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Braun, Henry; Zhang, Jinming; Vezzu, Sailesh – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
At present, although the percentages of students with disabilities (SDs) and/or students who are English language learners (ELL) excluded from a NAEP administration are reported, no statistical adjustment is made for these excluded students in the calculation of NAEP results. However, the exclusion rates for both SD and ELL students vary…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Computation, Disabilities, English Language Learners
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Antal, Tamás – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
Full account of the latent regression model for the National Assessment of Educational Progress is given. The treatment includes derivation of the EM algorithm, Newton-Raphson method, and the asymptotic standard errors. The paper also features the use of the adaptive Gauss-Hermite numerical integration method as a basic tool to evaluate…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Item Response Theory, National Competency Tests, Evaluation Methods