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Rao, Vasanthi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 1997, based on the amendments to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all states were faced with a statutory requirement to develop and implement alternate assessments for students with disabilities unable to participate in the statewide large-scale assessment. States were given the challenge of creating, implementing, and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Models
Li, Tiandong – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In large-scale assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plausible values based on Multiple Imputations (MI) have been used to estimate population characteristics for latent constructs under complex sample designs. Mislevy (1991) derived a closed-form analytic solution for a fixed-effect model in creating…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Statistical Analysis, Educational Assessment, Test Theory
Mozie-Ross, Yvette D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This exploratory study contributes to what is known about the college choice process by providing a quantitative comparative analysis to determine how high school graduates who identify teachers as influential in their choice of college differ from graduates who do not. Specifically, this study answers the following research question: How do…
Descriptors: College Choice, Grade Point Average, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis