Achievement Estimation to Conditioning Model Misclassification
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Rutkowski, Leslie – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
Large-scale assessment programs such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) use a sophisticated assessment administration design called matrix sampling that minimizes the testing burden on individual…
Descriptors: Measurement, Testing, Item Sampling, Computation
Estimating Achievement Gaps from Test Scores Reported in Ordinal "Proficiency" Categories
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Ho, Andrew D.; Reardon, Sean F. – Grantee Submission, 2012
Test scores are commonly reported in a small number of ordered categories. Examples of such reporting include state accountability testing, Advanced Placement tests, and English proficiency tests. This paper introduces and evaluates methods for estimating achievement gaps on a familiar standard-deviation-unit metric using data from these ordered…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Scores, Computation, Classification
Estimating Achievement Gaps from Test Scores Reported in Ordinal "Proficiency" Categories
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Ho, Andrew D.; Reardon, Sean F. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2012
Test scores are commonly reported in a small number of ordered categories. Examples of such reporting include state accountability testing, Advanced Placement tests, and English proficiency tests. This article introduces and evaluates methods for estimating achievement gaps on a familiar standard-deviation-unit metric using data from these ordered…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Scores, Computation, Classification