ERIC Number: EJ1350153
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Publication Date: 2022-Oct
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Improving Accuracy and Stability of Aggregate Student Growth Measures Using Empirical Best Linear Prediction
Lockwood, J. R.; Castellano, Katherine E.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, v47 n5 p544-575 Oct 2022
Many states and school districts in the United States use standardized test scores to compute annual measures of student achievement progress and then use school-level averages of these growth measures for various reporting and diagnostic purposes. These aggregate growth measures can vary consequentially from year to year for the same school, complicating their use and interpretation. We develop a method, based on the theory of empirical best linear prediction, to improve the accuracy and stability of aggregate growth measures by pooling information across grades, years, and tested subjects for individual schools. We demonstrate the performance of the method using both simulation and application to 6 years of annual growth measures from a large, urban school district. We provide code for implementing the method in the package "schoolgrowth" for the R environment.
Descriptors: Accuracy, Prediction, Programming Languages, Standardized Tests, Scores, Academic Achievement, Measurement Techniques, Urban Schools, School Districts, Longitudinal Studies, Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, English, Language Arts, Mathematics Achievement, Accountability, Monte Carlo Methods, Kindergarten
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Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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