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Download full textCronin, 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
Stennett, R. G.; Isaacs, Lorna M. – 1979
The preliminary report--two-thirds of which consists of tabular data--describes an early identification system used in London, Ontario (Canada) for kindergarten and first grade high risk students, and provides some data bearing on the internal consistency and concurrent validity of the system. Simple descriptive summaries of some characteristics…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Failure, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationCrowley, Susan L. – 1995
This study used data from 992 cases in 16 longitudinal studies of the Early Intervention Research Institute to evaluate five measures of family functioning: (1) Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale-III; (2) Family Support Scale; (3) Family Resources Scale; (4) Parenting Stress Index; and (5) Family Inventory of Life Events.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education
Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, Bureau of Educational Research. – 1982
Survey results have suggested that, while teachers like to have test information available, most do not have great skill or consistency in interpreting test score data. Teachers who consider a certain type of test very valuable or useful are less likely to question the accuracy of the scores than are teachers who consider a test to be of little…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Attitude Change, Decision Making, Educational Research
McCarson, Carole S. – 1981
This paper: (1) reviews the development and implementation of a test designed to assess the competencies of public high school students in Atlanta, Georgia, preceding their graduation; and (2) presents the results of indicator cluster correlations between the new "Basic Skills Tests" and other reading and mathematics basal tests…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cluster Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements
Gilmartin, Kevin J. – 1981
Activities and findings of the Statistical Analysis Group in Education (SAGE), which sought (1) to develop and validate financial and nonfinancial indicators of college or university viability and (2) to measure institutional viability of types of colleges related to federal policy goals for higher education. Development of the longitudinal file…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Analysis
National Academy of Education, Stanford, CA. – 1993
The National Academy of Education Panel is providing the intellectual leadership and coordination for an independent evaluation of the 1990 and 1992 Trial State Assessments (TSA) of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These instruments provide state-by-state comparisons of educational achievement, which is the first such use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students
Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M. – 2002
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), selected a nationally representative sample of approximately 22,000 kindergartners in the fall of 1998 and is following these children through the end of the fifth grade. Baseline data about these children, their families, and their kindergarten programs were collected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Catholic Schools, Cognitive Ability
