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Xu, Xueli; von Davier, Matthias – Educational Testing Service, 2010
One of the major objectives of large-scale educational surveys is reporting trends in academic achievement. For this purpose, a substantial number of items are carried from one assessment cycle to the next. The linking process that places academic abilities measured in different assessments on a common scale is usually based on a concurrent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Trend Analysis, Computation, Educational Assessment
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Braun, Henry; Qian, Jiahe – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This report describes the derivation and evaluation of a method for comparing the performance standards for public school students set by different states. It is based on an approach proposed by McLaughlin and associates, which constituted an innovative attempt to resolve the confusion and concern that occurs when very different proportions of…
Descriptors: State Standards, Comparative Analysis, Public Schools, National Competency Tests
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Oranje, Andreas; Freund, David; Lin, Mei-jang; Tang, Yuxin – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
In this paper, a data perturbation method for minimizing the possibility of disclosure of participants' identities on a survey is described in the context of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The method distinguishes itself from most approaches because of the presence of cognitive tasks. Hence, a data edit should have minimal…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Risk, National Competency Tests, Data Analysis
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Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002
By the spring of 2000, forty states had begun using student test scores to rate school performance. Twenty states have gone a step further and are attaching explicit monetary rewards or sanctions to a school's test performance. In this paper, the authors focus on accountability programs in which states measure the effectiveness of individual…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Accountability, Scores, Risk