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Nguyen, Bach Mai Dolly; Nguyen, Mike Hoa; Teranishi, Robert T.; Hune, Shirley – Educational Testing Service, 2015
Utilizing disaggregated data from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and the Educational Research Data Center (ERDC), this report offers a deeper and more nuanced perspective on the educational realities of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students and reinforces the need for disaggregated data to unmask the…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Pacific Islanders, Student Needs, Educational Opportunities
Teranishi, Robert; Lok, Libby; Nguyen, Bach Mai Dolly – Educational Testing Service, 2013
In 2013, the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI)--with support from ETS and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)--began an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) data quality campaign.…
Descriptors: College Students, Asian American Students, Pacific Islanders, Consciousness Raising
Moses, Tim; Deng, Weiling; Zhang, Yu-Li – Educational Testing Service, 2010
In the equating literature, a recurring concern is that equating functions that utilize a single anchor to account for examinee groups' nonequivalence are biased when the groups are extremely different and/or when the anchor only weakly measures what the tests measure. Several proposals have been made to address this equating bias by incorporating…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Differences
Rose, Norman; von Davier, Matthias; Xu, Xueli – Educational Testing Service, 2010
Large-scale educational surveys are low-stakes assessments of educational outcomes conducted using nationally representative samples. In these surveys, students do not receive individual scores, and the outcome of the assessment is inconsequential for respondents. The low-stakes nature of these surveys, as well as variations in average performance…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Educational Assessment, Data Analysis, Case Studies
Educational Testing Service, 2008
The Test of English as a Foreign Language[TM], better known as TOEFL[R], is designed to measure the English-language proficiency of people whose native language is not English. TOEFL scores are accepted by more than 6,000 colleges, universities, and licensing agencies in 130 countries. The test is also used by governments, and scholarship and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing