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Reese Butterfuss; Harold Doran – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2025
Large language models are increasingly used in educational and psychological measurement activities. Their rapidly evolving sophistication and ability to detect language semantics make them viable tools to supplement subject matter experts and their reviews of large amounts of text statements, such as educational content standards. This paper…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Academic Standards, Content Analysis, Concept Mapping
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Katherine E. Castellano; Daniel F. McCaffrey; Joseph A. Martineau – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2025
Growth-to-standard models evaluate student growth against the growth needed to reach a future standard or target of interest, such as proficiency. A common growth-to-standard model involves comparing the popular Student Growth Percentile (SGP) to Adequate Growth Percentiles (AGPs). AGPs follow from an involved process based on fitting a series of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Growth Models, Student Educational Objectives, Educational Indicators
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Luecht, Richard M. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
The educational testing landscape is changing in many significant ways as evidence-based, principled assessment design (PAD) approaches are formally adopted. This article discusses the challenges and presents some score scale- and task-focused strategies for developing useful performance-level descriptors (PLDs) under a PAD approach. Details of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Academic Standards, Science Education, Educational Testing
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Zhang, Jiahui; Cogan, Leland S.; Schmidt, William H. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
This study addresses measurement issues around a standards-based content analysis of mathematics textbooks' coverage of standards for use in large-scale monitoring of standards implementation as proposed in a 2013 report by the National Research Council. An earlier study produced an exhaustive content analysis of textbooks using the 2012 Common…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Academic Standards, Mathematics Curriculum, Content Analysis
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Anderson, Daniel; Rowley, Brock; Stegenga, Sondra; Irvin, P. Shawn; Rosenberg, Joshua M. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Validity evidence based on test content is critical to meaningful interpretation of test scores. Within high-stakes testing and accountability frameworks, content-related validity evidence is typically gathered via alignment studies, with panels of experts providing qualitative judgments on the degree to which test items align with the…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Artificial Intelligence, Test Items, Vocabulary
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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Gasparian, Hovanes; Korn, Shira; Gamboa, Martin; Porter, Andrew C.; Smith, Toni; Garet, Michael S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
As the standards movement continues into its third decade, there remains a need for alignment methodologies that can be broadly applied to study instruction and policy. This article reports on a series of development efforts meant to revise the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) surveys and methods to study the implementation of new college- and…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Surveys, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Margolis, Melissa J.; Mee, Janet; Clauser, Brian E.; Winward, Marcia; Clauser, Jerome C. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2016
Evidence to support the credibility of standard setting procedures is a critical part of the validity argument for decisions made based on tests that are used for classification. One area in which there has been limited empirical study is the impact of standard setting judge selection on the resulting cut score. One important issue related to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Standard Setting (Scoring), Cutting Scores, Credibility
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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Zhou, Nan; Campbell, Shauna E. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2015
With the recent adoption of the Common Core standards in many states, there is a need for quality information about textbook alignment to standards. While there are many existing content analysis procedures, these generally have little, if any, validity or reliability evidence. One exception is the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC), which has…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Content Analysis, Textbook Evaluation
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Welsh, Megan E.; D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Kaniskan, Burcu – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2013
Standards-based progress reports (SBPRs) require teachers to grade students using the performance levels reported by state tests and are an increasingly popular report card format. They may help to increase teacher familiarity with state standards, encourage teachers to exclude nonacademic factors from grades, and/or improve communication with…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Report Cards, State Standards
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Murphy, Daniel L.; Gaertner, Matthew N. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2014
This study evaluates four growth prediction models--projection, student growth percentile, trajectory, and transition table--commonly used to forecast (and give schools credit for) middle school students' future proficiency. Analyses focused on vertically scaled summative mathematics assessments, and two performance standards conditions (high…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Achievement Gains, Middle School Students
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Porter, Andrew C.; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Zeidner, Tim; Smithson, John – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2008
This article examines the reliability of content analyses of state student achievement tests and state content standards. We use data from two states in three grades in mathematics and English language arts and reading to explore differences by state, content area, grade level, and document type. Using a generalizability framework, we find that…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Achievement Tests, State Standards, Academic Standards
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Perie, Marianne – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2008
There has been much discussion recently about why the percentage of students scoring Proficient or above varies as much as it does on state assessments across the country. However, most of these discussions center on the leniency or rigor of the cut score. Yet, the cut score is developed in a standard-setting process that depends heavily on the…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Educational Assessment, Performance, Academic Standards
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Flowers, Claudia; Wakeman, Shawnee; Browder, Diane M.; Karvonen, Meagan – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
This article describes an alignment procedure, called Links for Academic Learning (LAL), for examining the degree of alignment of alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) to grade-level content standards and instruction. Although some of the alignment criteria are similar to those used in general education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criteria, Alignment (Education), Alternative Assessment
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Karantonis, Ana; Sireci, Stephen G. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2006
The Bookmark method for setting standards on educational tests is currently one of the most popular standard-setting methods. However, research to support the method is scarce. In this report, we review the published and unpublished literature on this method as well as some seminal work in the area of evaluating standard-setting studies. Our…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Testing, Literature Reviews, Validity
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Bandalos, Deborah L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2004
Recent implementation of Nebraska's Standards-based Teacher-led Assessment and Reporting System (STARS) introduced a unique opportunity to examine the benefits and drawbacks of a teacher-led state assessment system. STARS is unique among state assessment systems in that statewide tests are replaced by locally developed assessments designed by…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Testing Programs, State Standards, Academic Standards
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