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States' Procedures for Ensuring Out-of-Level Test Instrument Quality. Out-of-Level Testing Report 14
Download full textMinnema, Jane E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Moen, Ross E.; VanGetson, Gretchen R. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2004
The present study was initiated to gather information about states' out-of-level testing practices. Specifically, we wanted to see whether states attempted to align out-of-level tests with grade of enrollment content standards, what processes are used to complete this task, and what psychometric information states offer as evidence of that…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Testing Accommodations, Student Evaluation, State Government
Minnema, Jane E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; VanGetson, Gretchen R.; Jimenez, Rene – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2006
This study was designed, in part, to clarify some of the issues that surround including English language learners in states' large-scale assessment programs. More specifically, the authors gathered practical information at the local school level to understand these students' large-scale assessment experiences from a variety of perspectives, to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Research Design, Nontraditional Education
