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Download full textMeyer, Robert H. – NISE Brief, 2000
This issue of NISE Brief discusses the weakness of the most commonly used educational outcome indicators--average and median test scores and proficiency-level indicators--and the advantages of value-added indicators. It offers a critique of the average test score as a measure of school and program performance as an example based on national data.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation
