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Download full textSmarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2016
The goal of this study was to gather comprehensive evidence about the alignment of the Smarter Balanced summative assessments to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Alignment of the Smarter Balanced summative assessments to the CCSS is a critical piece of evidence regarding the validity of inferences students, teachers and policy makers can…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Summative Evaluation, Common Core State Standards, Test Content
Powers, Sonya; Li, Dongmei; Suh, Hongwook; Harris, Deborah J. – ACT, Inc., 2016
ACT reporting categories and ACT Readiness Ranges are new features added to the ACT score reports starting in fall 2016. For each reporting category, the number correct score, the maximum points possible, the percent correct, and the ACT Readiness Range, along with an indicator of whether the reporting category score falls within the Readiness…
Descriptors: Scores, Classification, College Entrance Examinations, Error of Measurement
Peer reviewedBaxter, G. P.; Ahmed, S.; Sikali, E.; Waits, T.; Sloan, M.; Salvucci, S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The Nation's Report Card[TM] informs the public about the academic achievement of elementary and secondary students in the United States and its jurisdictions, including Puerto Rico. In 2003, a trial NAEP mathematics assessment was administered in Spanish to public school students at grades 4 and 8 in Puerto Rico. Based on preliminary analyses of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 8
National Assessment Governing Board, 2007
This paper presents the assessment and item specifications for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 mathematics assessment. "Chapter Two" contains descriptions of the five major content areas of mathematics (Number Properties and Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, and…
Descriptors: Test Items, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, National Competency Tests
Gierl, Mark J.; Tan, Xuan; Wang, Changjiang – College Board, 2005
The results of this study conclude that there is a multidimensional basis for test score inferences on the mathematics and critical reading sections of the SAT. Results from the exploratory analyses indicate that the data are multidimensional, as mathematics displayed two dimensions and critical reading displayed three dimensions. The correlations…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Standardized Tests, Scores, Inferences
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
