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Download full textWest Virginia Department of Education, 2024
To ensure each county board of education provides a thorough and efficient education for its students, the West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) annually reviews county scorecards and efficiency profiles provided by the Office of Accountability. County statuses are reviewed and determined based on multiple measures of student performance and…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), County School Districts
Sinclair, Andrea L., Ed.; Thacker, Arthur, Ed. – Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), 2019
These are the appendices for the technical report, "An Investigation of the Comparability of Commission-Approved Teaching Performance Assessment Models." California's Commission on Teacher Credentialing (Commission) requires all programs of preliminary multiple and single subject teacher preparation to use a Commission-approved Teaching…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Models, Scoring Rubrics
Peer reviewedRegional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2024
These are the appendixes for the report, "Strengthening the Pennsylvania School Climate Survey to Inform School Decisionmaking." This study analyzed Pennsylvania School Climate Survey data from students and staff in the 2021/22 school year to assess the validity and reliability of the elementary school student version of the survey;…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Surveys, Decision Making, School Personnel
Tomkowicz, Joanna; Kim, Dong-In; Wan, Ping – Online Submission, 2022
In this study we evaluated the stability of item parameters and student scores, using the pre-equated (pre-pandemic) parameters from Spring 2019 and post-equated (post-pandemic) parameters from Spring 2021 in two calibration and equating designs related to item parameter treatment: re-estimating all anchor parameters (Design 1) and holding the…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Test Items, Evaluation Methods, Pandemics
Nebraska Department of Education, 2018
The 2018 Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) Summative technical report documents the processes and procedures implemented to support the Spring 2018 NSCAS Summative English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science assessments by NWEA under the supervision of the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE). The technical report…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Language Tests, English, Mathematics Tests
Egan, Laura; Tang, Judy H.; Ferraro, David; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at grades 4 and 8, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student achievement. TIMSS has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Provasnik, Stephen; Dogan, Enis; Erberber, Ebru; Zheng, Xiaying – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
Large-scale assessment programs, such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), employ item response theory (IRT) and marginal estimation methods to estimate student proficiency in specific subjects such as mathematics, science, or reading. Each of these…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Academic Achievement, Item Response Theory
Ben Seipel; Sarah E. Carlson; Virginia Clinton-Lisell; Mark L. Davison; Patrick C. Kennedy – Grantee Submission, 2022
Originally designed for students in Grades 3 through 5, MOCCA (formerly the Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment), identifies students who struggle with comprehension, and helps uncover why they struggle. There are many reasons why students might not comprehend what they read. They may struggle with decoding, or reading words…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Reading Tests
Nebraska Department of Education, 2021
This technical report documents the processes and procedures implemented to support the Spring 2021 Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) Phase I Pilot in English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science assessments by NWEA® under the supervision of the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE). The technical report shows how the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Standard Setting, English, Language Arts
Nebraska Department of Education, 2022
In Winter 2021-2022, the Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) assessments are administered in ELA and mathematics in Grades 3-8. In Spring 2021-2022, the NSCAS assessments are administered in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in Grades 3-8 and in science in Grades 5 and 8. The purposes of the NSCAS assessments are to…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Student Centered Learning, Mathematics Tests
Herget, Debbie; Dalton, Ben; Kinney, Saki; Smith, W. Zachary; Wilson, David; Rogers, Jim – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international comparative study of student performance in reading literacy at the fourth grade. PIRLS 2016 marks the fourth iteration of the study, which has been conducted every 5 years since 2001. New to the PIRLS assessment in 2016, ePIRLS provides a computer-based extension to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries
Nebraska Department of Education, 2020
The Spring 2020 Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) General Summative testing was cancelled due to COVID-19. This technical report documents the processes and procedures that had been implemented to support the Spring 2020 assessments prior to the cancellation. The following sections are presented in this technical report: (1)…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests
Nebraska Department of Education, 2023
In Fall and Winter 2022-2023, the NSCAS assessments were administered in ELA and mathematics for grades 3-8. In Spring 2022-2023, the NSCAS assessments were administered in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and in science for grades 5 and 8. The purposes of the NSCAS assessments are to measure and report Nebraska students'…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Student Centered Learning, Mathematics Tests
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2016
Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is committed to providing partners with useful tools to help make inferences from Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) interim assessment scores. One important tool is the concordance table between MAP and state summative assessments. Concordance tables have been used for decades to relate scores on…
Descriptors: Tables (Data), Benchmarking, Scoring Formulas, Scores
Nebraska Department of Education, 2019
This technical report documents the processes and procedures implemented to support the Spring 2019 Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) General Summative English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science assessments by NWEA® under the supervision of the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE). The technical report shows how the…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Summative Evaluation, Mathematics Tests
