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Marie Elizabeth Palano – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examines administrator perceptions of Pennsylvania's state assessment data. This study had three main purposes. The first purpose was to investigate the value and utility of state assessment data to inform decision making and the possibility of improving student achievement through the routine use of state assessment data. The second…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Use, Data Analysis, Academic Achievement
Feltman, Doris R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to analyze a prominent alternative education practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia through an analysis of the Virginia Department of Education's Individual Student Alternative Education Plan (ISAEP) program and the alternative education environment it provides. This was a descriptive study using non-experimental…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, State Programs, Program Effectiveness, Institutional Characteristics
O'Neil, Timothy P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With scant research to draw upon with respect to the maintenance of vertical scales over time, decisions around the creation and performance of vertical scales over time necessarily suffers due to the lack of information. Undetected item parameter drift (IPD) presents one of the greatest threats to scale maintenance within an item response theory…
Descriptors: Scaling, Measures (Individuals), Item Response Theory, Educational Assessment