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POINT/CounterPOINT: The View from the Trenches of Education Policy Research
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Ballou, Dale; Springer, Matthew G.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Stecher, Brian M.; Hamilton, Laura; Pepper, Matthew – Grantee Submission, 2012
The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study testing the hypothesis that rewarding teachers for improved student scores on standardized tests would cause scores to rise. Results, as described in Springer et al. (2010b), did not confirm this hypothesis. In this article we provide additional information on the POINT study…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Standardized Tests, Scores, Rewards
POINT/CounterPOINT: The View from the Trenches of Education Policy Research
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Ballou, Dale; Springer, Matthew G.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Stecher, Brian M.; Hamilton, Laura; Pepper, Matthew – Education Finance and Policy, 2012
The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study testing the hypothesis that rewarding teachers for improved student scores on standardized tests would cause scores to rise. Results, as described in Springer et al. (2010b), did not confirm this hypothesis. In this article we provide additional information on the POINT study…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Standardized Tests, Scores, Rewards
A Class of Multidimensional IRT Models for Testing Unidimensionality and Clustering Items
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Bartolucci, Francesco – Psychometrika, 2007
We illustrate a class of multidimensional item response theory models in which the items are allowed to have different discriminating power and the latent traits are represented through a vector having a discrete distribution. We also show how the hypothesis of unidimensionality may be tested against a specific bidimensional alternative by using a…
Descriptors: Simulation, National Competency Tests, Item Response Theory, Models