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Linking U.S. School District Test Score Distributions to a Common Scale. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-09
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Reardon, Sean F.; Kalogrides, Demetra; Ho, Andrew D. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
There is no comprehensive database of U.S. district-level test scores that is comparable across states. We describe and evaluate a method for constructing such a database. First, we estimate linear, reliability-adjusted linking transformations from state test score scales to the scale of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). We…
Descriptors: School Districts, Scores, Statistical Distributions, Database Design
Reassessing "A Statewide Study of ECE and Non-ECE Schools on Reading Achievement, Grades 2 and 3, Based on the California Assessment Program Results."
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Hill, Richard; And Others – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
This review of a previous article (TM 503 836), concludes that: (1) the evaluation methodology was straightforward; (2) simpler data analysis would have yielded the same conclusions; and (3) exclusion of many experimental schools from data analysis and use of post hoc matching and covariance produced misleading results. (CP)
Descriptors: Bias, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Primary Education
A Statewide Study of ECE and Non-ECE Schools on Reading Achievement, Grades 2 and 3, Based on the California Assessment Program Results.
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Isaac, Stephen – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
An independent statewide study of 4,735 elementary schools, conducted after three years of the Early Childhood Education Program (ECE) in California, indicates that ECE schools have lower reading scores in grades 2 and 3 when compared to non-ECE schools. Five potential causes for this discrepancy are discussed. (CP)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Performance Factors, Primary Education