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Using Performance Standards to Link Statewide Achievement Results to NAEP.
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Waltman, Kristie K. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1997
A socially moderated link was established between statewide achievement results and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) by using the same achievement level descriptions in an Iowa Test of Basic Skills standard-setting and an NAEP standard setting study. A statistically moderated link was established through an equipercentile…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Equated Scores, National Surveys
Evaluating and Predicting Survey Efficiency Using Generalizability Theory.
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Johnson, Sandra; Bell, John F. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1985
The assessment framework underlying a science performance monitoring program is process-oriented and intended to appeal to generalizability theory for a suitable estimation paradigm. Preliminary applications are described. Results suggest that computerized question-banking, domain-sampling of questions, and generalizablity theory together provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries
Integrating Cognitive and Psychometric Models to Measure Document Literacy.
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Sheehan, Kathleen; Mislevy, Robert J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1990
The 63 items on skills in acquiring and using information from written documents contained in the Survey of Young Adult Literacy in the 1985 National Assessment of Educational Progress are analyzed. The analyses are based on a qualitative cognitive model and an item-response theory model. (TJH)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education