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Bonett, Douglas G. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2022
The limitations of Cohen's ? are reviewed and an alternative G-index is recommended for assessing nominal-scale agreement. Maximum likelihood estimates, standard errors, and confidence intervals for a two-rater G-index are derived for one-group and two-group designs. A new G-index of agreement for multirater designs is proposed. Statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Statistical Data, Interrater Reliability, Design
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Andrew D. Ho – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
I review opportunities and threats that widely accessible Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered services present for educational statistics and measurement. Algorithmic and computational advances continue to improve approaches to item generation, scale maintenance, test security, test scoring, and score reporting. Predictable misuses of AI for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Measurement, Educational Assessment, Technology Uses in Education
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Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Low-skilled adults in literacy in English are those with skills insufficient to complete tasks requiring comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences. Low-skilled adults in numeracy in English are those who would have difficulty making calculations with whole numbers and percentages, estimating numbers or…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Literacy, Reading Skills, Adults
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Mark Bray; Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This paper examines and builds on an earlier contribution to this journal focusing on private supplementary tutoring -- widely known as shadow education -- in Francophone West and Central Africa. Drawing on wider literature about research methods in this domain, it examines the basis for the numerical estimates presented in the original article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Supplementary Education, Private Education
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Derek T. M. Daskalakes – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2023
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) (IDEIA) requires practitioners to use educational evaluations to assess students in K-12 schools that are suspected of having a disability. The resulting data provides the basis for determining whether students qualify for special education services, their precise educational…
Descriptors: Special Education, Individualized Education Programs, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Students with Disabilities
Anne Wicks; Amanda Wirtz – George W. Bush Institute, 2024
Determining whether a state's young people are on track for a life of opportunity is a difficult task for governors and state leaders. States can be both awash in data and unable to easily access and use that data to inform policy. State longitudinal data systems that meaningfully connect workforce, higher education, K-12, and early childhood…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Data Analysis, Learning Analytics, Information Systems