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| Academic Therapy | 1 |
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| Berk, Ronald A. | 1 |
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Berk, Ronald A. – Academic Therapy, 1981
The author discusses the dangers of using grade equivalency scores to identify learning disabled students. Deficiencies include that grade equivalents invite misleading interpretations, assume that the learning rate is constant throughout the school year, and exaggerate the significance of small differences in performance. Standard scores are…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Grade Equivalent Scores, Learning Disabilities, Scoring
