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Direct linkHornback, 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)
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Download full textBosworth, Ryan; Li, Hao – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
In an effort to better understand aggregate patterns in the way elementary school students are assigned to classes, we conduct a careful analysis of observed classroom assignment outcomes in the 5th grade in North Carolina elementary schools. First, we model the probability that a pair of students are classmates as a function of the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Elementary School Students, Student Characteristics
