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Download full textKen Ardon – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2024
This paper reviews overall student performance as well as the performance of student subgroups on the assessment system developed in response to the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 (MERA), the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). Comparing students in Massachusetts to students in the rest of the United States or against…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Test Reliability, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewedChen, Haiwen H.; von Davier, Matthias; Yamamoto, Kentaro; Kong, Nan – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
One major issue with large-scale assessments is that the respondents might give no responses to many items, resulting in less accurate estimations of both assessed abilities and item parameters. This report studies how the types of items affect the item-level nonresponse rates and how different methods of treating item-level nonresponses have an…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
