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How Should States Choose a Growth Model? Aligning Your Growth Model with Policy and Technical Values
Download full textScott Marion; Chris Domaleski; Will Lorié – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
Federal law requires that state accountability systems include "another academic indicator" for elementary and middle schools in addition to academic achievement. Nearly all states use a measure of student longitudinal growth as their other academic indicator. But how should states decide which growth model to use? The Center for…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Indicators, Federal State Relationship
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Direct linkPatterson, Leigh Cameron – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
Considerable interest lies in the growth in educational achievement that occurs over the course of a child's schooling. This paper demonstrates a simple but effective approach for the comparison of growth rates, drawing on a method first proposed some 80 years ago and applying it to data from the Australian National Assessment Program. The…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Growth Models, Psychometrics, National Competency Tests
