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Castellano, Katherine Elizabeth; Ho, Andrew Dean – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Regression methods can locate student test scores in a conditional distribution, given past scores. This article contrasts and clarifies two approaches to describing these locations in terms of readily interpretable percentile ranks or "conditional status percentile ranks." The first is Betebenner's quantile regression approach that results in…
Descriptors: Scores, Students, Academic Achievement, Least Squares Statistics
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Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
Person-fit assessment may help the researcher to obtain additional information regarding the answering behavior of persons. Although several researchers examined person fit, there is a lack of research on person-fit assessment for mixed-format tests. In this article, the lz statistic and the ?2 statistic, both of which have been used for tests…
Descriptors: Test Format, Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics
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Karl, Andrew T.; Yang, Yan; Lohr, Sharon L. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Value-added models have been widely used to assess the contributions of individual teachers and schools to students' academic growth based on longitudinal student achievement outcomes. There is concern, however, that ignoring the presence of missing values, which are common in longitudinal studies, can bias teachers' value-added scores.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains