ERIC Number: ED500392
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 319
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New Mexico Standards Based Assessment (NMSBA) Technical Report: 2006 Spring Administration
Griph, Gerald W.
New Mexico Public Education Department
The purpose of the NMSBA technical report is to provide users and other interested parties with a general overview of and technical characteristics of the 2006 NMSBA. The 2006 technical report contains the following information: (1) Test development; (2) Scoring procedures; (3) Calibration, scaling, and equating procedures; (4) Standard setting; (5) Reliability; and (6) Validity. Six appendices provide additional statistical information for the spring 2006 administration: (1) Number of items and points addressing each of the New Mexico Standards and Benchmarks: (2) Raw score to scale score conversion tables and standard errors of measurement; (3) Raw and scale score frequency distributions; (4) Performance level percentages by subgroups; (5) Inter-rater reliability information; and (6) Classical test theory item statistics and item response theory model parameter estimates with fit indices. (Contains 5 figures and 185 tables.) [Prepared by Harcourt Assessment, Inc for the New Mexico Public Education Department.]
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Standard Setting, Measures (Individuals), Scoring, Raw Scores, Item Response Theory, Academic Standards, Test Construction, Computation, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Error of Measurement, Test Items, Goodness of Fit, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Spanish, English, Psychometrics, Public Education, Student Evaluation, Cutting Scores
New Mexico Public Education Department. 300 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, NM 87501-2786. Tel: 505-827-5800; Web site: http://www.ped.state.nm.us/
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Mexico
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