ERIC Number: ED500393
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 315
Abstractor: ERIC
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New Mexico Standards-Based Assessment Technical Report: Spring 2007 Administration
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 2007 NMSBA. The 2007 technical report contains the following information: (1) Test development; (2) Scoring procedures; (3) Summary of student performance; (4) Statistical analyses of item and test scores; (5) Scaling of the assessment and item response theory; (6) Reliability; (7) Validity; and (8) Grade 11 standard setting. Eight appendices provide additional statistical information for the spring 2007 administration: (1) Test Blueprints: (2) Item-Level Statistics; (3) Performance Level Percentages for Selected Demographic Subgroups; (4) Test Level Statistics for Selected Demographic Subgroups; (5) Inter-rater Agreement and Correlations for Constructed Response Items; (6) Scoring Tables for the 2007 NMSBA Tests; (7) Grade 11 Performance Level Descriptors; and (8) Summary of NMPED Meeting to Finalize Cutpoints for Grade 11 Assessments. (Contains 35 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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Authoring Institution: New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe.
Identifiers - Location: New Mexico
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