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Re-Examining Exit Exams: New Findings from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
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Shuster, Kate – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Using the nationally representative, cohort-based data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02), this study employs multiple regression to examine the effects of exit exams on student achievement and school completion. This study finds that exit exams as a whole do not have substantial effects on student achievement in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests
NM State Profile. New Mexico: New Mexico High School Competency Examination (NMHSCE)
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Center on Education Policy, 2010
This paper provides information about New Mexico High School Competency Examination (NMHSCE), a minimum competency test. Its purpose is to meet a state mandate. It will be replaced by the Grade 11 Standards Based Assessment/High School Graduation Assessment (SBA/HSGA) in spring 2011 as the state's high school exit exam. The NMHSCE was administered…
Descriptors: High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing, Exit Examinations, Minimum Competencies
Read-Aloud Accommodation: Effects on Multiple-Choice Reading and Math Items. Technical Report.
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Bielinski, John; Thurlow, Martha; Ysseldyke, James; Freidebach, Jim; Freidebach, Melodie – 2001
One of the most prevalent and controversial accommodations for students with disabilities is an audio presentation of written test material, the "read-aloud" accommodation. This study used test administration data from the Missouri Assessment Program to examine effects of using the read-aloud accommodation on the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Item Bias
Local Assessment Responses to a State-Mandated Minimum-Competency Testing Program: Benefits and Drawbacks.
Ferrara, Steven; And Others – 1988
A study was undertaken to describe assessment activities of four school districts in Maryland (Washington, Cecil, Montgomery, and Charles Counties) designed to parallel a state-mandated competency-testing program required for high school graduation and to report uses of scores and positive and negative impacts from assessment activities. The…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Graduation Requirements
Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills. Student Performance Results 1989-1990. Statewide and Regional Results, Volume 1.
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Student Assessment. – 1990
This report presents Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) student performance results for the 1989-90 school year. Data are aggregated and reported for the state as a whole, for various student and district demographic groupings, for school districts, and for individual campuses. Section I provides an executive summary of…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills: Administrator's Summary. Report No. 9-50899.
Riverside Publishing Co., Chicago. IL. – 1990
The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), here summarized for administrators, are intended to provide information about the skills development of individual students and about relative strengths and weaknesses of the instructional program. The ITBS represents the first comprehensive elementary school and secondary school statewide testing program in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment