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Traditional vs Intersectional DIF Analysis: Considerations and a Comparison Using State Testing Data
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Tony Albano; Brian F. French; Thao Thu Vo – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
Recent research has demonstrated an intersectional approach to the study of differential item functioning (DIF). This approach expands DIF to account for the interactions between what have traditionally been treated as separate grouping variables. In this paper, we compare traditional and intersectional DIF analyses using data from a state testing…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Analysis, Data Use, Standardized Tests
Understanding Student Performance on State Assessments: Leveraging Multiple Sources of State Data for Strategic Guidance
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André A. Rupp; Laura Pinsonneault – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
State education agencies are sitting on rich repositories of quantitative and qualitative assessment data. This document is designed to provide a conceptual framework and implementation guidance that can help agency leadership leverage and interrogate student performance data in systematic ways for reporting, outreach, and planning purposes. The…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Using Publicly Available Auxiliary Data to Improve Precision of Treatment Effect Estimation in a Randomized Efficacy Trial
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Charlotte Z. Mann; Jiaying Wang; Adam Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – Grantee Submission, 2024
The gold-standard for evaluating the effect of an educational intervention on student outcomes is running a randomized controlled trial (RCT). However, RCTs may often be small due to logistical considerations, and resulting treatment effect estimates may lack precision. Recent methods improve experimental precision by incorporating information…
Descriptors: Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Randomized Controlled Trials, Data Use
Using Publicly Available Auxiliary Data to Improve Precision of Treatment Effect Estimation in a Randomized Efficacy Trial
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Charlotte Z. Mann; Jiaying Wang; Adam Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2024
The gold-standard for evaluating the effect of an educational intervention on student outcomes is running a randomized controlled trial (RCT). However, RCTs may often be small due to logistical considerations, and resulting treatment effect estimates may lack precision. Recent methods improve experimental precision by incorporating information…
Descriptors: Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Randomized Controlled Trials, Data Use