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Download full textFahle, Erin; Reardon, Sean – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Describing the variation in test scores between and within school districts is critical for: (1) for policy-related and descriptive work that investigates the sorting of students among districts and the differential effectiveness of those districts; and (2) for methodological work planning future experiments or interventions. Intraclass…
Descriptors: School Districts, Scores, Comparative Analysis, School Effectiveness
Peer reviewedTate, Richard L. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1995
Robustness of the school-level item response theoretic (IRT) model to violations of distributional assumptions was studied in a computer simulation. In situations where school-level precision might be acceptable for real school comparisons, expected a posteriori estimates of school ability were robust over a range of violations and conditions.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory
