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PDF pending restorationTexas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Student Assessment. – 2001
This report outlines statewide results on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) for the 1998-1999 academic year. Also included are statewide data from the administration of the Spanish TAAS and the Algebra I, Biology, English II, and U.S. History end-of-course examinations. To allow a broader view of the assessment program's history,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Algebra, Biology
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1998
This report outlines student performance results from the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) for the 1997-1998 school year as well as results from the Spanish TAAS tests and the Biology I and Algebra I end-of-course examinations. Data represent test results for students not in special education. The chapters are: (1) "Executive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Algebra, Biology
Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. – 1998
This report presents results from the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) tests administered in the spring of 1997 and results from end of course tests in Algebra and Biology. Only a slight decrease in the percentage passing the eighth-grade social studies test marred the otherwise across-the-board rise in percentages meeting minimum…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Algebra, Biology
Peer reviewedNakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 2001
This paper examines the rating scale data of oral proficiency tests analyzed by a Rasch Analysis focusing on an item map and factor analysis. In discussing the item map, the difficulty order of six items and students' answering patterns are analyzed using descriptive statistics and measures of central tendency of test scores. The data ranks the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
