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Distortions in State Level Performance Outcomes on High Stakes Assessments
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Hornback, Joseph E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation addresses two research questions: 1. Do states misrepresent their progress on their own state assessments? 2. If states do distort their progress, are their predictors to suggest why this distortion occurs? The first research question requires that distortion be defined. For the purposes of this dissertation I calculated the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Computation, Equations (Mathematics)