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Download full textKane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – 2001
A growing number of states are using annual school-level test scores as part of their school accountability systems. This paper highlights an under-appreciated weakness of that approach, the imprecision of school-level test score means, and proposes a method for discerning signal from noise in annual school report cards. Using methods developed in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bayesian Statistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques
