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Download full textFroman, Terry – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to promote local norms as a new way of reporting Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) results for Miami-Dade County district. The norms would: (1) show a student's relative standing in the district, and (2) show the student's growth compared to similar students. This paper presents questions about local norms,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Local Norms, Achievement Tests, Test Results
Newell, R. C.; Chambers, J. W., Ed. – 1982
Following the federal court's Ann Arbor (Michigan) decision regarding the education of children who speak black English, the National Institute of Education and the Ann Arbor Public Schools cosponsored a national conference on the subject, the proceedings of which are summarized in this paper. Following an introduction, the paper provides…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation
Portland Public Schools, OR. Evaluation Dept. – 1983
The Portland (OR) School District has a long-standing tradition of local achievement test development. Portland prefers to use scores and reporting procedures which capitalize on the advantages of "equal interval" which can be analyzed statistically by all procedures available. Portland testing programs serve a number of purposes: (1)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Latent Trait Theory, Local Norms
