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Egalite, Anna J.; Stallings, D. T.; Porter, Stephen R. – AERA Open, 2020
The North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program is a private school voucher program that provides state-funded vouchers worth up to $4,200 to eligible students entering kindergarten through 12th grade. Because the public and private school sectors administer different assessments, we recruited approximately 700 students to take a common,…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Aid, State Programs, Private Schools
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Dorsey, Windy – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2015
This convergent parallel mixed method sought to determine if the reading program increased third-grade student achievement. The research questions of the study examined the reading achievement scores of third-grade students and the effectiveness of McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders™. Significant differences were observed when a paired sample t test…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Reading Achievement, Basal Reading, Mixed Methods Research
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Williams, Valerie S. L.; Pommerich, Mary; Thissen, David – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1998
Created a developmental scale for the North Carolina End-of-Grade Mathematics Tests using a subset of identical test forms administered to adjacent grade levels with Thurstone scaling and Item Response Theory methods. Discusses differences in patterns produced. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education