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Quality Practices of Alternative Education Learning Environments as Represented in Virginia's Individual Student Alternative Education Plan (ISAEP) Program
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Feltman, Doris R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to analyze a prominent alternative education practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia through an analysis of the Virginia Department of Education's Individual Student Alternative Education Plan (ISAEP) program and the alternative education environment it provides. This was a descriptive study using non-experimental…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, State Programs, Program Effectiveness, Institutional Characteristics
Maintenance of Vertical Scales under Conditions of Item Parameter Drift and Rasch Model-Data Misfit
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O'Neil, Timothy P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With scant research to draw upon with respect to the maintenance of vertical scales over time, decisions around the creation and performance of vertical scales over time necessarily suffers due to the lack of information. Undetected item parameter drift (IPD) presents one of the greatest threats to scale maintenance within an item response theory…
Descriptors: Scaling, Measures (Individuals), Item Response Theory, Educational Assessment
Participatory Formative Assessment in an Environment of High-Stakes Testing: An Autoethnography
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Johnson, Karin Pogna – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to describe my experiences as a campus principal in facilitating the use of participatory formative assessment (PFA) in an environment of accountability and high-stakes testing. The methodology I employed was autoethnography (Chang, 2008; Ellis, 2004; Reed-Danahay, 1997; Stinson, 2009). I kept journals over a period…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Achievement Tests