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Mulvenon, Sean W.; Stegman, Charles E. – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2006
As part of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, many states are using confidence intervals to determine a range of scores for evaluating a school system. More specifically, the states are employing confidence intervals to help minimize measurement error in determining a school system's performance. The methodology and techniques employed in…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Computation, Intervals, Error of Measurement