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Hongwen Guo; Matthew S. Johnson; Daniel F. McCaffrey; Lixong Gu – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
The multistage testing (MST) design has been gaining attention and popularity in educational assessments. For testing programs that have small test-taker samples, it is challenging to calibrate new items to replenish the item pool. In the current research, we used the item pools from an operational MST program to illustrate how research studies…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Construction, Sample Size, Scaling
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Koretz, Daniel – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1995
Studies of the mathematics assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are summarized. One study found that omit rates for NAEP test items were higher for African Americans and Hispanics than for whites. The other found that descriptions and examples for the 1992 mathematics achievement levels were misleading. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic Americans