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Benchmarks for Expected Annual Academic Growth for Students in the Bottom Quartile of the Normative Distribution
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Nancy K. Scammacca; Anna-Mária Fall; Greg Roberts – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Effect sizes are commonly reported for the results of educational interventions. However, researchers struggle with interpreting their magnitude in a way that transcends generic guidelines. Effect sizes can be interpreted in a meaningful context by benchmarking them against typical growth for students in the normative distribution. Such benchmarks…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Achievement Gains, Statistical Distributions, Low Achievement
Benchmarks for Expected Annual Academic Growth for Students in the Bottom Quartile of the Normative Distribution
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Nancy K. Scammacca; Anna-Mária Fall; Greg Roberts – Grantee Submission, 2015
Effect sizes are commonly reported for the results of educational interventions. However, researchers struggle with interpreting their magnitude in a way that transcends generic guidelines. Effect sizes can be interpreted in a meaningful context by benchmarking them against typical growth for students in the normative distribution. Such benchmarks…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
The Role of Stanford Achievement Test 10[TM] Subtests in Sixth Grade as a Predictor of Success on ACT's Eighth Grade Explore Exam[TM]
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Potts, Jeffrey D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a predictive correlation between a specific sixth grade achievement test known as the Stanford Achievement Test 10 and the eighth grade college readiness assessment instrument known as the Explore Exam for a group of North Texas students. Following an assessment during sixth grade, via the…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Grade 8, Grade 6, Academic Achievement
What Makes for a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell? Working Paper 30
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Harris, Douglas N.; Sass, Tim R. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
Mounting pressure in the policy arena to improve teacher productivity either by improving signals that predict teacher performance or through creating incentive contracts based on performance--has spurred two related questions: Are there important determinants of teacher productivity that are not captured by teacher credentials but that can be…
Descriptors: Credentials, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Skills, Principals
Achievement in Dade County Public Schools 1974-75.
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Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1975
This report encompasses the results of two 1974-75 testing programs: (1) the Florida Statewide Assessment Program of communication skills and mathematics, administered to pupils in grades 3, 6, and 9, and (2) the countywide testing program involving the Stanford Achievement Test, a national standardized test administered to pupils in grades 1-12.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Basic Quality of Secondary Education in Rural Montana. Bulletin 685.
Kimble, John W.; And Others – 1976
The Stanford Achievement Test was administered to 2,186 of the 47,045 Montana high school students to analyze whether or not school size is important in determining student achievement, and to analyze factors that affect student achievement and whether those factors vary by school size. The sample included 1,311 sophomores and 875 seniors. To…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection