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Download full textZhang, Yanling – 2002
A study was conducted to investigate how differential item functioning (DIF) is associated with student characteristics such as gender and ethnicity for the total group and to understand the pattern and nature of existing group differences by conducting DIF analyses separately within gender and ethnicity. The research is unique in that it…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity, Item Bias
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2000
This report compares students' scores on the 2000 Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) writing assessment with the writing scores of their counterparts in 1998 and 1999. In addition, the results of a writing study are discussed briefly. Delaware students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 took the 2000 DSTP writing assessment, responding to a text-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, State Programs
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2002
To help teachers, administrators, and parents understand student performance in writing, a state-level report is prepared each year to analyze students writing scores and provide guidelines for the interpretation of the results. This report compares students scores on the 2001 Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) with scores on the 2000 DSTP…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, Scoring
PDF pending restorationDelaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2000
This report presents the results of the third administration of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP). These results are part of a long-term effort to gather data on the educational progress of Delaware students and to use the data to inform decisions about instruction. Reading, writing, and mathematics results are summarized in this report;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
PDF pending restorationDelaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2002
The results in this report, from the fifth administration of the grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 reading, mathematics, and writing portions of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP), represent an important step in Delawares efforts to educate all students to a higher level. Reading, mathematics, and writing data for grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 are…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Tests, Reading Tests
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 1999
This document contains the results of a standard setting conducted between August 2 and August 12, 1999, on the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) Mathematics, Reading, and Writing subtests at grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. At the standard setting, judges were asked to recommend only the cut point between "Below the Standard" and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Judges
