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Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Test-based accountability as well as value-added asessments and much experimental and quasi-experimental research in education rely on achievement tests to measure student skills and knowledge. Yet, we know little regarding fundamental properties of these tests, an important example being the extent of measurement error and its implications for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Error of Measurement
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McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Koretz, Daniel; Louis, Thomas A.; Hamilton, Laura – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2004
The insightful discussions by Raudenbush, Rubin, Stuart and Zanutto (RSZ) and Reckase identify important challenges for interpreting the output of VAM and for its use with test-based accountability. As these authors note, VAM are statistical models for the correlations among scores from students who share common teachers or schools during the…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Accountability, Mathematical Models, Teacher Influence