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Daniel Murphy; Sarah Quesen; Matthew Brunetti; Quintin Love – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
Categorical growth models describe examinee growth in terms of performance-level category transitions, which implies that some percentage of examinees will be misclassified. This paper introduces a new procedure for estimating the classification accuracy of categorical growth models, based on Rudner's classification accuracy index for item…
Descriptors: Classification, Growth Models, Accuracy, Performance Based Assessment
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Monroe, Scott; Cai, Li – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2015
Student growth percentiles (SGPs, Betebenner, 2009) are used to locate a student's current score in a conditional distribution based on the student's past scores. Currently, following Betebenner (2009), quantile regression (QR) is most often used operationally to estimate the SGPs. Alternatively, multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) may…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Reliability, Growth Models, Computation