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Download full textAlexander, Francie – 1986
The California Assessment Program (CAP) collects a wide range of achievement and demographic data to help local schools and districts improve their instructional programs. Tests in the areas of English/language arts, mathematics, history-social science and science designed by California educators are administered to students in grades 3, 6, 8, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment
PDF pending restorationCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1970
California law requires that the reading performance of children in selected grades throughout the state be tested. Since wide variations exist among California school districts in geographical, social, financial, and many other conditions, information related to many of these conditions in which pupils are learning to read is reported, thus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Grade 1, Grade 10
Hill, Richard K. – 1979
Four problems faced by the staff of the California Assessment Program (CAP) were solved by applying Rasch scaling techniques: (1) item cultural bias in the Entry Level Test (ELT) given to all first grade pupils; (2) nonlinear regression analysis of the third grade Reading Test scores; (3) comparison of school growth from grades two to three, using…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, Difficulty Level
Cronin, John; Dahlin, Michael; Adkins, Deborah; Kingsbury, G. Gage – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
At the heart of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the call for all students to be "proficient" in reading and mathematics by 2014. Yet the law expects each state to define proficiency as it sees fit and design its own tests. This study investigated three research questions related to this policy: (1) How consistent are various…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Mathematics Tests, Test Validity, Reading Tests
PDF pending restorationCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1974
Presented are findings from California's State testing program for 1971-72 and 1972-73. The factors (variables) examined were divided into two groups: output factors, indicators of school quality such as scores on achievement tests; and input factors, factors describing the characteristics of school districts such as class size, tax rate, etc.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Class Size, Comparative Analysis
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1972
The factors (variables) examined in the California State Testing Program were divided into two groups for the analyses: (1) the 11 indicators of school quality in terms of the products of the educational system, referred to as output factors (e.g., pupil scores on achievement tests); and (2) the 22 indicators of school quality in terms of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Class Size, Comparative Analysis
