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Li, Dongmei; Yi, Qing; Harris, Deborah – ACT, Inc., 2017
In preparation for online administration of the ACT® test, ACT conducted studies to examine the comparability of scores between online and paper administrations, including a timing study in fall 2013, a mode comparability study in spring 2014, and a second mode comparability study in spring 2015. This report presents major findings from these…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, Comparative Analysis, Test Format
Warnapala, Yajni; Silva, Karishma – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2011
In the year 2001, the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka successfully appealed to change the method of determining the cut-off scores for university admissions from raw scores to standardized z-scores. This standardization allegedly eliminated the discrepancy caused due to the assumption of equal difficulty levels across all subjects. This…
Descriptors: College Admission, Cutting Scores, Foreign Countries, Raw Scores
Montoya, Silvia – RAND Corporation, 2010
The racial achievement gap has been at the center of the educational debate for decades in the United States. Although disparities in educational outcomes have declined in part of the 20th century, the process has stalled in this decade. For instance, in mathematics the gap in raw scores for students aged 13 has decline from 41 points in 1978 to…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Family Income, Educational Objectives, Achievement Gains
New Mexico Public Education Department, 2007
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…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Standard Setting, Measures (Individuals), Scoring
Griph, Gerald W. – New Mexico Public Education Department, 2006
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 2006 NMSBA. The 2006 technical report contains the following information: (1) Test development; (2) Scoring procedures; (3) Calibration, scaling, and equating procedures; (4) Standard setting;…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Standard Setting, Measures (Individuals), Scoring