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Using Cluster Analysis To Facilitate Standard Setting.
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Sireci, Stephen G.; Robin, Frederic; Patelis, Thanos – Applied Measurement in Education, 1999
Presents a procedure for standard setting that involves the cluster analysis of test takers to discover examinee groups that are useful for envisioning marginally competent performance or defining borderline or contrasting groups. Illustrates use of the procedure with a statewide mathematics test, and concludes that cluster analysis is useful in…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Mathematics Tests, Standard Setting (Scoring), Standards
The Reliability of Mathematics Portfolio Scores: Lessons from the Vermont Experience.
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Klein, Stephen P.; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1995
Portfolios are the centerpiece of Vermont's statewide assessment program in mathematics. Portfolio scores in the first two years were not reliable enough to permit the reporting of student-level results, but increasing the number of readers or the number of portfolio pieces is not operationally feasible. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Tests, Performance Based Assessment
Linking Statewide Tests to the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Stability of Results.
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Linn, Robert L.; Kiplinger, Vonda L. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1995
The adequacy of linking statewide standardized test results to the National Assessment of Educational Progress by using equipercentile equating procedures was investigated using statewide mathematics data from four states. Results suggest that the linkings are not sufficiently trustworthy to make comparisons based on the tails of the distribution.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Equated Scores, Mathematics Tests