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Rhode Island Department of Education, 2017
Rhode Island's School Accountability system is in a period of transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The accountability data released October 2017 is based on the 2016-17 administration of the PARCC assessment. Results from the Multi-State Alternate Assessment in ELA/literacy and mathematics are also included. The results of this…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Policy, Educational Policy, Federal Legislation
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Wang, Wen-Chung; Huang, Sheng-Yun – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
The one-parameter logistic model with ability-based guessing (1PL-AG) has been recently developed to account for effect of ability on guessing behavior in multiple-choice items. In this study, the authors developed algorithms for computerized classification testing under the 1PL-AG and conducted a series of simulations to evaluate their…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Classification, Item Analysis, Probability
Anderson, Daniel; Park, Bitnara Jasmine; Irvin, P. Shawn; Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2011
Within a response to intervention (RTI) framework, students are typically identified as "academically at-risk" if they score below a specified cut-point on a benchmark screener. Students identified as at-risk are provided with an intervention intended to increase achievement. In the following technical report, we describe a process for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Diagnostic Tests, Response to Intervention, At Risk Students
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Yi, Hyun Sook; Kim, Seonghoon; Brennan, Robert L. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2007
Large-scale testing programs involving classification decisions typically have multiple forms available and conduct equating to ensure cut-score comparability across forms. A test developer might be interested in the extent to which an examinee who happens to take a particular form would have a consistent classification decision if he or she had…
Descriptors: Classification, Reliability, Indexes, Computation
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Greenspan, Stephen – Exceptionality, 2006
Although there have always been people considered to have mental retardation (MR), the category has proven surprisingly difficult to define adequately. This is because it includes a subcategory of mild MR whose members are part of a larger population of marginally competent people, some of whom may be considered to have other forms of disability…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Multiple Intelligences, Classification, Cutting Scores
Loomis, Susan Cooper – 2000
This paper describes the feedback included in operational achievement level setting (ALS) procedures for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). It does not describe the feedback form field trials, pilot studies, or other research studies related to the NAEP. The NAEP ALS process includes three rounds of item-by-item ratings, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Civics, Classification