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Saven, Jessica L.; Farley, Dan; Tindal, Gerald – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2013
Longitudinally modeling the growth of students with significant cognitive disabilities (SWSCDs) on alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) presents many challenges for states. The number of students in Grades 3-8 who remain in a cohort group varies over time, depending on the methods used to construct the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Intellectual Disability, Growth Models
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Stoolmiller, Michael; Biancarosa, Gina; Fien, Hank – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2013
Lack of psychometric equivalence of oral reading fluency (ORF) passages used within a grade for screening and progress monitoring has recently become an issue with calls for the use of equating methods to ensure equivalence. To investigate the nature of the nonequivalence and to guide the choice of equating method to correct for nonequivalence,…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Reading Fluency, Emergent Literacy, Psychometrics
Anderson, Patricia S. – 1986
The Council of Chief State School Officers has raised some issues pertinent to the implementation of a national project to collect statistical indicators of academic achievement and to compare them across states. The United States Department of Education shares this concern, with an emphasis on sampling schools for a school level analysis which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing