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Download full textLiu, Junhui; Brown, Terran; Chen, Jianshen; Ali, Usama; Hou, Likun; Costanzo, Kate – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2016
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a state-led consortium working to develop next-generation assessments that more accurately, compared to previous assessments, measure student progress toward college and career readiness. The PARCC assessments include both English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA/L) and…
Descriptors: Testing, Achievement Tests, Test Items, Test Bias
Somers, Marie-Andrée; Zhu, Pei; Jacob, Robin; Bloom, Howard – MDRC, 2013
In this paper, we examine the validity and precision of two nonexperimental study designs (NXDs) that can be used in educational evaluation: the comparative interrupted time series (CITS) design and the difference-in-difference (DD) design. In a CITS design, program impacts are evaluated by looking at whether the treatment group deviates from its…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Assessment, Time, Intervals
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Direct linkGraham, Sandra; Taylor, April; Hudley, Cynthia – Urban Education, 2015
A 12-week, 32-lesson afterschool intervention was conducted with third-to fifth-grade urban African American boys classified as aggressive. Grounded in attribution theory and organized around the construct of perceived responsibility in self and others, the intervention focused on increasing both social skills and academic motivation. Participants…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Aggression, Intervention
Henry, Gary T.; Smith, Adrienne A.; Kershaw, David C.; Zulli, Rebecca A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Performance-based accountability along with budget tightening has increased pressure on publicly funded organizations to develop and deliver programs that produce meaningful social benefits. As a result, there is increasing need to undertake formative evaluations that estimate preliminary program outcomes and identify promising program components…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies
Finch, Holmes; Barton, Karen; Meyer, Patrick – Educational Assessment, 2009
The No Child Left Behind act resulted in an increased reliance on large-scale standardized tests to assess the progress of individual students as well as schools. In addition, emphasis was placed on including all students in the testing programs as well as those with disabilities. As a result, the role of testing accommodations has become more…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Testing Accommodations, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests
Abedi, Jamal; Leon, Seth; Kao, Jenny C. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
This study examines performance differences between students with disabilities and students without disabilities students using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses in a high-stakes reading assessment. Results indicated that for Grade 9, many items exhibited DIF. Items that exhibited DIF were more likely to be located in the second half…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Items, Student Evaluation, Disabilities
Gable, Sara; Krull, Jennifer L.; Chang, Yiting – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The current study examines the social and behavioral development of school-age children with different histories of overweight onset. Eight thousand children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) participated. Three groups of children were identified for analysis: (1) those who were persistently overweight from…
Descriptors: Obesity, Family Characteristics, Children, Kindergarten
