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Download full textKolstad, Andrew – 1990
Use of clustering methods with data from the 1987 High School Transcript (HST) component of the 1986 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is discussed in an attempt to persuade data analysts and researchers that they should be interested in problems traditionally turned over to samplers. Nearly all surveys used by the National Center…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Educational Assessment, Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics)
Hedges, Larry V.; Vevea, Jack L. – 1997
This study investigates the amount of uncertainty added to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) estimates by equating error under both ideal and less than ideal circumstances. Data from past administrations are used to guide simulations of various equating designs and error due to equating is estimated empirically. The design…
Descriptors: Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Error of Measurement
Spencer, Bruce D. – 1986
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) currently tests seventeen-year-old students enrolled in public and private secondary schools, but it does not test "out-of-school" seventeen-year-olds who have either graduated or dropped out. Estimating that one of five seventeen-year-olds is out of school, the interpretability of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Dropouts, Educational Assessment
