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Joshua B. Gilbert – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
When analyzing treatment effects on test scores, researchers face many choices and competing guidance for scoring tests and modeling results. This study examines the impact of scoring choices through simulation and an empirical application. Results show that estimates from multiple methods applied to the same data will vary because two-step models…
Descriptors: Scores, Statistical Bias, Statistical Inference, Scoring
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Van Norman, Ethan R. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2016
Curriculum-based measurement of oral reading (CBM-R) progress monitoring data is used to measure student response to instruction. Federal legislation permits educators to use CBM-R progress monitoring data as a basis for determining the presence of specific learning disabilities. However, decision making frameworks originally developed for CBM-R…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Curriculum Based Assessment, Investigations, Progress Monitoring
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Davies, Randall S.; Qudisat, Rasha M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
This paper summarizes results from a math intervention implemented in a high-poverty urban community. Over 7,300 students from kindergarten to 4th grade in 1 low-socioeconomic-status school district participated in the study. Students from 13 different schools (36 different classroom) participated in the treatment. Comparisons were made to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Poverty, Urban Areas