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Download full textKenneth A. Shores; Sanford R. Student – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We use student-level administrative data from Delaware for 43,767 high school students across five 12th grade cohorts from 2017 to 2021. We apply Item Response Theory (IRT) to high school transcript data, treating courses as items and grades as ordered responses, to estimate both student transcript strength ([theta]) and course difficulty. We…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Academic Records, Course Selection (Students), Grades (Scholastic)
Measuring Grading Standards at High Schools: A Methodology and an Example. EdWorkingPaper No. 23-731
David R. Johnson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
At schools with low grading standards, students receive higher school-awarded grades across multiple courses than students with the same skills receive at schools with high grading standards. A new methodology shows grading standards vary substantially, certainly enough to affect post-secondary opportunities, across high schools in Alberta.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, High School Students, Academic Standards
