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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011): User's Manual for the ECLS-K:2011 Kindergarten-Third Grade Data File and Electronic Codebook, Public Version. NCES 2018-034
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Tourangeau, Karen; Nord, Christine; Lê, Thanh; Wallner-Allen, Kathleen; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Blaker, Lisa; Najarian, Michelle – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This manual provides guidance and documentation for users of the longitudinal kindergarten-fourth grade (K-4) public-use data file of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011), which includes the first release of the public version of the third-grade data. This manual mainly provides information specific…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Children, Surveys, Kindergarten
Assessing the Reliability of Tests Used to Make Pass/Fail Decisions.
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Livingston, Samuel A.; Wingersky, Marilyn A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1979
Procedures are described for studying the reliability of decisions based on specific passing scores with tests made up of discrete items and designed to measure continuous rather than categorical traits. These procedures are based on the estimation of the joint distribution of true scores and observed scores. (CTM)
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Efficiency, Error of Measurement